A New System of Arithmetic, on the Cancelling Plan: Embracing the Rules of the Three, Single and Double, Direct and Inverse; Barter; Loss and Gain; Reduction; Multiplication and Division of Fractions; Exchange of Currencies; Interest; and All Proportional Questions in One Rule Applicable to the Whole. The Process Greatly Simplified and Abridged |
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12 hours long 12 rods acres amount Answer barrel barter bought bushels called cancelling ciphers circumference cloth cost column compound interest contained cords cube root currency decimal fraction denominator diameter discount divided dividend Division divisor dollars dominical letter equal EXAMPLES factors farthings feet foot frac gain gallons given number guineas hand figure horse hundred hundredths improper fraction inches least common multiple left hand length less merator miles minuend mixed number months multiplicand multiply NOTE number of terms Operation paid pence perpendicular pound present worth PROB produced term Proportion quantity QUESTIONS quotient ratio receive Reduce remainder right hand rods sell shillings side sold solid square root subtract tens tenths tion Troy Weight unit's place units vulgar fraction weight whole number write yard cost yards of cloth
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Page 93 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 31 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 211 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 198 - Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the equated time, nearly.
Page 87 - TABLE. 10 Mills =1 Cent. 10 Cents =1 Dime. 10 Dimes =1 Dollar. 10 Dollars =1 Eagle.
Page 297 - America, to be paid to the said or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns: to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Page 260 - ... above the upper deck ; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and...
Page 75 - Divide by any number that will divide two or more of the given numbers without a remainder, and set the quotients, together with the undivided numbers, in a line beneath.
Page 241 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 213 - The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides ; as, 5033 402+302.