CORNER FOR THE INGENIOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 1249, 13 May 1870, Page 2

CORNER FOR THE INGENIOUS.

3. QxrESTiOJr. — The Pyramid of Cheops occupies a square of 746 feet, and its perpendicular height 461 feet Supposing the building to be solid, how many cubic yards will it contain, and what will he the length of a line stretched from one of the angles of the base to the summit ? ■ 4. Puzzle — I. am a word of two syllables. My first is a Scottish river ; my second is an instrument for operating on a machine common in every house ; and my whole is a beast of burden. N.B. — Answers to the above received up till May 24th. Solution of Question No. 1. Let x = the value of the estate, . x Then 100 = Ist son's share -■■■■•'-- 2 x !- 100 = 2nd do 3 ■ .-v .--■■.-■ X '•■ ■ - . 100 = 3rd do .■■:.; 4 •■.-..■ . •.-■:. x : : • : 100 = 4th do 5 As the whole is equal to its parts, '■'■■■■':: }...■ ■ . 77x ■ ■ : .. x ==.-— 400 by addition 60 60 x = 77x — 24,000 by mult, by 60 17 x == 24,000 hy transposition 24,000 2 x = £1411 15s 3id— ..."; -.. ; • 17 17 Answer to Conundrum No. 2. '''" 1, Inkermann ; 2, Naples ; 3, Volga; 4, Elbe ; 5, Rhine; 6, Calcutta; 7, Asia; 8, Rhone ; 9, Greece ; 10, Ireland ; 11, London ; 12, Lisbon. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. L Qttestion. — Rory (Caledonian School), 13 9 ' ~£l4ll —; E. T., £1411 15s 3d— ; T. B. (In- , : 7:■ 17 17 rercargill Grammar School), £1411 15s 3£d ; One of the Old Identity, £1411 15s 3d two farthings. 2. Coshndbttm. ; — Correct answers from R. Dummigan, VV. Wesney, John Wesney, Who's Afear'd, An old" Boy of Forty, John Aldred, • Riverton, 'A G'eniass. (This is the only badly- ■ ■written and disrespectful answer received. It is ■ plainly the production of a geniass, as he calls ; himself — an animal for which the puzzle was never intended, and from which nothing could be • expected but a bray.)