Hint
As we don't know how of the people were library members, you can try a random number and see what happens.
Answer
4,200 books.
Reasoning
It doesn't matter how many library members there were, as 1/2 of them accepted the books, and each accepted 6 books, which is 3 books per member on average.
Similarly, it doesn't matter how many non-members there were as 3/4 of them accepted the books, and each accepted 4 books, which is again 3 books per non-member on average.
Double-Checking
Both the members and non-members accepted, on average, 3 books each.
And 1400 x 3 = 4200.
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Puzzle 18
During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a binary code contest took place.
The contest consisted of a binary code transmission where the spaces between the letters were missing and there was no punctuation.
Each letter of the alphabet was translated into its binary equivalent based on its position in the alphabet. The resulting code was then blocked in groups of five digits.
a=1, b=10, c=11, d=100, e=101, f=110, g=111, h=1000, i=1001, j=1010, k=1011, l=1100, m=1101, n=1110, o=1111, p=10000, q=10001, r=10010, s=10011, t=10100, u=10101, v=10110, w=10111, x=11000, y=11001, z=11010