While doing research for a book on cycling (past and present) I came across this passage in an 1883 bicycle magazine, The Wheelman. It reminded me of my old algebra teacher back in high school. Enjoy!
"One of the problems given to lady candidates for civil-service appointments in a late examination was as follows: "A starts to walk from one town to another at the average rate of three miles an hour; forty minutes later a bicyclist (B) starts on the same journey at the rate of twelve miles an hour. On reaching the second town B rests half an hour, and, after riding forty minutes on his return journey, meets A still on his way. Find the distance between the two towns.""
—"Wheel News." The Wheelman. June, 1883, p. 234.
"One of the problems given to lady candidates for civil-service appointments in a late examination was as follows: "A starts to walk from one town to another at the average rate of three miles an hour; forty minutes later a bicyclist (B) starts on the same journey at the rate of twelve miles an hour. On reaching the second town B rests half an hour, and, after riding forty minutes on his return journey, meets A still on his way. Find the distance between the two towns.""
—"Wheel News." The Wheelman. June, 1883, p. 234.
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