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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1950)
amies j ' SOLVING MYSTERY NUMBERS By Attred V. Block OUFPOSE that whiia you art making complicated computations, water, milk or Ink la spilled over jrotur figures and obliterate some of them. Ton can restore the complete equations even though only a few remain. Mathematician have discovered the challenge of those "restorations" and have $een composing Incomplete compu tation and also ciphered computations for many years. They offer pleasant in tellectual exercises. Take, for example, the following very instructive Incomplete division (in which each dot represents a numeral or digit): uree-cigit figure. Bald numeral must therefore be greater than "8" and can only be "9." The same reasoning applies for the sixth Una, which means that the last numeral of! the quotient Is also a nine. : Thus, we deduce that the quotient Is 90,809. i f Now, how about the divisor? We know chat eight times the divisor Is a two-digit figure; and nine times the divisor Is a three-digit figure. The only number which meeta these requirement la 12, and from here on it la, of course, easy to complete the division. , . See how such problems are solved T How about trying this one? 2157.1.8.(1.. m ft ERE'S another kind of picture you can draw yourself Emma McKean designed a pretty Easter scene in this maze of lines. You can make it appear by taking your crayons and coloring each segment in accordance with Its color key. represents yellow; B for blue; BR for brown; for orange; V for violet; G for green; O P for pink. Use red lightly for Dink. i I It win be observed that la the third line two digits have been taken down. This means that the second numeral of the quotient (the one preceding the; 8) must be sera Since In the fifth line this process Is repeated, the numeral follow ing the eight- must also be a aero. The two positions In the fourth line Indicate that if we multiply the divisor by 8, we obtain a two-digit product The three positions In the second .line Inform us that the product of the divisor with the first numeral of the quotient is a . w M MAIS M M MM MOIJ tlnifl EASTER CHURCH CRISS-CROSS R for red; TRICKY LABYRINTH irr. deaa-em of a vol rou It ill II n l s m m n m I z i z FEET FIRST irS A HELP in this WM Quia to have feet in your mouth, figuratively vpeafe ing. Bow many of the oueition can you answer? j 1. What Roman god had winged felt? 2. What has three feet and cant walk? 3. Whose feet made such an Impression on RODinson Crusoe T 4. What popular ! rhyme must be recited. with the aid of feet? 6. Woo, Immortalised barefoot boys tn a poem? j 6. What base ban star Is known as -Satchel reef? T. What song heroine's feet were so large that her "shoes were number nine"? TTI EE n B MM t 'MRMM -."1 tjPM ie ms.eiab. " vwi e LETTER WORDS "THERE ts a long ust of words having three Utters or more that can be represented phoneti cally by a single tetter. What tetters could represent the words defined below? l. A question, j 2, Prlnterr measure. 8. Insect.!. Beverage. 5. Vegetable. . Part of body. 7. exclamation. S, Forever. 9. Ocean. 10. Member of your famUy. - j '(uu)n -vt xt tui -s mt o utvmi i t lUMiiy Your Move rUH thirty-eight words la the list below, all relate to what may be found around a church. The object of this criss-cross, or fill-In (as this type of puxxle is also known). Is to Insert every one of these woros in the diagram so that they connect correctly and read from right to left ; and top to bottom. SERMON Is placed In its proper position. nun hymn Icon lamp golt is Intended to fool you. You've a penetrating mind and patience to avoid ds In "escaping" from the central the labyrinth (X) to the single exit. id having to retrace anv part of e? s another maze designed by Julian Gerber. your to have trap chamber Can you chosen pewa altar Bible choir piety 1 1 reus saint -belfry ; bishop . H reepei 1 lit litany J orison it parish i; ' prayer priest K rosary screen sermon chalice eoavent diocese lectera . steeple cardinal miserere ministers sanctuary revelation tabernacle To give you a start, the word Cheap Sheep CZCZL and Cyril Creep secured some sheep cheap. , After seeing If you can recite that sentence aloud three times without tripping your tongue, see If you can work out this prob lem in your head, L a, without pencil and paper. Cecil and Cyril secured cheap sheep at an auction. They bought 18 sheep for a total of 8164. Each paid for each sheep as many dollars as the number of sheep he bought How many did each buy? WVWMI JlOO wn Vm wSnoq oo om -vmbm mil ptr parent on tow oo mvqo qi "uvtc 01 jo mat m won mot Snoa too nft 'LI i ;nn tlr-iTS ij m&m Li- YOU can improve your game solving posers hkc this one, presented by Millard Hopper, na tional unrestricted checker cham pion. White, moving up the board, ts to move first and , win In four moves against any defense of Black. Black has a king on No. 29. Can you make White win? ti- m ia-ei a-ot ewTue m4n fin uer