 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1866 - 420 pages
...Chaise $300, horse $100, harness $50. 48. There is a fish whose tail weighs 9 Ibs. ; his head weighs as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighs as much as his head and his tail. What is his whole weight ? Ans. 72 Ibs. 49. Find that number,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Algebra - 1878 - 322 pages
...are to each other as-« to c ? • 53. A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9 Ibs. ; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body...and tail together. What was the weight of the fish ? 54. An express messenger travels at the rate of 13 miles in 2 hours ; 12 hours later, another starts... | |
 | J. G - 1878 - 408 pages
...is the case in the well-known example : A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9lb. ; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighed as much as his head and tail. Find the weight of the whole fish ? Here, if x = weight of body, 9 + X = weight of head ; .'. by question... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1892 - 370 pages
...the cistern if both are running ? 78. A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9 pounds. His head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighed as much as his head and tail. How much did the fish weigh ? 79. Of a detachment of soldiers, -f are on duty, £ of them sick, ^ of... | |
 | George William Jones - Algebra - 1892 - 300 pages
...order of the digits is reversed: what is the number ? 6. If the tail of a fish weigh 9 Ibs., his head as much as his tail and half his body, and his body as much as his head and tail, what is the weight of the whole fish ? 7. There are two pipes one of... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Algebra - 1893 - 358 pages
...an hour. When did B overtake A ? 51. A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9 pounds; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighed as much as his head and tail. What did the fish weigh? 52. Find a number such that if f of it be subtracted from 20, and y'T of the... | |
 | Stewart B. Sabin, Charles D. Lowry - Algebra - 1894 - 138 pages
....-»-8jr-T+g. ^+3y = 2y + §+2. LESSON LXX. 1. The tail of a fish weighs 9 pounds. His head weighs as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighs as much as his head and tail together. What is the weight of the fish ? 2. A third part of a... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - Algebra - 1895 - 136 pages
...requires 2^ hours. In what time will both fill it? 469. If the tail of a fish weighs 9 Ibs. , his head as much as his tail and half his body, and his body as much as his head and tail, what is the weight of the whole fish? 470. A and B sell papers. The first... | |
 | Fletcher Durell, Edward Rutledge Robbins - Algebra - 1897 - 482 pages
...how much did each have at first ? 45. There is a fish whose tail weighs 9 pounds ; his head weighs as much as his tail and half his body ; and his body weighs as much as his head and his tail. What is the weight of the whole fish ? 46. A set out from... | |
 | Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman - Military education - 1900 - 362 pages
...have drunk the whole barrel ? (3) A fish was caught whose tail weighed nine pounds ; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body...and tail together. What was the weight of the fish ? Doolan's answer to the first question was 0 ; to the second, " the man could drink it in fifty days,... | |
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A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9Z6. ; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighed as much as his head and tail together : what was the weight of the fish? 
