FIGURE FUN
1. Here Is a square of sixteen figures i 1 *2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 All you do is to rearrange the figures so that every line of four figures adds up to 34. That is, every line across or downwards adds up to 34. 2. A man had a shelf of books. As he was moving elsewhere he decided to give them away. To his best friend he gave half the books and two over; to another friend he gave half of those that remained and two 0%-er; while to his landlady he gave half the remainder and two over. When he had done this he found he had no books left. How many; books were there on the shelf? Answers. —1. Here Is one ways—* 1 14 16 4 8 11 10 5 12 7 6 9 13 2 3 16 3. There were twenty-eight bookß on the shelf. —Copied by George Dabb (11).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23719, 27 July 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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