 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Algebra - 1877 - 280 pages
...piece of cloth a number of yards, such that the number sold was to the number left as 4 : 5 ; tho« he cut off for his own use 15 yards, and found that...the number sold as 1:2. How many yards did the piece original!y contain ? Ans. 45. , 58. Four places, A, B, C, and D, are in a straight line, and the distance... | |
 | Edward Olney - 1880 - 260 pages
...1. Four towns are situated in the order of the letters A, B, C, D. The distance from A to D is 120 miles ; the distance from A to B is to the distance from B to G as 3 to 5 ; and one-third of the distance from A to B, added to the distance from B to C, is three... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1881 - 406 pages
...miles longer than the other ; and two roads from B to C, one of them 8 miles longer than the other. The distance from A to B is to the distance from B to C, by the shorter roads, as 1 to 2 ; by the longer roads, as 2 to 3. Find the distances. 17. What must... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1881 - 254 pages
...from C to D ? How far are the towns apart ? Ans., A to B, 30 miles; B to C, 60 miles; C to D 24 miles. miles; the distance from A to B is to the distance from C to D, as 2 to 3 ; and £ the distance from A to B, added to £ the distance from C to D, is 3 times... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1884 - 552 pages
...miles longer than the other ; and two roads from B to C, one of them 8 miles longer than the other. The distance from A to B is to the distance from B to 0, by the shorter roads, as 1 to 2 ; by the longer roads, as 2 to 3. Find the distances. 17. What must... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1886 - 284 pages
...miles longer than the other ; and two roads from B to C, one of them 8 miles longer than the other. The distance from A to B is to the distance from B to C, by the shorter roads, as 1 to 2 ; by the longer roads, as 2 to 3. Find the distances. 14. A rectangular... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1892 - 370 pages
...101. Four places are situated in the order of the letters, A, B, C, D. The distance from A to D is 34 miles; the distance from A to B is to the distance from С to D as 2 is to 3, and \ of the distance from A to B added to £ the distance from C to D is three... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1898 - 440 pages
...miles longer than the other ; and two roads from B to C, one of them 8 miles longer than the other. The distance from A to B is to the distance from B to C, by the shorter roads, as 1 to 2 ; by the longer roads, as 2 to 3. Find the distances. 17. What must... | |
 | Joseph W Wilson (Mathematician) - 1910 - 316 pages
...20. Four places, A, B, C, and D, are situated in the same order as the letters. From A to D is 110 miles. The distance from A to B is to the distance from B to С as 6 to 7. The distance from С to D added to twice that from A to B equals three times that from... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1848 - 252 pages
...places are situated in the order of the 4 letters, A, B, C, and D ; the distance from A to D is 34 miles ; the distance from A to B is to the distance from C to D, as 2 to 3 ; and | the distance from A to B, added.to 3 the distance from C to D, is 3 times... | |
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D. The distance from A to D is 34 miles ; the distance from A to B is to the distance from C to D as 2 to 3 ; and £ of the distance from A to B, added to one half the distance from C to D, is three times the distance from .B to C. 
