THAT EGG PUZZLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2996, 6 September 1888, Page 3

THAT EGG PUZZLE.

The answer woaccrodtied i\s correct -was M, but an esteeme.;.y</h'o3pondent, who disputed our position, forwards to us the subjoined opinions of

'/: ftUan Francisco paper which supports /his contention. It will bo seen that : even in the Pacific. Slope the puzzle ; has occasioned much diversity of opinion. •• We, however, stand by 24. . If one and a half hens lay one and a half, eggs in one and a half days, one hwilljay as many eggs in one and 'aTralf days, as three halves is contained times in'one and a half, or one onehen layone egg in one and ijlwdays, sho would lay as . many eggs in one day as one and ahalf is contained times in one, or twothirds of an egg. Six liens would lay six limes two-thirds, or four eggs in one day,.and in seven days they would lay seven times four, or 28 eggs Tliis is the correct answer, which

is also obtained by compound proportion, and a Chicago man is so confident of its correctness that he is willing to give one dollar for each egg over 28 which can be laid with the above Conditions as a basis. It has been solved by the professors of mathematics in four of our prominent Eastern colleges—viz,, Tuft's, the School of Technology, Yale, and Harvard, all of whom obtain 28 as tho correct answer.—Exoliange.