
Algebra: Structure And Method, Book 1
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ISBN: 9780395977224
Author: Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, William L. Cole
Publisher: McDougal Littell
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I bought sparrows at 3 for a penny, turtle doves at 2 for a penny, and
doves at 2 pence each. If I spent 30 pence buying 30 birds and bought
at least one of each kind of bird, how many birds of each kind did I buy?
(This is a problem from Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci, 1202.)
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