School: Béal Átha Lúibe, Cahir (roll number 9856)
- Location:
- Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ceitinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 226
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- Arithmetical Puzzles
1 A herring and a half for three halfpence how many for sixpence.
2. If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half how many eggs would then hens lay in a week.
3. A halfpenny wet and a halfpenny dry, two pence halfpenny and a halfpenny by, a halfpenny behind, and a halfpenny before two pence halfpenny and a halfpenny more.
4. How much is twice the half of one.
5. A duck in front before two ducks, a duck in the middle between two ducks, a duck in the rear behind two ducks. How many ducks were there?
6. A bag of oats weighs 8 st and half its weight, find the weight of the bag.
7. Mary is 24 yrs to-day, she is twice as old as Anne was when Mary was as old as Anne is now. Find the age of Anne.
8. A bottle and cork cost 22d. The bottle costs four times as much as the cork. Find the price of the cork.
9. If 5 and 3 make 10 How much would 6 and 8 make.
- Informant
- M.F. Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary
