{"id":2293,"date":"2021-07-17T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T19:00:53","slug":"fashion-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/17\/fashion-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Again we have a puzzle from the Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos).<\/p>\n

\u201cOn one occasion, Holmes and I were asked to, solve the robbery of a number of dresses from the workshop of a recently deceased ladies\u2019 tailor to the upper echelons of society. Holmes took a short look at the particulars of the case, and sent them all back to the gown-maker\u2019s son with a scribbled note to the effect that it could only be one particular seamstress, with the help of her husband.<\/p>\n

However, glancing through my observations some period later, I observed certain facts about the robbery which led me to an interesting little exercise. The stock at the workshop had been very recently valued at the princely sum of \u00a31,800, and when examined after the theft, comprised of precisely 100 completed dresses in a range of styles, but of equal valuation. However, there was no remaining record of how many dresses had been there beforehand. The son did recall his father stating, of the valuation, that if he\u2019d had thirty. dresses more, then a valuation of \u00a31,800 would have meant \u00a33 less per dress.<\/p>\n

Are you able to calculate how many dresses were stolen?\u201d<\/p>\n

Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See the Fashion Puzzle<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again we have a puzzle from the Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos). \u201cOn one occasion, Holmes and I were asked to, solve the robbery of a number of dresses from the workshop of a recently deceased ladies\u2019 tailor to the upper echelons of society. Holmes took a short look at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133,193],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-algebra","tag-tim-dedopulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}