ANSWER THIS.
The following mathematical riddle is calculated to exercise our mental faculties. Try and solve it. Five men and one monkey went gathering cocoanuts, the five men to equally divide the products of the day’s work. At nightfall a camp was made round the nuts, and the men went to sleep. One man wakened up, and thinking he could not trust his companions, went to the heap, counted the nuts and took an equal fifth and hid them. There was one nut over an equal division, and this he gave to the monkey. He then went back to sleep. Another man wakened, and doubting his companions’ fairness, went to the diminished pile and took his fifth share and hid it. He found one nut over an equal division, and he also gave it to the monkey, and went back to sleep. In turn his three companions wakened, and each went to the pile, divided it into equal fives and hid'his share. In each case there was one extra nut, and each man gave it to the monkey. In the morning the partners assembled round the nuts left, and again divided it into five equal lots, and this time the remaining pile divided out equally. How many nuts were there to start with and what was each man’s total?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1030, 13 April 1912, Page 4
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219ANSWER THIS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1030, 13 April 1912, Page 4
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