Zoe removes the low-denomination coins from her purse every evening and puts them in a row of piggy banks. She has acquired the piggy banks while on holiday and each of them contains coins of a different denomination. Last night Zoe counted the money in them. Here is what she found:

- There was more than £1.40 in the plastic piggy bank, which contained coins of a higher denomination than the ones Zoe keeps in the piggy bank she bought from bournemouth, which is not where she got the bank that holds her 2p pieces.
- The 5p pieces are not kept in the terracotta piggy bank, which contained less than £1.75.
- The coins in the bank made of tin were worth an even number of pence and this bank contained coins of a lower denomination than the ones in the piggy bank from Southwald.
- One of the piggy banks yielded £1.50, but not the one purchased in Weston-super-Mare. The piggy bank used to store 20p pieces contained a greater sum of money than the one containing 5p pieces.
- The china bank, which is used to store coins of one of the lowest three denominations, contained 20p more than was in the piggy bank from Margate.
- The bank that she bought in Torquay may or may not have been the one made out of wood.

Given that Zoe found totals of £1.40, £1.50, £1.60, £1.70, £1.75, and the coins she kept were in denominations of 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p (100p = £1), can you work out what she found?

(In reply to re(2): A more logically understood answer for logischer Verstand by Sam)

Sorry, Sam and logischer, I mistakenly thought Mr. Verstand was referring to a different puzzle. The puzzle I thought he meant was "I got your number", which reads: "My sister, Elise and I have the same digits in our phone numbers, just in reverse order. Elise's number is also evenly divisible by mine." There was a controversy in that thread about what "evenly divisible" means. I don't know why I thought that logischer would ask about that puzzle in this thread. Maybe I should start pulling my own leg......  

 

Posted by Penny on 2004-04-28 14:55:53