Subj:.....Jack
Sprat And His Wife (S647)
From the book
"More Mathematical Puzzles
of Sam Loyd"
Edited by Martin Gardner
From: Dover Publications in 1960 |
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from
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How
long did it take Jack to run the full half mile?
Jack and Jill went
up the hill,
To fetch a
pail of water;
Jack fell down, and
broke his crown,
And Jill came
tumbling after.
Then up Jack got and
off did trot,
As fast as
he could caper,
To old Dame Dob,
who patched his nob
With vinegar
and brown paper.
Here is a pretty puzzle
from Mother Goose. Jack and Jill
raced up and down
a hill that was 440 yards from bottom
to top. Jack
got to the top first, immediately started
down, and met Jill
20 yards from the top. He beat Jill
to the bottom of
the hill by half a minute.
The record of the
race is complicated by the fact that
both runners were
able to run downhill one-half again
faster than they
ran up. The puzzle is to figure out
how long it took
Jack to run the full half mile of 880
yards. |
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