Pictured Puzzles and Word Play / A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

by A. Cyril Pearson

No. LXXXVII.

Here is a little subtraction sum, which is not quite so simple as it appears to be:—

	miles		furlongs		rods		yards		feet		inches
	1	„	0	„	0	„	0	„	0	„	0
			7	„	39	„	5	„	1	„	5

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Try it as it stands, without reducing the distance to inches.

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