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Builder’s old measurement was instituted by law in England in1773 as the way to estimate the total tonnage
In this Exercise, we consider wooden ships of length 120 feet.
a. What tonnage is given by the Builder’s Old Measurement for a ship of beam width 25 feet?
b. What beam width will give a tonnage of 400?
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