History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v1.c8.s13.58

v1.c8.s13.58

(3) "Here (in this problem) the (given) capital amounts are 40, 30, 20 and 50; and 10, 6, 3 and 15 are the (corresponding) amounts of interest; 18 is the quantity representing the mixed sum of the respective periods of time. (Find out these periods separately, assuming the rate of interest to be the same in each case)."³