THE ANSWER
LAST BEACON TEASER The query was : The number of in a basket doubles every minute. One basket is full of eggs in an hour. When was the basket half full ? Now for the answer: In 59 minutes. If the basket its full) in 60 minutes, and the number of egga it contains doubleis every minute, it must have beeto half full a minute earlier, i.e. in 59 minutes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 64, 13 April 1943, Page 4
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70THE ANSWER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 64, 13 April 1943, Page 4
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