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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $15$
- Buying Turkeys
- A man bought a number of turkeys at a cost of $\pounds 60$,
- and after reserving fifteen of the birds he sold the remainder for $\pounds 54$,
- thus gaining $2 \shillings$ a head by these.
- How may turkeys did he buy?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $15$. -- Buying Turkeys
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $21$. Buying Turkeys