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Puzzle 57 


Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

A popular newspaper printed part of a page that pointed out that port officials use a pencil, not a pen, when they prepare paper updates to their port reports.

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Puzzle 58 


You can replace the dashes with the same four-letter word, and create two new words, one that starts with ARM, and one that ends in ING.

Can you find all possible four-letter words that work?
arm----
   ----ing

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Puzzle 59 


Alex and Billie were rowing their canoe along the River Trent.

In the morning, they managed to row upstream at an average speed of 2 miles per hour.

They then stopped for a spot of lunch and a nice rest.

In the afternoon, the pace was a little easier as they were now rowing downstream back to their starting point, and managed an average speed of 4 miles an hour.

The morning trip took them 3 hours longer than the afternoon.

How far did they row upstream?

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Puzzle 60 


Yesterday I went for a short bicycle ride around the local lakes. As the weather was very hot, I rode in shorter stages than I'd normally ride.

In Stage One, I rode half of the overall distance.

Stage Two saw half of the remaining distance plus 35 metres covered.

Stage Three covered three-quarters of the remaining distance.

Stage Four completed half of the remaining distance, plus 75 metres.

Stage Five completed the journey with a final burst of 150 metres.

How far did I cycle in total?

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