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An Arithmetical Toast. “Here’s an addition to your wages. Here’s a subtraction from your wants and miseries. Here’s a multiplication of your joys and happiness. Here’s a division amongst your enemies. Here’s a reduction of your hours of labour. And here’s a hope that you’ll all be able to practice and take interest in “THE PUZZLE KING.”
Answers.
- [(1)] 12,111.
- [(2)] 24s.
- [(3)] 18.
- [(4)] He lost £13 6s. 8d.
- [(5)]
- 485
- 463
- 475
- 465
- 461
- 467
- 487
- 473
- 483
- 477
- 457
- 471
- 459
- 481
- 469
- 479
[(6)] [See No. 225.]- [(7)] £30.
- [(8)] 675 springs.
- [(9)]
- [(10)] Suppose a man and woman to marry, the man to have had a son by a former marriage (the gentleman who leaves the money); also the woman has a daughter by a former marriage. This son and daughter get married, and have a son. This is the scheme of kindred, and answers the conditions of the paradox.
- [(11)] 4d. There were three of them—grandfather, father, and son.
- [(12)] The total score was 240. The 1st player scored 30; the 2nd and 3rd, 24 each; the 4th, 5th, and 6th, 12 each; the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th, 30 each; and the 11th, 6.
- [(13)] They tip the pail over horizontally; if any part of the bottom can be seen without spilling the milk it is not half full.
- [(14)] In 9 68⁄78 days.
- [(15)] The measurements given would not make a triangle.
- [(16)] 6400 soldiers.
- [(17)]
- [(18)] The LEFT BOWER.
- [(19)]
| 485 | 463 | 475 | 465 |
| 461 | 467 | 487 | 473 |
| 483 | 477 | 457 | 471 |
| 459 | 481 | 469 | 479 |
| The | first | £15 |
| " | second | 8 |
| " | third | 10 |
| " | fourth | 6 |
| The man had | £39 | |