Note the rhetorical problem statement. Find the heep if the heap and a seventh of the heep is 19. Use the method of false position . Let be the guess. Now solve .
Most geometry is related to mensuration.
In one problem the area for the quadrilateral was given by which of course is wrong in general but correct for rectangles. This formula is quite accurate if the quadrilateral in question is nearly a rectangle. There is in Egyptian mathematics a search for relationships, but the Egyptians had only a vague distinction between the exact and the approximate . Formulas were not evident. Only solutions to specific problems were given, from which the student was left to generalize to other circumstances.