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Do You Like a Good Problem?
Here is a good mathematical question, perhaps not wholly new, but handy to have when asked to tell, off hand, something to keep up the interest and occupy the attention of the company. Frank Smith, of Cumberland, Md., says he had a good time working it out, and he hopes others will enjoy it as much.
A, B, and C went to market to sell eggs. A took ten dozen, B thirty dozen, and C fifty dozen, B and C selling, according to agreement, at the same price that A sells his. Each sells all his eggs, and each brings home $2.75. What were the eggs sold at per dozen?
A Fifteen Problem.
Is there a school in the country in which scholars never play "tic, tac, toe"? If so, will not some one who attends it write the Table? It would be interesting to know if the simple game is not universal. Charles Kingenberg suggests the making of the double crossed lines as in the game named. Then place the figures one to nine, one in a place, and using all places and figures, so that horizontally, perpendicularly, and diagonally in both ways, the sum is fifteen.