Virginia Foster asked: The goods vary from sacks of cheap hay to bags of valuable jewelry, so for convenience of accounting the merchant loaded
1st camel with 10dinar worth of goods,
2nd camel with 20dinar worth of goods,
3rd camel with 30dinar worth of goods,
and so on, each next camel carries 10 dinar worth of goods more.
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The merchant [...]