Category: Math Puzzles

The proprietor of a small London café has given me some interesting figures.

He says that the ladies who come alone to his place for refreshment spend each on an …

A number of market women sold their various products at a certain price per pound (different in every case), and each received the same amount—2s. 2½d.

What is the greatest number of …

Four brothers—named John, William, Charles, and Thomas—had each a money-box.

The boxes were all given to them on the same day, and they at once put what money they had into them; …

Mr. Morgan G. Bloomgarten, the millionaire, known in the States as the Clam King, had, for his sins, more money than he knew what to do with. It bored him.

So he …

“This is queer,” said McCrank to his friend.

“Twopence added to twopence is fourpence, and twopence multiplied by twopence is also fourpence.” Of course, he was wrong in thinking you can multiply …

The largest sum of money that can be written in pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings, using each of the nine digits once and only once, is Pg 3£98,765, 4s. 3½d. …

It will be found that £66, 6s. 6d. equals 15,918 pence.

Now, the four 6′s added together make 24, and the figures in 15,918 also add to 24. …

‘Twas last Bank Holiday, so I’ve been told,
Some cyclists rode abroad in glorious weather.
Resting at noon within a tavern old,
They all agreed to have a feast …

A man recently bought two aeroplanes, but afterwards found that they would not answer the purpose for which he wanted them.

So he sold them for £600 each, making a loss of …

A charitable gentleman, on his way home one night, was appealed to by three needy persons in succession for assistance.

To the first person he gave one penny more than half the …