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This is treated in all the same ways as the above subject of partnership. I shall present a single problem wherein will appear all the ways of treating such problems, which is the following. (B.121) From a mass consisting of a mixture of ten ounces of gold, fourteen of silver and twenty of brass a part is taken which weighs twelve ounces. How much of each metal is there in this part?
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Sesiano, J. (2014). Chapter (B–V) on Masses. In: The Liber mahameleth . Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03940-4_49
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