ONE FOR THE PARROT
94. A bag of nuts was to be divided thus among four boys:—Dick took a quarter, and finding that there was one over when he made the division, gave it to the parrot. Tom dealt in exactly the same way with the remainder, as did Jack and Harry in their turns, each finding one nut from the reduced shares to spare for the parrot. The final remainder was equally divided among the boys, and again there was one for the bird. How many nuts, at the lowest estimate, did the bag contain?
95.
Here is an easy one:—
If five times four are thirty-three,
What will the fourth of twenty be?
96.
What fraction of a pound, added to the same fraction of a shilling, and the same fraction of a penny, will make up exactly one pound?