ARITHMETICAL AND ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEMS.
MONEY PUZZLES.
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
1.--A POST-OFFICE PERPLEXITY.
In every business of life we are occasionally perplexed by some chance
question that for the moment staggers us. I quite pitied a young lady in
a branch post-office when a gentleman entered and deposited a crown on
the counter with this request: "Please give me some twopenny stamps, six
times as many penny stamps, and make up the rest of the money in
twopence-halfpenny stamps." For a moment she seemed bewildered, then her
brain cleared, and with a smile she handed over stamps in exact
fulfilment of the order. How long would it have taken you to think it
out?
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