Mr. Jones and Mr. Barnsworth went to purchase some bottles of wine for their employer, Acme Wine Depot.<\/p>\n
They went to Dufour Wineries Inc., as they had heard boasts of a fine selection of French wines there.<\/p>\n
Mr. Jones and Mr. Barnsworth decided to select only two wine types, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon from the Bordeaux region in France.<\/p>\n
They bought 90 bottles in total of these two types of wine.<\/p>\n
While purchasing the wine at the Dufour Wineries Inc., Mr. Dufour invited them to sample several other wines for \u201cfuture reference.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a bountiful sampling session with French cheese, all served by a jolie serveuse, Mr. Jones and Mr. Barnsworth managed to return home by taxi, but lost the invoice on the way.<\/p>\n
Next day, fearful of reproach and penalties from the accountant at the Acme Wine Depot, they tried to reconstruct the purchase from a fuzzy memory.<\/p>\n
Mr. Jones managed to remember that he had bought half as many Merlot and a third as many Cabernet Sauvignon as Mr. Barnsworth, for a total sum of 360 dollars. He also remembered that three bottles of Merlot cost as much as two bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon.<\/p>\n
Before going to work that day, they proceeded with the painful process of working out how much Mr. Barnsworth had bought, and the full cost of their purchase.<\/p>\n
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