| Charles Davies - 1861 - 496 σελίδες
...be less than the 4th: hence, T/ 8 x 12 is written in the first place, and 6 x 18 in the second. 2. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, working 9 hours a day (that is, in 108 hours), how many men will accomplish the same work in 6 days,... | |
| Walter McLeod - 1863 - 154 σελίδες
...= — _— = 44lVy miles. Ans. NB — Questions 16 and 19 may be solved in the same way. Ques. 12. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, required the number of men who could perform another piece of work, 3 times as great, in ^th part of... | |
| John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1864 - 236 σελίδες
...2. If £15 12s. pay 1 6 labourers for 18 days, how many labourers will £35 2s. pay for 24 days ? 3. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, required the number of men, who could perform another piece of work, 3 times as great, in 3th part... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1865 - 184 σελίδες
...cwt. are carried the distance of 50 miles for £5, how much will 40 cwt. cost if carried 40 miles ? 6. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, required the number of men who could perform another piece of work, 3 times as great, in | part of... | |
| Thomas Percy Hudson - 1866 - 268 σελίδες
...Js. a bushel, what should be the weight of the shilling loaf when wheat is 7s. 6d. a bushel? (17.) If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, how many men will perform a piece of work half as large again in a fifth part of the time, if they work the same number... | |
| Charles Davies - 1867 - 354 σελίδες
...the time, said, the time past uoon is equal to -£ of the time past midnight : what was the hour? 39. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, how many men will accomplish thrice as much in one-fifth of the time ? 40. How many stones 2 feet long. 1 foot wide, and 6 inches... | |
| Richard Dunkley Beasley - 1867 - 216 σελίδες
...second set in 1j hours, and the second set work half as long a day as the first set? Ans. 135 days. 36. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, how many men will perform a piece of work half as large again in a fifth part of the time, if they work the same number... | |
| William Harding Girdlestone - 1867 - 368 σελίδες
...A) = 2J of \S t ?} ; find two whole numbers which shall be to each other in the ratio of A to S. 12. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, how many men will perform a piece of work half as large again in a fifth part of the time, if they work the same number... | |
| Henry Austin Oram - 1869 - 168 σελίδες
...£500, gains £100 in 14 months, in what time will he gain £60. 10s. with a capital of £770 ? 36. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, how many will perform a piece 3 times as great in onefifth of the time ? 37. If 15 oxen eat an acre of grass... | |
| Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1872 - 338 σελίδες
...at 6d. per yard; also the cost of carpeting it with carpet 5 quarters wide at 2s. 4|A per yard. 6. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, how many •will perform another piece of work 6 times as great in one-tenth of the time? 7. If 3 men mow 20... | |
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