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Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course – Solution to Rule of Three Problem

Author(s): 
Adrian Rice (Randolph-Macon College)

In this Rule of Three problem, a=750, b=22,500, and c=1200. Therefore,
x=22,500×1200750=36,000.

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Adrian Rice (Randolph-Macon College), "Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course – Solution to Rule of Three Problem," Convergence (September 2021)

Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course