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(#M40009165) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

How it is that when I buy yellow bananas at three shillings a bunch and the same number of red ones at four shillings a bunch I would get two more bunches for the same amount if I divided the money evenly between the yellow and red bananas?

Flower (13 years ago)

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(#M40009164) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

Here is an odd little puzzle which occurred the other day at an archery meeting.

The young lady who carried off the first prize scored exactly one hundred points. Can you figure out how many arrows she must have used to accomplish the feat?

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(#M40009163) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

A bicycle rider went a mile in three minutes with the wind, and returned in four minutes against the wind. How fast could he ride a mile if there was no wind?

Flower (13 years ago)

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(#M40009162) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

Two school children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused to straighten matters out over a circus poster, when little Priscilla, who was hinting for an invitation to the show, remarked to John; "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, "today" will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was "today" when the day before yesterday was "tomorrow"!

On what day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?

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(#M40009161) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

The five school children in couples weigh 129 pounds, 125 pounds, 124 pounds, 123 pounds, 122 pounds, 121 pounds, 120 pound, 118 pounds, 116 pounds and 114 pounds on a weighing machine. What was the weight of each one of the five little girls if taken separately?

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(#M40009160) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

Here is a famous prize problem that Sam Loyd issued in 1882, offering $1000 as a prize for the best answer showing how to arrange the seven figures and the eight "dots" .4.5.6.7.8.9.0. which would add up to 82.

Out of several million answers, only two were found to be correct.

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(#M40009159) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

While enjoying a giddy ride at the carousel Sammy propounded a puzzle which reflects much credit to his mental abilities.

"One third of the number of kids riding ahead of me, added to three-quarter of those riding behind me gives the correct number of children on this Merry-Go-Round" is the way he puts it; but it will puzzle you quite a little to tell just how many riders there were at this whirling circus.

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(#M40009158) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

What are the maximum number of grape vines that can be planted, not closer than nine feet apart, in a square plot containing one-sixteenth of an acre?

(Note: each side of this square plot would be 52 feet 2 inches)

Flower (13 years ago)

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(#M40009157) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

t appears that an ingenious or eccentric teacher being desirous of bringing together a number of older pupils into a class he was forming, offered to give a prize each day to the side of boys or girls whose combined ages would prove to be the greatest.

Well, on the first day there was only one boy and one girl in attendance, and, as the boy's age was just twice that of the girl's, the first day's prize went to the boy.

The next day the girl brought her sister to school, and it was found that their combined ages were just twice that of the boy, so the two girls divided the prize.

When school opened the next day, however, the boy had recruited one of his brothers, and it was found that the combined ages of the two boys were exactly twice as much as the ages of the two girls, so the boys carried off the honors of that day and divided the prizes between them.

The battle waxed warm and on the fourth day the two girls appeared accompanied by their elder sister; so it was then the combined ages of the three girls against the two boys, and the girls won off course, once more bringing their ages up to just twice that of the boys'. The struggle went on until the class was filled up, but as our problem does not need to go further than this point, to tell the age of that first boy, provided that the last young lady joined the class on her twenty-first birthday. Now, guess the first boy's age.

Flower (13 years ago)

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(#M40009156) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

When they started off on the great annual picnic every wagon in town was pressed into service.

Half way to the picnic ground ten wagons broke down, so it was necessary for each of the remaining wagons to carry one more person.

When they started for home it was discovered that fifteen more wagons were out of commission, so on the return trip there were three persons more in each wagon than when they started out in the morning.

Now who can tell how many people attended the great annual picnic?

Flower (13 years ago)

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