| Charles Hutton - Geometry - 1770 - 518 pages
...io N XVI. A gentleman having a bowling green, 300 feet long and 200 feet broad, which he would raife one foot higher by means of the earth to be dug out of a ditch around it ; it is required to find to what depth the ditch muft be dug, its breadth being every where... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...QUEST. 48. A gentleman has a howling green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of...supposing its breadth to be every where 8 feet ? Ans. 7|^ feet. QUEST. 49. How high above the earth must a person be raised, that he may see -f of its surface... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 494 pages
...QUES J. 48. A gentleman has a bowling green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of...supposing its breadth to be every where 8 feet ? Ans. 7^| feet. QUEST. 49. How high above the earth must a person be raised, that he may see ^ of its surface... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 442 pages
...QUEST. 48. A gentleman has a bowling green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of...dug, supposing its breadth to be every where 8 feet i Ans. 7f-| feet. QUEST. 49. How high above the earth must a person be raised, that he may see j. of... | |
| Charles Hutton - Arithmetic - 1818 - 646 pages
...QUEST. 48. A gentleman has a bowling green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of...be dug, supposing its breadth to be every where 8 leet ? Ans. 7ff feet. QUEST. 40. How high above the earth must a person be raised, that he may see... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...QUEST. 48. A gentleman has a bowling green, ?00 feet long, and 208 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher. by means of the earth to be dug out of a ditch that poes round it : to wh;it depth must the ditth be dug, supposing it« breadth to be every where 8 feet... | |
| Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...end is 4.74291 feet. 7. A gentleman has a bowling-green, 500 feet in length, and 300 feet in breadth, which he would raise one foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of a ditch with which he intends to surround it ; what will be the depth of the ditch, if its breadth be every... | |
| Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...797 yards, or near 56 miles. 36. A bowling-green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, is to be raised one foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out...supposing its breadth to be every where 8 feet ? Ans. 7_*_|. teet. 37. Of what diameter must the bore of a piece of ordnance be, which is cast for a ball... | |
| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1825 - 608 pages
...QUEST. 48. A gentleman has a bowling green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise 1 foot higher, by means of the earth to be dug out of a ditcli dial goes round it : to what depth must the ditch be dug, supposing its breadth to be every... | |
| John Bonnycastle - Geometry - 1829 - 256 pages
...Ans. 97784. 5C84 yards, or near 56 miles. 37. A gentleman has a bowling; green, 300 feet long, and 200 feet broad, which he would raise one foot higher by...dug, supposing its breadth to be every where 8 feet ? 38. Of what diameter must the bore of a cannon be, which is cast for a ball of 24lbs. weight, so... | |
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