"SCOURED" AND "GREABY."
Let tis take -anvimaginary wool. sale iii i the raw product iwaS': dffc^ed in:; two •;, classes—viz.^ "scoured '{and "greasy," regaidlesa of grades of quality,- and that two,'"buying": countries only !^vere represented, which may be: times as many..; bales, of,-,scoured wool v^'erebought by "Berlin" as the number it.■ rejected, and exactly.'. five times as ■,'many. .bales of weto'/aecepted 1 Jby .tho; German represe.ntative ■as he j Si Thirteen sixteenths ; of'the : 'number of bales, of v '.'scoured" : wool '■ "offered to'"Bradford" were secured; but the .Yorkshire buyer rejected four-fif- ! teeiiths of -the number Jot bales of j "greasy" that were : offered to him. Sevonty-fivc thousand; four.:., hundred I bales of both classes of wool wcio pur-j chased by; the two agonts, and 'th;e.' question for-the rekdor, to decide is that! if; tho total number of bales of "greasy" offering was half as many again as the! "scoured," what iwere the respective j ;number bought' by r ','Bradfbrd" and I * No, baliea were; offered more | .^lia^",oace.',;•.■!/•■./.:.a-V",.!•' ■,•".'....',•'.'•'■'■ ■■•■ 'j
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 27
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"SCOURED" AND "GREABY."
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 27
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