140.
Two steamers start together to make a trip to a far-off buoy and back. Steamer A runs all the time at 10 miles an hour. Steamer B does the passage out at 8 miles an hour, and the return at 12 miles. Will they regain port together?
141.
A golf player has two clubs mended in London. One has a new head, the other a new leather face. The head costs four times as much as the face. At St Andrews it costs five times as much, and the leather face at St Andrews is half the London price. Including a shilling for a ball he pays twice the St Andrews charges for these repairs. What is the London charge for each?
FROM TWO WRONGS TO MAKE A RIGHT
142. Two children were asked to give the total number of animals in a pasture, where sheep and cattle were grazing. They were told the numbers of sheep and of cattle, but one subtracted, and gave 100 as the answer, and the other arrived at 11,900 by multiplication. What was the correct total?