Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes/Problems/30 - De Basilica
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Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes by Alcuin of York: Problem $30$
- De Basilica
- A Basilica
- A basilica is $240$ feet long and $120$ feet wide.
- It is paved with paving stones one foot $11$ inches long
- and $12$ inches, that is one foot, wide.
- How many stones are needed?
Solution
It takes:
- $126$ paving stones to cover the length of $240$ feet
- and $120$ paving stones to cover the width of $120$ feet.
That is the number of paving stones required to pave the basilica.
Sources
- c. 800: Alcuin of York: Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes ... (previous) ... (next)
- 1992: John Hadley/2 and David Singmaster: Problems to Sharpen the Young (Math. Gazette Vol. 76, no. 475: pp. 102 – 126) www.jstor.org/stable/3620384