WHEN THE WAR WILL END.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1917, Page 10

WHEN THE WAR WILL END.

An interesting little problem is going the rounds just now. You are asked tlie year of your birth, {he year of your marriage, your age, and the number of years .married. . You add them together,'divide by two, and you get the year in which the war will end! Here is an example: Bom 1850 Married .. 1872 Age «7 Years married 46 Added together you get 3834 And divided by 2 you get 1917, As the answer is always 1917, whoever tries the problem, you get a result which pleases everybody. Why is the answer 1917? The explanation is quite simple. What you do is to add the year in which you were Born (18oO) to your age (07), and that naturally produces 1S17; and then the year in which you were married (1572) to tho number of years married (45) which also produces MM7. All you have done, therefore is to add together two totals of 1917, and divided them by two. There is just ono snag about tnis problem. It only works if your birthday and marriage anniversary have already passed for this year. If they are still to come you must reckon your age next birthday, and the number of years you have been married when the next anniversary arrives.