Monday: Miss MaryDoll’s Marvellous Maths Mayhem.

Thank you Puzzler, Bath & *Willa! Sorry I’m late replying, I’ve only just logged in again.

Bath you’re so right about the grownup spelling! ??

Iz surtinlee a cunundwum oops (I dunno wot dat meanz but I erd sumwun sey it on der tely)
Mynes mum seys I got two go two sweep know or eyes won be fit four nuffink twomowow. Nite nite ?

You are all so clever....... I just thought I had to stand up straight and be clean and tidy. Life is so complicated

Mummy says I am ‘destined for better things’ maybe a tight rope walker is a ‘better thing’ ?
Maybe Miss will know.

Stiw done unnastan wy sheed av to moov in surkals tho.

Or pwaps thare finkin of moovin to nubber kuntree, wun of thowz ware day awl bwing dare shoppin ome fwom de markit in barskits ballinst on dare eds, sted ov yoosin shoppin baggs wot kan be kawwid in dare ands. So Oops as to pwaktiss doin it now.

oops duz you fink yous famly iz twaining youz for der sercus. Praps dey wan u two be abel two bawance on a tyte wope.

It’s so I can move in circles I think, but I can’t read through my head, cos the book is to heavy.
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Oh oops youz lernin to spel rite at las. ?

Oh pants I fought department woz wear you wen to get on a airoplayne. Dats siwwy pants if dey don won aknee wun to sea der nickas dey can where twousis. An wy duz oops av to put a buk on er ed. Mynes mum seys she got eyez in der bak of er ed but evn my mum kant weed fru d top of er ed.?

Zackly Pantglas zackly right.

Iss corled Departmen Doodle an yung laydees av to lurn ow to wark proplee an ow to get in a ?Minnie wivowt showyn therr nickas??

Thank you Doodle I have to balance a big book on my head.
It’s so that I can move in better circles
Does Miss move in circles or straight lines?
I’d rather not move in circles really

Doodle, sums meke my hed ichee 'n mekes mee rite scwatchy. Gettin' so aye ken't reed mee ouwn henriting eeder.

willa if yous scwatchin yous mite av flees ?

oops yous son av two go ome to pwactise walkin. Wez kan shoe yous ow to wolk. Youz pik up yous fut an yous plonk it don in frun of yous. Den yous lif der one ahind an yous plonk dat wun don in frun of d uver wun. S eze I learnded it wen I woz wun. ?

sorry..I was looking at my scratch from this morning....it should be H (3+7) then you move the H to the left of the equation and 2H -H = 10 and H=10

Squiffy, I'm guessing you already know a bit of algebra....

We are told that the (Husky and Poodle) represent the same value because divided by each other they =1, so let's call them them both 'Hounds' (for simplicity) and represent them with an H and we also have a Terrier (T).

We are given two other statements:
Hound + Hound = Terrier + 3
Terrier = (one) Hound + 7

So we have H+H = T+3
and T=H+7

Formula would be: H+H = (T+3) +7 but we already know that T=H+7, so let's use (H+7) as our value for T

H+H = (H+7)+10
2H = H +10 (move H to the other side of the equation and per rule we have to change the sign)
...... we now have 2H-H = 10 so H=10 (each Hounds =10, aka Husky and Poodle)

Therefore we have T = 10 + 7 so Terrier = 17
and we also know that the Husky and the Poodle = 10 each

*the same value

Your starting point Squiffy would have been the bottom line - 1 = poodle / husky. The only way to get an answer of 1 in a division is for a number to be divided by itself. So the poodle and husky would have to have to same value. It's just a matter of trial and error after that.

(God that was so much quicker typing that using grown up spelling! ?)

I fink yooz rite willa. Yoo kan av allidgees to wawnuts an uvva nuts wot gro on trees, but iz not yoojallee childun wot get it, oney gwoadups.

Squiffy, if you think of the equals sign ( = )
being the middle of a seesaw,
the total values of the dogs on the left hand side (of the seesaw) are the same as the total value of the dogs on the right hand side.

10 + 10 (20) = 17 + 3 (20)

(17) = 10 + 7 (17)

(1) = 10 divide by 10 (1)

Terrier 17. Husky 10. Poodle 10.

Or were you joking?

Could someone very kind please explain how to get the answer to the puzzle? I can’t even get started on this one! ?? Thank you! ?

Doodle, aye nevah git a goldin appo eeder. De ye fink ef wee peint 'em all yeller dei kin luk goldin?

Thank you Willa you are such a sweetie, I have my car arriving soon, I have to go home to practise walking.