6.--A CHARITABLE BEQUEST.

There are seven different ways in which the money may be distributed: 5

women and 19 men, 10 women and 16 men, 15 women and 13 men, 20 women and

10 men, 25 women and 7 men, 30 women and 4 men, and 35 women and 1 man.

But the last case must not be counted, because the condition was that

there should be "men," and a single man is not men. Therefore the answer

is six years.

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