TABLE TURNING
159. A square table stands on four legs, which are set at the middle point of its sides. What is the greatest weight that this table can uphold upon one of its corners?
BRIBING THE BOYS
160. Well pleased with the inspector’s report, the rector of a country parish came into his school with 99 new pennies in his pocket, and said that he would give them to the five boys in Standard VII. if they could, within an hour, show him how to divide them so that the first share should exceed the second by 3, be less than the third by 10, be greater than the fourth by 9, and less than the fifth by 16. What was the answer which would satisfy these conditions?
SHEEP-STEALING
161. Some Indian raiders carried off a third of a flock of sheep, and a third of a sheep. Another party took a fourth of what remained, and a fourth of a sheep. Others took a fifth of the rest and three-fifths of a sheep. What was the number of the full flock, if there were then 409 left?