Old School Math Challenge: Tackling 1937's Advanced Ratio Puzzles
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Today we have a textbook from 1937 with a problem set on ratios. These are harder than your average ratio problems, so we can be confident this was testing more advanced students. But we can also see a stark contrast to the context-ified problems of modern textbooks. There is a tiny bit of context about a man's salary, but outside of that, this is basically purely symbolic manipulation (with a bit of geometry thrown in as well).
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