WERE YOU CAUGHT?
A man has ninety yards of cloth In r single roll. He wants to divide it up into ninety lengths of one yard each. He finds that he takes three seconds to cut each length. ' How long does he take to cut the ninety pieces, . . x. ■ ' , :
Most of your friends will answer ninety times three, or 270 seconds. This, of course, is incorrect, because rhe ninety pieces are obtained by by eighty-nine cuts, just as a length..of two yards requires only one cut. Thus eighty-nine multiplied by three gives 207 seconds, the correct answer.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 23
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97WERE YOU CAUGHT? Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 23
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