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A certain merchant increases the value of his estate by 1/3, he also spends 100£ yearly on his family. After three years he finds the value of his estate has doubled. What was he originally worth?
Isaac Newton, Universal Arithmetick, 1728
Click here to reveal the answer"A Successful Businessman," Loci (July 2006)