Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/353 - The Three Sugar Basins

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 * The Three Sugar Basins
 * Three basins each contain the same number of lumps of sugar,
 * and nine cups are empty.
 * If we transfer to each cup one-eighteenth of the number of lumps that each basin contains,
 * we then find that each basin holds $12$ more lumps than each of the cups.
 * How many lumps are there in each basin before they are removed?