Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/286 - Unlucky Breakdowns

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 * Unlucky Breakdowns
 * On a day of great festivities, a large crowd gathered for a day's outing and pleasure.
 * They all agreed to pile into a bunch of wagons, each of which was to carry the same number of people.
 * ''But ten of the wagons were found to be non-functional, so each of the other wagons then had to carry one more person than had been planned.'


 * As they were about to start back, it was discovered that $15$ more of these wagons had become unserviceable,
 * and so there were three more people in each working wagon on the way back than on the way there.


 * How many people were there in the party?