 | Samuel Webber - Mathematics - 1808 - 466 pages
...x=10= length of the side required. 6. A labourer engaged to serve for 40 days upon these conditions, that for every day he worked he should receive 20d. but for every clay he played, or was absent, he was to forfeit 8d. ; now at the end of the time he had to receive... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1813 - 456 pages
...=500+ Юл;, by the question, Or, by transposition, 1 Ox — §x = бОО — 500, Conseqr x= 1OO tbe number of bushels required. 12. A labourer engaged...but for every day he was absent he should forfeit Sd. : now, at the end of the time, he had to receive 1/. 11*. Sd.; how many days then did he work,... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1818 - 284 pages
...600=500+ 10*, by the question, Or, by transposition, lOx — 9*=600 — 500, Consequently z=100the number of bushels required. 12. A labourer engaged...condition that for every day he worked he should receive ZOd., but for every day he was absent he should forfeit 8d., : now. at the end of the time, he had... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1818 - 326 pages
...9x-j-600=i500+10.r, by the question* Or, by transposition, 1 Ox — 9^=600--500, Consequently x=100the number of bushels required. 12. A labourer engaged...serve for 40 days, on condition that for every day he woiked he should receive 20e/., bnt for everyday he was absent he should forfeit 8d., : now at the... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1825 - 336 pages
...\QX, by the question, Or, by transposition, 10*— 9o;=tiOO-500, Consequently x= 100 the number ef bushels required. 12. A labourer engaged to serve...but for every day he was absent he should forfeit 3d., : now at the end of the time, he had to receive 1Z. I Is. £d. ; how many days did he work and... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Arithmetic - 1825 - 224 pages
...? С Their income 2606. Ans. < A. spends 400, ( B. spends 650. 3. A labourer engaged himself for 50 days on condition that for every day he worked he should receive t dollar, but for every day that he was idle he should for felt 50 cen's, at the expiration of the... | |
 | Warren Colburn - Algebra - 1826 - 290 pages
...subtracting, and those which have -\- must be changed to — . 2. A gentleman hired a labourer for 20 days on condition that, for every day he worked, he should receive 7s., but for every day he was idle, he should forfeit 3s. At the end of the time agreed on he received... | |
 | Warren Colburn - Algebra - 1828 - 330 pages
...subtraMng, and those which have -\- must be changed to — . 2. A gentleman hired a labourer for 20 days on condition that, for every day he worked, he should receive 7s., but for every day he was idle, he should forfeit 3s. At the end of the time agreed on he received... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1829 - 372 pages
...9^+600=5011 +- 'Or, by the question, Or, by tranj-position, lOx - 9r=600 - ;.00. Consequently i=lOO the number of bushels required. 12. A labourer engaged...he should receive 20d., but for every day he wa.s abset.t he should forfeit Sd. : now at the end of the time, he had to receive I/. 1 Is. 8d. ; how many... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1834 - 330 pages
...9x4-600=500+100:, by the question, Or, by transposition, lOar — 9z=600 — 500. Consequently x=lQQ, the number of bushels required. 12. A labourer engaged...condition that for every day he worked he should receive 20rf., but for every day he was absent he should forfeit 8d. : now, at the end of the time he had to... | |
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