This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...the same rate from B to A. A second body leaves B 13 seconds after the first leaves A, and moves toward A with a uniform but less velocity than the velocity of the first. The first body meets the second 10 seconds after the latter starts, and on returning to A overtakes the second body 45 seconds after the latter ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...the same rate from B to A. A second body leaves B 13 seconds after the first leaves A, and moves toward A with a uniform but less velocity than the velocity of the first. The first body meets the second 10 seconds after the latter starts, and on returning to A overtakes the second body 45 seconds after the latter starts. What is the velocity of each body? 51. A fox pursued by a dog is 60 of her own leaps ahead of the dog. The fox makes 9 leaps while the dog makes 6, but the dog goes as far in 3 leaps as the fox goes in 7. How many leaps does each make before the dog catches the fox? 62. The sum of the three digits of a number is 14; the sum of the first and the third digit is equal to the second; and if the digits in the units' and in the tens' place be interchanged, the resulting number will be less than the original number by 18. What is the number? 53. The sum of the ages of A, B, and C is 69 years. Two years ago B's age was equal to one-half of the sum of the ages of A and C, and 10 years hence the sum of the ages of B and C will exceed A's age by 31 years. What are the present ages of A, B, and C? 54. The total capacity of three casks is 1440 quarts. Two of them are full and one is empty. To fill the empty cask it takes all the contents of the first and one-fifth of the contents of the second, or the contents of the second and one-third of the contents of the first. What is the capacity of each cask? 55. Three brothers wished to buy a house worth $ 70,000, but none of them had enough money. If the oldest brother had given the second brother one-third of his money, or the youngest brother one-fourth of his money, each of the latter would then have had enough money to buy the house. But the oldest brother borrowed one-half of the money of the youngest an...
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