Next door
An encyclopedia salesman was working his way along a row of terraced houses. His standard patter was to ask about the children in the household. At one house the lady who answered the door told him: “I have three children. The product of their ages is 72. The sum of their ages equals the number of an adjoining house next door.” It was impossible for the salesman to work out the ages from this.
At the next house the lady who answered the door told him “I have three children. The product of their ages is 72. The…
