To the Editor of the "Noara-Cuma Dary News"
Sm,—The problem quoted from "Esquire" in a letter in your Sunday issue was, Jong, said to his elder sister Mary equal to what my age in months wa birthday: "Ten times months was, When n my one sri Gays many. years as my age yen number "Te John was born on oni
Sanday before Thanksgiving, on what day of the week was Mary born?
Harry elder" to mean that Mary was necessarily "older" than John. He was therefore forced to the strained interpretation of ^months" as lunar months in order to produce a boy of 6 who must be believed capable of this tongue-twisting problem.
I think Harry has also gone partly; wrong in overlooking the use of the word "summers" instead of "years." His. solution, which gives John and Mary the same birthday, is correct as far as it goes but it is not the only one and, tory the reason just mentioned, it is probably not the one intended by the setter.
Let us see what happens when John is 21 years 6 months: say, in
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