The price of a gemstone is proportional to the square of its weight. A piece of such a stone, valued at 1 million dollars is somehow broken in five different pieces , all equal in size . What would be the loss/profit incurred in this accident ?
There is something I don't understand about algebra: It has been around for thousands of years, yet no one has ever found out what the value of "x" or "y" really is.
Richard van der Merwe
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