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GEORGE BIDDER.
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If the distance from Gloucester to London be 95| miles,
and I travel in a carriage, the fore-wheels of which are 4f
feet in diameter each, and the hind-wheels 5|, how many times
will the fore-wheels make more than the hind-wheels ? Ans.
8120 times.
If 37 horses cost 1137/- 12s. 8|tZ. what will one horse cost
at that rate ? Ans, 3()Z. 14s. 11 %d. and
Answered within one minute each at the Assembly Rooms,
Cheltenham, 1817.
True Copy of a Paper written and signed by R. Gwatkin,
M.A. Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Multiply 900,90u,900 by the same ? Ans. 811,622,431,
620,8 10,000.
What is the cube root of 1,178,420,165,015,625 ? Ans.
105,6'^5.
His memory appears from the following facts:—He was
asked to add three numbers consisting each of eleven figures,
which he did correctly; and about half an hour after, being
requested, he repeated the question and answer with the ut-
most readiness.
In three combs of wheat how many grains, supposing
1761 grains in a pint, 3 pints in a quart, 5 quarts in a gallon,
7 gallons in a peck, 11 pecks in a bushel, and 4 bushels in a
comb ? He answered this question: and three days after,
he was asked to repeat the question and answer, which he
did correctly, and without hesitation.
His powers of abstract reasoning will appear in his an-
swering the following questions.
A vintner sold seven dozen of sherry and twelve of claret
for 50Z. ; he sold three dozen more of sherry for 1 Ol. than of
claret for 61.; what was the price of each dozen ? Answer,
sherry 3Z. claret 2Z.
Forty-one persons, men, women, and children, spent
among them 40s. of which each man paid 4s. each woman
7
If the distance from Gloucester to London be 95| miles,
and I travel in a carriage, the fore-wheels of which are 4f
feet in diameter each, and the hind-wheels 5|, how many times
will the fore-wheels make more than the hind-wheels ? Ans.
8120 times.
If 37 horses cost 1137/- 12s. 8|tZ. what will one horse cost
at that rate ? Ans, 3()Z. 14s. 11 %d. and
Answered within one minute each at the Assembly Rooms,
Cheltenham, 1817.
True Copy of a Paper written and signed by R. Gwatkin,
M.A. Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Multiply 900,90u,900 by the same ? Ans. 811,622,431,
620,8 10,000.
What is the cube root of 1,178,420,165,015,625 ? Ans.
105,6'^5.
His memory appears from the following facts:—He was
asked to add three numbers consisting each of eleven figures,
which he did correctly; and about half an hour after, being
requested, he repeated the question and answer with the ut-
most readiness.
In three combs of wheat how many grains, supposing
1761 grains in a pint, 3 pints in a quart, 5 quarts in a gallon,
7 gallons in a peck, 11 pecks in a bushel, and 4 bushels in a
comb ? He answered this question: and three days after,
he was asked to repeat the question and answer, which he
did correctly, and without hesitation.
His powers of abstract reasoning will appear in his an-
swering the following questions.
A vintner sold seven dozen of sherry and twelve of claret
for 50Z. ; he sold three dozen more of sherry for 1 Ol. than of
claret for 61.; what was the price of each dozen ? Answer,
sherry 3Z. claret 2Z.
Forty-one persons, men, women, and children, spent
among them 40s. of which each man paid 4s. each woman