 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 452 pages
...There is a certain island 30 miles in circumference. If A and B commence travelling round it, A at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 5 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at the end of 30 hours ? '.£ - ^.. 4. Having money to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 458 pages
...There is a certain island 30 miles in circumference. If A and B commence travelling round it, A at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 5 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at the end of 30 hours ? 4. Having money to invest, I purchased... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 456 pages
...There is a certain island 30 miles in circumference. If A and B commence travelling round it, A at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 5 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at the end of 30 hours ? 4. Having money to invest, I purchased... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1864 - 444 pages
...B, 22 days ; G, 33 days. 46. A and B start from opposite points and travel toward each other, A at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 4 miles an hour. At the same time, C sets out with A and travels at the rate of 5 miles an hour. After meeting B he turns... | |
 | James Loudon - Algebra - 1873 - 314 pages
...filled by both together ? 14. A starts on a journey 20 minutes before B ; A walks at the rate of 4 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 4£ miles an hour; at what distance along the road will B overtake A ? 15. A, who walks at the rate of 3J miles per hour, starts 18 minutes... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Arithmetic - 1887 - 448 pages
...from London to Croydon, a distance of 10 miles, at the same moment that B leaves Croydon for London. A walks at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and B at the rate of 2f miles an hour; but, soon after they started, A met with an accident which caused him to lose 15... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - Arithmetic - 1894 - 170 pages
...have 60 cents together ? 43. A and B start at the same point and travel in opposite directions, A at the rate of 3 miles an hour and B at the rate of 5 miles an hour ; how far apart are they at the end of 5 hours ? At the end of 6 hours? 10 hours? 44.... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - Algebra - 1895 - 136 pages
...? 3. A and B are traveling in the same direction, A having 10 miles the start of B. A is walking at the rate of 3 miles an hour and B at the rate of 5 miles an hour. If they started at 1 o'clock, what time will it be when B overtakes A ? 4. Amy has... | |
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... 755 bushels of grain; there being in the first 125 bushels, and in the second 96 bushels, more than in the third ; how many bushels in the second and third ? Ans. 363 in the second, 267 in the third. 3. There is a certain island 30 miles in circumference.... 