If the walnut monkey had stopped to help the other, and they had eaten filberts at equal rates, they would have escaped in 21⁄4 minutes.
110.
The value of the cheque, for which the cashier paid by mistake pounds for shillings, was £5, 11s. 6d. The receiver to whom £11, 5s. 6d. was handed, spent half-a-crown, and then found that he had left £11, 3s., just twice the amount of the original cheque.
111.
The number 14 can be made up by adding together five uneven figures thus:—11 + 1 + 1 + 1. It will be seen that although only four numbers are used, 11 is made up of two figures.
Here is another, and quite a curious solution, 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4, and with another 1 we can make up 14!