Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-15
: auEsRI,iNsEY's Answers TO PRoBLEMs.


/ No. H-"Delta" distant from your city 90 miles.
/ Nc, 75-tunter made a good shot killing the bird
feet aud q l27 feet inches nearly from the bird,
and 81 feet nine inches from the hunter A, and
No.1s-Friend Simpson, don't cut thattree, unless
foot closer to the ground.
/ No. 1.-THE land must measure IS by co.,
Nc. 7s-A's part OF the money $il-6O; BIS Se.75'
I No. fsGOne inch remains. s ..-
Il What does Il. W. Seeds mean by the din 1nsiop |
Of the bin in ss? Are they in inches, feet. wards
This sssSsbin is Just twice as wide as it is high and
half as Aigh as il is long. - 20. 'l-i.
snd
ing the second term of the first equation read 10
times the square root instead Of twice" as in the
Innis and Winter are both wrong on No so. If
there is such 8 number. suow it. The o7Hs pro-
Robins squares seem both difficult and new to
Sammy and Innis are wrong. think, on No. g.
The water is not pyramidal in form, but spberodica
agree with Delta that the depth would be 2.5
inches. -- .---r GUERNSEY. I
/ .ysseas CHERRY GROVE, o.. June g, 1867.
Mr.. EDIToR 81 wish to call attention to No. g.
Mr.. Innis says "one at all acquainted with Geom-
would see at sVss that the 1og1d d.
and thu "sster' too. don't see it at glance and
must ask George 70 Look again: ! think demon
finding diameter of the circle is to divide e272 $40
which gives one fourth of the diameter, and the
quotient multiplied by4. gives l.254.52s inches,-|
same length as one of the sides of the square
Now, MIR. lnnis, can you see at a glance"
consequently, cannot contain many acres by some
thousands? don't doubt your ability to work the
'B. Winter has found mares nest. He says in
his solution to No. so that rs is the number, and
While. somehow. ]. make it equal only 70. Let
brother Winter review fractions. VIC. SEEDS.
| -.az COLUMBUS. O.. June 10, 1867.
| Mr.. ED1ToK:--Your Puzzler's Column of June 8
Which Is 1o
explanation Of his own PEo6 t1 s% No. So He has
tipled by itself and added to itself will make ye.
This can mean but one of two things; one is: hat
number multiplied by itself and added to ITSELF the
two results or the product and sum will make Eve.
or each of these results will make five,
must moan the former; and the square root of mi
nus is the correct and exact answer. So Bro. Dun
hams WEEKLY STATESMAN clearly belongs to me;
but if he cannot well spare it. will donate it back
4 to him.
If correctly understand No. U.s. the answers are:
tance so feet Cs distance l27 % nearly; C distance
FROM A 1858 feet nearly; CPS distance from
Answer to Problem No. 7s-A. s. Simpson will
have to cut his stump just one foot high and saw his
would say to Robin that had his No. 70 selected
to send this week. but will wait for Bro Guernsey to
crack his brain awhile on it.
/ think do not understand Guernsey's Problem
No. 80. His meaning is not as easy guessed at, as
in his grabbed radical" No. 43. His straight line
is evidently 800 feet does he to say this line is
unbroken does it form equilateral triangle or
4 only two sides of the triangle? r.f
Answer to Problem No. S7-He had 10 marbles
IL Answer to Problem No 5S is 1l3 O976 feet since
the mark goes S.424S feet (3l4l6X every revolution
which multiplied by the number of revolutions
Q2) equals lis. .0976. JOHN SoUBRIQUEr.
PROBLEM NO. 81.
Two towns-A and Bare situated 80 miles apart
on a meridian. Forty miles east of is railway
train going directly toward at the rate Of 20 miles
per hour Required the rate at which 1t is nearing
II b. = - l--l---.- - '-'---.-- DELTA.
Il =~ PROBLEM NO. 90. SIG =
i Find three numbers with these conditions Prod.
net of LIST and 3D. plus the of their squares will
n be 81 product of 1st and 3d. plus the of theil
souares equals 49, product of I'd and Sd. plus sun
j oil their squares. equals 81. l-.-e DBLTA.
II g.. sGf nc PROBLEM NO. SO.
II An upholsterer has two square carpets divided
q into SQUARE yards by the lines Of the pattern
, Now. he observes that If he subtracts from
, the number Of squares in the the smaller
: | carpet. the number Of yards in the side
of the other, the square of the remainder will ex
ceed the difference of the mum of squares in the
smaller carpet and the number of yards in its side
by ss Also the difference Of the length Of the side
Of The carpets is feet. What is the size OF eacf
' earpetf RoBIN.