Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd70!fortune!wall From: wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: New puzzle Message-ID: <1656@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 13:50:30 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.1656 Posted: Wed Oct 26 13:50:30 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Oct-83 06:55:02 EDT Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 15 This comes from the latest 'Discover' magazine, my kind of puzzle. A census taker comes to a persons house and asks him the age of his three daughters. The man replies that the product of their ages (whole numbers only) is 72. And that the sum of their ages is his house number. The census taker replied that this wasn't enough information to solve the problem. In that case, the man of the house said, the eldest loves chocolate milk. What are the ages of the three girls? -Jim Solution to follow in a few days....