 | Mathematical recreations - 1774 - 734 pages
...and 55 minutes. Qtießionll. LD 1708: A gentleman a garden had, Fivefcore feet long, and fourfcore broad ; A walk, of equal breadth, half round He made,...(The figure in the margin fee) How wide's the walk, pray tell to me. В С Anfuaer. Put AB= 100=0, BC=8o=¿, AF=CD, the breadth of the walk=x \ then F... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1775 - 382 pages
...5 hours, 45 minutes? Queftion z. A gentleman a garden had, go Five-lcore foot long, and four-fcore broad, A walk of equal breadth, half round He made,...(The figure in the margin fee,) How wide's the walk pray tell to me ? Queftiott "The meaning of the problem is, that the number 9 ad Jed to once his age... | |
 | Ladies' diary - 1775 - 430 pages
...coutift of 365 days, j hours, 45 minutes ^ A gentleman a garden had, Five-fcore foot long, and four-fcore broad, A walk of equal breadth, half round He made,...(The figure in the margin fee,) How wide's the walk pray tell to me ' Qucftlon •The meaning of the problem is, that the number 9 added to once his age... | |
 | Paul Deighan - Arithmetic - 1804 - 504 pages
...ordered, the fquare completed, &c. ^= 41. A gentleman a garden had, Five fcore feet long and four fcore broad ; A walk of equal breadth, half round, He made...the margin fee, How wide's the walk, I pray tell me ? Put A=iov=o,'BC=9o=l>, AF=CD, the br«adth of the walk =x, then ?G=/i— x, then per the properties... | |
 | Charles Vyse - Arithmetic - 1806 - 342 pages
...fifty Degrees ; The Meadow's Content is all that I want : Assist me, kii/d Youths, if you please. {SO} A Gentleman a Garden had, • Five Score Feet long...round, He made, that took up half the Ground : The Fig- ure in the Margin see. How wide the walk, I pray, tell me ? (31) Ye young Artists, be so kind,... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...figure's base ; required hence the distance between the tops of the two columns. Ans. 15J.03637 Jcet. 30. A gentleman a garden had, Five score feet long and four score broad ; A Walk of equal width half round He made, that took up half the ground : Ye skilful in geometry, Tell us how wide the... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Plane trigonometry - 1847 - 492 pages
...it divides the base into two parts, whose lengths are 17.0087 and 12.9913 chains respectively. 33. A gentleman a garden had, Five score feet long and four score broad ; A walk of equal width half round He made, that took up half the ground : Ye skilful in geometry, Tell us how wide the... | |
 | 1856 - 422 pages
...geometrical solution to the following question, in Dr. Thomson's Euclid, prop. 26, book 8 of the appendix. " A gentleman a garden had, Five score feet long, and four score broad ; Л walk of equal width all round, He made, that took up half the ground : Ye skilful in Geometry,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...geometrical solution to the following question, in Dr. Thomson's Euclid, prop. 26, book 3 of the appendix. " A gentleman a garden had, Five score feet long, and four score broad ; A walk of equal width all round. He made, that took up half the ground : Ye skilful in Geometry,, Tell us how wide... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1870 - 578 pages
...it divides the base into two parts, whose lengths are 17-0087 and 12-9913 chains respectively. 33. A gentleman a garden had, Five score feet long and four score broad ; A walk of equal width half round He made, that took up half the ground ; Ye skilful in geometry, Tell us how wide the... | |
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Walk of equal width half round He made, that took up half the ground : Ye skilful in geometry, Tell us how wide the walk must be. 