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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $232$
- A Pavement Puzzle
- Two square floors had to be paved with stones each $1$ foot square.
- The number of stones in both together was $2120$, but each side of one floor was $12$ feet more than each side of the other floor.
- What were the dimensions of the two floors?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $232$. -- A Pavement Puzzle
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $244$. A Pavement Puzzle