"One hundred buns for one hundred monks. Three senior monks will not fight over one bun. Three junior monks will share one bun. How many buns should each monk have?"
As soon as Ji Jiu asked this question, the huge Jiuzhang Hall fell silent. However, the noise outside the Jiuzhang Hall was a little louder. People who didn't know much about mathematics couldn't help but ask the people around them who seemed to have some knowledge of mathematics. And those who knew a little about mathematics were wondering if they had heard it wrong.
Although this problem is not so simple that it can be solved easily, compared with the previous questions that made people doubt their lives, it is really too easy. It is as easy as the question posed by the Fourth Prince!
Sure enough, in an instant, everyone in the Jiuzhang Hall was scrambling to answer, and the voices rose and fell, and everyone was afraid that they would fall behind. Because everyone knew that in the previous competition, such a simple question only appeared once, and they didn't expect that all of them fell on the heads of the eighth group.
Zhang Shou didn't wait for anyone to give an answer, and he patted the armrest. He found that the dozen people finally quieted down. Ji Jiu, the instigator, looked a little panicked, as if he didn't expect such a result, while the fourth prince looked a little angry. He said calmly: "Please use the two-variable linear equation in Ge's Mathematical Classic to solve this problem."
"Lu Sanlang, give them white paper and pens, and ask them to write equations one by one and then solve them. Go out and inform the others to write equations to solve this problem. This question is an additional question."
As soon as these words came out, the Jiuzhang Hall, which had just been lively, suddenly fell silent again. Not long after, a middle-aged candidate from Group 8 who had just come in with Ji Jiu and the Fourth Prince shouted indignantly: "I have already solved this problem mentally, why do I have to write an equation?"
"This problem itself is not difficult. If you know the trick, you can solve it easily. The reason why I asked you to write the equation is because the standard textbook used by Jiuzhang Hall in the future is "Ge's New Edition of Mathematics". After this book was printed, it has been circulated in the capital for a long time. Those who are interested in Jiuzhang Hall should at least not miss this book, let alone the equation chapter in it."
"What's more, because of the teacher's request, the bookstore that sells this book has set up a special place for people to copy it, so not being able to afford it is not an excuse, because those who can't afford it can at least copy the book for study. If you apply for Jiuzhang Hall, but you have never understood and comprehended the most basic equation chapter in Ge's New Compilation of Mathematics, or even have no concept of it, then it's really unreasonable."
The middle-aged candidate who had just spoken turned pale and blushed, and then protested unconvincedly: "Grandmaster Ge's New Edition of Mathematics is very famous, but it is completely different from the previous Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art and Zhoubi Mathematical Classic. Even those who study mathematics may not be able to read it! Since it is the Nine Chapters Hall, of course we should study the long-standing Mathematical Classics!"
Faced with such doubts, Zhang Shou was not angry at all. He glanced at those who took the paper and pen, as well as the wooden board used as a base, from Lu Sanlang and immediately began to write quickly. Then he smiled at the middle-aged candidate.