A grammar school student was set a question in an examination paper: “If 20 men reap a field in eight hours, how long will it take 15 men to reap the same field?” The student thought long and carefully before writing the answer, and when he handed in his paper this is what the examiner read: “The field having been reaped by the 20 men, could not be reaped by the-15!”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 67
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