Teacher: “Johnny, where is the North Pole?”
Johnny: “I don’t know.”
Teacher: “Don’t know where the North Pole is?”
Johnny: “When Franklin, Nansen and Captain Andrée hunted for it and
couldn’t find it, how am I to know where it is?”
169. For a loan of 2,500,000, 4½ per cent. per annum is paid by
a mining company whose capital is £4,900,000. The working expenses
constitute 52 per cent. of the gross receipts, which amount in the
year to £965,000, and the directors set apart £44,450 as a reserve
fund. What yearly dividend do the shareholders receive?
170. If a monkey climbs a greasy pole 10 ft. high, ascending 1 ft. with
each movement of his arms, and slipping back 6 in. after each advance;
how many movements would he have to make, to touch the top, and what
height would he have climbed in all?
171. Find two numbers whose G.C.M. is 179, L.C.M. 56385, and
difference 10382.
172. What is the difference between twenty four-quart bottles, and
four and twenty quart bottles?