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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $82$
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- A certain division in an army was composed of a little over twenty thousand men, made up of five brigades.
- It was know that one third of the first brigade,
- two-sevenths of the second brigade,
- seven-twelfths of the third,
- nine-thirteenths of the fourth,
- and fifteen-twenty-seconds of the fifth brigades happened in every case to be the same number of men.
- Can you discover how many men there were in every brigade?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: $82$. -- Army Figures
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $165$. Army Figures