188 Crowns. How many Pounds of Pepper had he for 8 Crowns, and how many of Saffron for 26? x+14 -x 640 + =188x+2632 6 xx 5XX+14|6 936x+13104 7040x+936x+13104-188xx+2632x 7-1576x 8188xx+1056x13104 81889 xx+5,617x=69,702 9C1cxx+5,617% 7,88477,586 10 W 2 11 + 2,808 = 8,808 VV II-2,808 126 Pounds of Saffron. No. 94. Some Companions at an Inn spent 31. 15s. before paying the Reckoning, two went away, by which each of the reft was obliged to pay ten Shillings more than his equal Club. I demand the Number at first? 6Xx X 150 7 75% 10** +20x = 75* 7-75x 8 10XX20x = 2x = 15 -1=4 150 ·12 + 113 x 5 the Number of Men at firft. No. 95. Two Travellers fet out at the fame Time from two Cities, the one from A, and the other from B, which are 120 Miles diftant from one another; the firft goes five Miles a Day, and the other 3 Miles lefs than the Number of Days in which they meet. When will they meet? the Time required. 5* the Miles the first travelled. 33 the Second's daily Journey. 7 + 2x+1=121 7—1 (8) x = 10 the Days they travel. No. 96. A Poft fets out from A towards B, who travels 8 Miles a Day; after he had got 27 Miles another fets out from В to meet him, who goes every Day of the whole Distance of the Places A and B, and meets the first Poft after so many Days as is of the faid Distance. between them? I demand the Number of Miles No. 97. Two Men depart at the fame Time, one from London the other from Lincoln, keeping the fame Road, and when they meet, fays A to B, I find I have travelled 20 Miles more than you, and have gone as much in 6 Days as you have done hitherto; I know, fays the other, you are the best Walker, but if I go on as I have done, I fhall finifh my Journey in 15 Days hence. What was the Distance of the Places, and how much did they travel per Day? 1x+20= the Miles gone by A, when they meet. 2 x=what B goes in the fame Time. 32x+20 the whole Distance. 1 + 2 Then x+20 20x + 400 7X+20 845** = 20xx + 800x + 8000 - 20xx 9 25**= 800x + 8000 8 9÷25 10-32x 11 CO 1 2 vu 2 10 x 32*+320 13 + 16 14 x 40 by the ift.15x+20=60 1415 116 2x+20= 100 the whole Distance in Miles. A goes 6 Miles per Day, and B 4. No. 98. A defires B, to let him know how many Pounds he had in his Purfe; B anfwered if I double the Number, and add 20 more than the square Root of the Sum doubled, to the doubled Sum, and laftly add this Sum to its Square, the Number of my Pounds would then be 194040. Now how many is in the Purfe? yy+y+,25=194040,25 6y+,5 = √194040,25 = 440,5 81xx+x+20= 440 by Reftitution. 20 9 10 xx + x +,25 = 420,25 11x+25= √ 420,2520,5 ,512 = 20 by the aft 13xx 200 the Pounds in the Purfe. 2 No. 99. Two Travellers fet out at the fame Time from two Cities which are 129 Miles afunder, one of them goes 6 Miles every Day, and the other 2 Miles the |