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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $47$
- The Quarrelsome Children
- A man married a widow, and they each already had children.
- Ten years later there was a pitched battle engaging the present family of $12$ children.
- The mother ran to the father and cried,
- "Come at once! Your children and my children are fighting our children!"
- As the parents now had each nine children of their own, how many were born during the ten years?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age and Kinship Puzzles: $47$. -- The Quarrelsome Children
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Miscellaneous Puzzles: $184$. The Quarrelsome Children