The Archive · 1928

'THE DONKEY'S DILEMMA

To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuina DatY News."

Sim—Can any of your mathe magical readers submit a solution of the following problem:

Given a circular lawn, diameter, say, 60 yards and a donkey attached by "a rope to a post on the circomference—

Regarding the donkey's mouth as point the position of which is determined. by the length of the rope, what would require to be the length of the rope in order that the donkey could graze over exactly half and only half the area of the lawn? Tam, ete, Shanghai, March To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cuina DAILY News."

Sim—In_ answer to "Radiw problem, I offer the following If we take the length to be 25 yards, the area is too small, if PT' yards too large, The real area is then found by taking the average Length of PD and PD2 or PDL

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