Brain Workers
(Sent in by Lilian Drake, care R. A. Drake, Apongat Place ten matches in a row. Take away one and leave ten. Answer: Print the word ten with the remaining ITlcltdlOS Place six matches in a row. add five and make nine. Answer: Print the word nine with the matches. From forty-five take forty-five and leave forty-five. Answer: The figures one to nine inclusive add up to fortyfive. Write them thus: — 987654321 equal 45 123456789 equal 45 864197532 equal 45 Can you take one from nineteen and leave twenty? Answer: You can if you make Roman numerals. Work these sums and notice the answers; — 15873 x 7—all ones, 31746 x 7—all twos. 47619 x 7—all threes. 63492 x 7—all fours. 79365 x 7—all fives. 95238 x 7—all sixes. 126984 x 7—all eights. 142857 x 7—all nines. A man six feet high stands in the sunlight near a telegraph pole 30ft. high, and casts a shadow of 9ft How long is the shadow of the pole? Answer: 45 feet. . If one horse can jump a hurdle 811 high, how high can eight horses jump? 64 feet? No —only eight! A train leaves Auckland at 7.45 p.m. and travels at the rate of 30 miles
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1938, Page 3
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