Some years ago a man told me he had spent one hundred English silver coins in Christmas-boxes, giving every person the same amount, and it cost him exactly £1, 10s. 1d. Can you tell just how many persons received the present, and how he could have managed the distribution? That odd penny looks queer, but it is all right.
23.--THE CHRISTMAS-BOXES.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.
