146. In a cricket match the scores in each successive innings are a quarter less than in the preceding innings. The match was played out, and the side that went in first won by fifty runs. What was the complete score?
HOW HIGH CAN YOU THROW?
147. A boy throws a cricket ball vertically upwards, and catches it as it falls just five seconds later. How high from his hands does the ball go?
MEASURE THE CARPET
148. It may be said of a section of the gigantic carpet at Olympia that had it been 5 feet broader and 4 feet longer it would have contained 116 more feet; but if 4 feet broader and 5 longer the increase would have been but 113 feet. What were its actual breadth and length?
149.
In estimating the cost of a hundred similar articles, the mistake was made of reading pounds for shillings and shillings for pence in each case, and under these conditions the estimated cost was £212 18s. 4d. in excess of the real cost. What was the true cost of the articles?