J.A.H.HUNTER

ENTERTAINING

MATHEMATICAL TEASERS

"All too many people leave school hating math but don't blame the subject …Math can be fun."

J.A.H.Hunter

With this engrossing collection of easier mathematical teasers, J. A. H. Hunter sets out to prove that math can be fun. The famous puzzle-maker challenges readers to employ simple mathematical thinking to solve intriguing, riddle-like problems that involve familiar situations and quantities.

Test your puzzle-solving ability with amusing bafflers like these:

	A LITTLE OLD LADY

	"You want my age?", said Auntie Liz.
	"You shouldn't ask, but here it is,
	You switch Its digits: that will show
	Just half my age ten years ago."
	The clues are them, so you can see
	How old dear Auntie Liz would be.
	
	NEARLY BROKE

	"Let's have two dollars, " Jill begged.  "I’ll 
    	pay it back Friday for sure. "
	Jack emptied his pocket.  "I don't have that much. 
	There's all I've got, just pennies and dimes.
	If the dimes were nickels and the pennies quarters, 
	I'd have one dollar more than I've got.
	How much did he have?

Another 158 enjoyable math teasers like the two above, plus 40 alphametics (the author's own unique math cryptograms), round out this collection. They are accessible to a wide audience of puzzle solvers, including mathematically enthusiastic junior- and senior-high-school students, and are fully discussed in complete solution-and-answer chapters following each section. Math, not for math's sake, but for recreation; these puzzles are sure to provide hours of mathematically mind-stretching entertainment.

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