113 CHAPTER VI-MIXED PROBLEMS. Examples in illustration thereof. 98. Four men obtained their shares in successively doubled, proportions and with successively doubled differences in addition, the first man obtaming one share 67 (is the quantity so to be distributed) here. What is the share of cach? 99. (A sum of) 78 is divided by these four (among them- selves) in proportions which are successively from the first 1 times (what precedes) and with differences in addition, which,) commencing with 1, (go on) increasing three-fold. Give out the (value of the) parts obtained (by cach.) 100 (The shares of) five (persons) are (successively) from the first 1 times (what goes before), and the differences in addition are quantities which are (successively) 23 times (the preceding difference) 51 is (the total quantity) to be divided. (Find out the values of the portions obtained by each) 101. (A sum of) 400 manus 15 is divided by four men (among themselves) in proportions which from the first are 2 times (what precedes), and which (besides) are less by differences which are (successively) 4 times (the preceding difference). (Find out the values of the various portions obtained.) The rule for arriving at the value of the prices producing equal sale-proceeds and the value of the highest capital (invested in the transactions concerned) :- 102. The largest capital (invested) combined with one becomes the vending rate of the commodity (to be sold). That (same vending rate), multiplied by the (given) price at which the remnant is to be sold, and diminished by one, gives rise to the 98. The difference quantity to be added to the shares here is 1 in the case of the second man, and twice the preceding difference in the case of each of the remaining two men, and this difference in the case of the second man is not expressly mentioned as 1 in this example as well as in the example in stanza 1011. 1024 The examples bearing on this rule contemplate the purchase of a commodity at a certain common ate for various capital amounts, then the commodity so purchased is to be sold at a certain other common rate. That quantity of the commodity which is left over, owing to its not being enough to be sold for a unit of the kind of money employed in the transaction, is here
