110.--THE ABBOT'S PUZZLE.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

The only answer is that there were 5 men, 25 women, and 70 children. There were thus 100 persons in all, 5 times as many women as men, and as the men would together receive 15 bushels, the women 50 bushels, and the children 35 bushels, exactly 100 bushels would be distributed.

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