The Christmas-boxes
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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.
Solution
Commit an attempt to unseal the proof. Write your answer — right or wrong, thinking it through is the point.
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