 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1879 - 332 pages
...which was 6 yards longer than the other, for 17 pounds 16 shillings, and the digging of each trench cost as many shillings per yard as there were yards...What was the length of each ? Ans. 10 and 16 yards. 18. A and B set oub from two towns distant from each other 247 miles, and traveled the direct road... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1884 - 204 pages
...feet ? 3. A person bought 2 pieces of cloth, one 6 yards longer than the other, for 20/. 1cw. ; and each cost as many shillings per yard as there were yards in its length : find the length of each. 4. A man walking \ of a mile above his ordinary rate gains | of an hour... | |
 | Oregon. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - Education - 1891 - 332 pages
...which was ii yards longer than the other, for 17 pounds 16 shillings, and the digging of each trench cost as many shillings per yard as there were yards in its length. What was the length of each ? 10. Two quantities are to each other as m to n, and the difference of their squares is d 2 . What... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1892 - 370 pages
...How wide is the street ? 17. A person purchased two pieces of cloth which together measured 36 yards. Each cost as many shillings per yard as there were yards in the piece. If one piece cost 4 times as much as the other, how many yards were there in each ? 18.... | |
 | William Ernst Paterson - Algebra - 1908 - 614 pages
...was six yards longer than the other, for .£17. 16,*., and the digging of each of |^_ . •;,' _ them cost as many shillings per yard as there were yards in its length. What was the length of each ? 49. A company at a restaurant had .£8. 15*. to pay. Two left without paying their share, and each... | |
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A laborer dug two trenches, one of which was 6 yards longer than the other, for 17 pounds, 16 shillings, and the digging of each of them cost as many shillings per yard as there were yards in its length. What was the length of each ? Ans. 10 and 16 yards. 
