Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/15 - Sawing Logs
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $15$
- Sawing Logs
- "Your charge," said Mr. Grigsby, "was $30$ shillings for sawing up $3$ cords of wood made up of logs $3$ feet long,
- each log to be cut into pieces $1$ foot in length."
- "That is so," the man replied.
- "Well, here are $4$ cords of logs, all of the same thickness as before,
- What will your charge be for cutting them all up into similar $1$-foot lengths?"
- It is curious that they could not at once agree as to the fair price for the job.
- What does the reader think the charge ought to be?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $15$. -- Sawing Logs