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Subj:.....The
Five Newsboys (S641)
From the book
"More Mathematical Puzzles
of Sam Loyd"
Edited by Martin Gardner
From: Dover Publications in 1960 |
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The
three Jones boys sold more papers than
the
two Smith boys, but how many more?
Five clever newsboys
formed a partnership and disposed
of their papers in
the following manner. Tom Smith sold
one paper more than
one quarter of the whole lot, Billy
Jones disposed of
one more than a quarter of the remainder,
Ned Smith sold one
paper more than a quarter of what was
left, and Charley
Jones disposed of one paper more than a
quarter of the remainder.
At this stage the Smith boys had
together sold just
one hundred papers more than the Jones
boys had sold.
Little Jimmy Jones, the youngest kid in
the bunch, now sold
all the papers that were left.
The three Jones boys
sold more papers than the two Smith
boys, but how many
more? |
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