Legs Puzzle
At the local BrainBashers Sunday School meeting, the teacher brought in some puppies.
There were 20 more children than puppies.
In the corner of the room, within the ant's nest, the number of ants was 10 times the number of children.
In total, including the teacher, the children, the puppies and the ants, there were 1440 legs in the room.
How many children attended?
Solution (Previous Puzzle):
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
The piece of text is from the original book and should read:
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
a has been represented by q.
b has been represented by r.
c has been represented by x.
d has been represented by y.
e has been represented by s.
f has been represented by u.
g has been represented by n.
h has been represented by z.
i has been represented by f.
j has been represented by a.
k has been represented by k.
l has been represented by p.
m has been represented by m.
n has been represented by w.
o has been represented by e.
p has been represented by h.
q has been represented by g.
r has been represented by l.
s has been represented by d.
t has been represented by c.
u has been represented by b.
v has been represented by o.
w has been represented by t.
x has been represented by i.
y has been represented by j.
z has been represented by v.
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