Now this is one that really challenged me - 1912 8th Grade Test from Bullitt County, Ky.
A school enrolled 120 pupils and the number of boys was two-thirds of the number of girls. How many of each sex were enrolled?
WOW!
72 girls and 48 boys. Of course today we could expect that 0.1% of both genders feel like they are the other so that makes the math more difficult.
While that may have been an easy answer in 1912, it’s impossible today. According to facebook, the hands down aurhority of mental illness, there were 58 different genders as of 2014.