Suppose, 2/3 of 2/3 of a certain quantity of barley is taken, 100 units of barley are added and the original quantity recovered. find the quantity of barley? This is a real question from the Babylonian, posited 4 millenia ago...
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Sep 12, 2016
Explanation:
Let the quantity of barley be
It is mentioned that this is equal to the original quantity, hence