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A short time ago I received an interesting communication from the
British chaplain at Meiktila, Upper Burma, in which my correspondent
informed me that he had found some amusement on board ship on his way
out in trying to solve this little poser.
If he has a plantation of forty-nine trees, planted in the form of a
square as shown in the accompanying illustration, he wishes to know how
he may cut down twenty-seven of the trees so that the twenty-two left
standing shall form as many rows as possible with four trees in every
row.
Of course there may not be more than four trees in any row.