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My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.
I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia 500 miles
Peru 8,000 miles
India 4,500 miles
Scotland 9,500 miles
France ? miles
Can you work out the distance to France?
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Answer
3,000 miles.
Take the alphabetic position of the first letter, halve, and then multiply by 1000.
You could also multiply by 500 instead.
Double-Checking
F is the 6th letter of the alphabet, halving gives 3, multiplying by 1000 gives 6000.