 | James Morford Taylor - Algebra - 1893 - 358 pages
...rate of 4| miles 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...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
...time could either 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...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,... | |
 | Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman - Military education - 1900 - 362 pages
...time could either 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...and tail together. What was the weight of the fish ? Doolan's answer to the first question was О ; to the second, " the man could drink it in fifty days,... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Algebra - 1900 - 504 pages
...rate of 4| miles an hour. When does В overtake A ? 51. A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9 pounds; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his...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 -fT of the... | |
 | Fletcher Durell, Edward Rutledge Robbins - Algebra - 1909 - 296 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... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1891 - 312 pages
...VERIFICATION. — + 21 = 42 + 21 - 63 = — • 3 2 (6) A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9 pounds. His head weighed as much as his tail and half his...weight of the fish ? Let 2x = the weight of the body in pounds. Then 9 + x = weight of the head ; and, since the body weighed as much as both head and tail,... | |
 | 1873 - 422 pages
...furrows eight inches apart, how far would a man walk ? II. A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9 Ibs; his head weighed as much as his tail and half his...body weighed as much as his head and tail together. Find (thc weight of the fish. % ' Coiinnuiiiatlioits Jar the Editor to be addressed, Mr. M, M1LJJ1&,... | |
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Ibs., his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighed as much as his head and t.ail together : what was the weight of the fish ? Let 2x = the weight of the body, in pounds. 
