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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $27$
- Buying Tobacco
- A box of $50$ cigarettes cost the same in shillings and pence as some tobacco bought in pence and shillings.
- The change out of a $10 \shillings$ note was the same as the cost of the cigarettes.
- What did the cigarettes cost?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Money Puzzles: $27$. -- Buying Tobacco