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Happy Halloween!
So they come to the door tonight asking for a trick or a treat & obviously I give them a trick.
(I posted this last year & two people handily answered it right. This is for them what didn't see it then.)
Mary is 24.
She is twice as old
as Ann was when
Mary was as old as
Ann is now.
How old is Ann?
On October 16, 1903, The New York Press published this little word problem.
It's dead easy, but the trick part is that it looks easier than it is.
The whole of north America knew of it in a few weeks & for decades later, the
phrase "How old is Ann?" came to mean - "Yeah! And you've asked a
ridiculously impossible question!" (As it were.)
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