The poet Longfellow, in his novel Kavanagh, introduced several clever mathematical problems from an ancient Sanskrit work.
Here is one of those problems:
"One-fifth of a hive of bees flew to the
ladamba flower ; one-third flew to the Slandbara; three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbor;
and one bee continued flying about, attracted on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and the Malati.
What was the number of the bees?"
You must show your algebra to get credit.