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Rh are never to be counted, even when met elsewhere. Q. Y. Z. tries a rather complex algebraical solution, and succeeds in finding the time of meeting correctly: all else is wrong. seems to think that, in (1), the easterly train stood still for 3 hours; and says that, in (2), the travellers met at the end of 71 minutes 40 seconds. nobly confesses to having tried no calculation, but merely having drawn a picture of the railway and counted the trains; in (1), she counts wrong; in (2) she makes them meet in 75 minutes. omits (1): in (2) he makes Clara count the train she met on her arrival. The unsigned one is also unintelligible; it states that the travellers go "1–24th more than the total distance to be traversed"! The "Clara" theory, already referred to, is adopted by 5 of these, viz.,, and the nameless writer.

The 11 half-right answers are from, K. W., and. All these adopt the "Clara" theory. omits (1). gets (1) right, but in (2) makes the same mistake as. I notice in your solution a marvellous proportion-sum:—"300 miles : 2 hours :: one mile : 24 seconds." May I venture to advise your acquiring, as soon as possible, an utter disbelief in the possibility of a ratio