The Windrush arithmetical exercise Mystery Cache
The Windrush arithmetical exercise
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Size: 
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The cache is not at the above co-ordinates but if you try a little
old fashioned arithmetic you’ll discover where it’s
hidden. No asking teacher!!
2 Geocachers stop in the middle of Dartmoor to eat their sandwiches
, the first has five and the other three, they are joined by a
third cacher who shares their lunch each eating equal portions. The
third cacher then pays eight 20 pence pieces for his meal, how many
coins are due to the first cacher and how many to the
second?....A B
A young cacher is given a box of toy soldiers that he is not
allowed to open until he can tell his parents how many it contains,
he knows that rows of 3 will leave 1 over, rows of 4 leave 2 over,
rows of 5 leave 3 over and rows of 6 would leave 4 over. The boy
also knows he has less than 100 soldiers but how many does he
have?.... C D
A cachers baby is placed on a pair of false scales, on one end it
shows the childs weight as 16lb but on the other end only 9lb what
is the actual weight of the baby?.... E
F
A seller of film containers met 3 cachers, the first bought half
her stock and returned 10, the second bought a third of what she
had left and returned 2, the third bought half her remaining stock
and gave her back 1 after which she found she had 12 containers
left. How many did she start with?.... G
H
Father and son are aged 71 and 34 respectively, at what age was the
father 3 times the age of his son and at what age will the son be
half his fathers age?.... J K .
L and M N
You will find the cache here......... North LH M(K-J).(G+L)(D-F)M West HH(K-B)
EN.AC(G-B)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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