THE CHRISTMAS-BOXES

Some years ago a man told me he had spent one hundred English silver coins in Christmas-boxes, giving every person the same amount, and it cost him exactly £`1, 10`s. `1`d. Can you tell just how many persons received the present, and how he could have managed the distribution? That odd penny looks queer, but it is all right.

Arithmetic Algebra -> Word Problems Algebra -> Equations -> Diophantine Equations

Sources:

Amusements in Mathematics, Henry Ernest Dudeney Question 23

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