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to the several casos) are diminished by the product of the partioular specified fractional part as multiplied by the number of cuses loss by two. The difference is divided by the particular specified multiple quantity as increased by one. The result is tho monoy on hand (in the particular ouse).
Examples in illustratim thereof. 242-243. Two travellers saw & purse containing money (dropped) on the way. One of the said to the other), "By scour. ing half of this money in the purse), I shall become twice as rich (as you)." The othor said, " By scouring two-thirils (of the money in the purso), I shall, with the money I have on hand, have threo times as much monoy ng wbat you have on hand." What are the moneys on hand, and what the money in the purso?
241-2441. Two travellers saw on the way I purse containing monoy; and the first of tbem took it up and said, that) that money along with the money that he had on hand horamo twice tbo money of the other (traveller. This) other said that that nionay in the purse with the aid of what he had on hand would be) throo times (the money in the hand of the first traveller). What is the money on hand in the case of cuch of them), and what the money in the purse?
2454-247. Four mon anw on the way a purse containing money. The first among them said, "If I seeure this purxc, I shall with the money already on hand with me become (poemessed of money which will be) eight timno' (the money on hand with the remaining travellera).” Anothor said, that the money in the purso with what he had on hand) would be nine times tho monoy on hand with the rest (among them). Another (said that similarly ho) would he possessed of ton times the mouny, and another (that he would be possessed of eleven times the money. Tell me quickly, O mathematician, what the money in the purse was and how much the money in the band of each of them was.
248. Four men saw on the way & Purs containing money. (Then), with what each of them had on hand, the 3, 4, ), and parts (respectively) of this (monoy in the purse) became twice,
