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Show MATHEMATICS OF BAD ROADS Farmer Solves Problem of Hours Lost In Making Trip Over Road That Is Deep in Mud. If it takes a farmer, making a trip through tlie mud one hour and a half longer than when the roads are linn, how many hours are Lost in a year if 1,000 farmers make an average of 112 trips a month? What would be the monetary loss If each 1 hours lost be estimated at 75 cents per hour for each man and his team? This "two-In-one" proposition gave our old cat considerable trouble, but he finally, worked it out thus: One farmer multiplied mul-tiplied by H4 hours multiplied by 12 trips, multiplied by 1,000 farmers, multiplied by 12 months equals 210,-000 210,-000 hours lost; going a step further, Jnd multiplying 210,000 by 75 cents, you have J102.0OO er annum lost to the farmers. Our old cat Is now pondering pon-dering bow many road bonds this annual loss would float at 5 per cent Interest. Union Times. |