Spelling Wisdom 3, ex. 47 Bicycle Salesman: need answer

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  • July 16, 2018 at 6:24 pm
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    I love the passage in SW book 3, exercise 47 about the salesman.  It is a great business lesson on not taking a check for more than the purchase amount, or at all!  The passage concludes, “…how much money did he lose altogether?”

    Please tells us the answer and why.  We can’t agree on the amount he lost!  Thanks!

    July 17, 2018 at 6:04 am
    Jordan Smith
    Keymaster

    That passage is from the public domain book Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney. Here’s a direct link to the solution on Gutenberg.

    July 17, 2018 at 12:38 pm
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    Thanks, Jordon.  The shopkeeper was adding in confusion, but now we understand better.  The thief got the bicycle costing £11 & the shopkeeper’s £10 from exchanging the check (which the salesman had to pay back), for a total loss by the salesman of £21.

    And now I am armed with a whole book of these perplexing math problems!

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