MONKEY BUSINESS
| E can control fire, water, air, \X/ and electricity, and we're even having a try at controlling Hitler, but we can’t control printers or printers’ errors, so puzzling readers will perhaps excuse the mess made of the puzzle headed, not inappropriately, " And a Relapse Follows" in our last issue (December 15). In haste to put everything right, we reprint the problem, this time correctly. A long rope is passed over a pulley. It has a weight at one end and a monkey at the other. There is the same length of rope on either side, and equilibrium is maintained. The rope weighs 4 ozs. per foot. The age of the monkey and the age of the monkey’s mother together total 4 years. The weight of the monkey is as many pounds as the monkey’s, mother is years old. The monkey’s mother is twice as old as the’ monkey was when the monkey’s mother was half as old as the monkey will be when the monkey is three times as old as the monkey’s mother was when the monkey’s mother was three times as old as the monkey. The weight of the rope and ‘the weight at the end is half as much again as the difference in weight between the weight of the rope and the weight of the monkey. What was the length of the rope?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 38
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229MONKEY BUSINESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 38
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