Seven friends,
named Adams, Brooks, Cater, Dobson,
Edwards,
Fry, and
Green, were spending fifteen days together at the seaside, and they had
a
round breakfast table at the hotel all to themselves.
It was agreed
that
no man should ever sit down twice with the same two
neighbours.
As they
can be seated, under these conditions, in just fifteen ways, the plan
was
quite practicable.
But could the
reader have prepared an arrangement
for
every sitting?
The hotel
proprietor was asked to draw up a
scheme, but
he
miserably failed.
See answer
|