153. The charge on a major income is the same in amount as that on a
minor one, which is 2½ per cent. of their mutual difference, but
the rate imposed on the overplus of a major income is 4 per cent., so
that on a composite income of the major and minor the charge would be
£3 8s. Required the major and minor incomes.
“Your Money or Your Life!”
154. Two gentlemen, A and B, with £100 and £48 respectively, having
to perform a long journey through a lonely part of the country, agree
to travel together for purposes of safety; they are, however, taken
unawares by a gang of bushrangers who, calling upon them to “bail
up,” ease them of some of their cash. The leader of the gang was
satisfied with taking twice as much from A as from B, and left to A
three times as much as to B. How much was taken from each?
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