PROBLEM FOR PRINTERS.
[152.] A book is printed in such a manner that each page contains a certain number of lines, and each line a certain number of letters. If each page contains 3 lines more, and each line 4 letters more, the number of letters in each page will be 224 more than before; but if each page contains 2 lines less, and each line 3 letters less, the number of letters in each page would be 145 less than before. Find the number of lines in each page, and the number of letters in each line.
THE INCOME TAX.
[153.] The charge on a major income is the same in amount as that on a minor one, which is 2½ per cent. of their mutual difference, but the rate imposed on the overplus of a major income is 4 per cent., so that on a composite income of the major and minor the charge would be £3 8s. Required the major and minor incomes.
“Your Money or Your Life!”
[154.] Two gentlemen, A and B, with £100 and £48 respectively, having to perform a long journey through a lonely part of the country, agree to travel together for purposes of safety; they are, however, taken unawares by a gang of bushrangers who, calling upon them to “bail up,” ease them of some of their cash. The leader of the gang was satisfied with taking twice as much from A as from B, and left to A three times as much as to B. How much was taken from each?