[210.] How may 100 be expressed with four nines?
[211.] Two shepherds, A and B, meeting on the road, began talking of the number of sheep each had, when A said to B, “Give me one of your sheep, and I will have as many as you.” “Oh, no!” replied B; “give me one of yours, and I will have as many again as you.” How many sheep had each?
A BRICK PUZZLE.
One for Builders, Contractors, &c.
[212.] Suppose the measurements of a brick to be:—Length, 9 in.; breadth, 4½ in.; depth, 3 in. How many “stretchers, headers and closures” can be cut out of one, and what would be the face area of same?
For the benefit of the uninitiated we might say that
“stretcher” = length of brick x depth
“header” = breadth "
“closure” = half-breadth "