Question: 3. Solve one of Qin's problems (adapted from [E.5.10, Chapter 22]). Does it seem any more realistic than any 'word problems' you did in high

 3. Solve one of Qin's problems (adapted from [E.5.10, Chapter 22]).

3. Solve one of Qin's problems (adapted from [E.5.10, Chapter 22]). Does it seem any more realistic than any 'word problems' you did in high school? Thieves have stolen rice, measured in ge (today, about 100 milliliters), from three identical full containers. The first thief stole all but one ge from the first container with a ladle containing 19 ge; the second one left fourteen ge after stealing with a shoe which could hold 17 ge; the third left only one ge, using a bowl which held 12 ge. How much rice was lost, and how much did each thief take

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