A Practical Introduction to Arithmetic: Or, The Teacher of Arithmetic's Assistant: Containing, Arithmetic of Whole Numbers, with Vulgar, Decimal, and Duodecimal Fractions. To which is Added, an Appendix of Directions and Examples for Receipts, Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Bills of Parcels, Bills of Book-debts, and Letters; with Various Exercises on the Same |
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Accompt Anfwer Annum Barrel Barter Bills of Exchange Bought Bufhel Cloth coft Compound Intereft Crowns Cyphers Days Decimal Places Denomination Difcount ditto Divide Dividend Divifion Divifor DRY MEASURE Ells fame Farthings fecond fhould Find the Amount Find the Intereft firft fold fome fometimes Fraction Ft 8in ftand fuch Gain or Lofs Gallons George Hammond Grofs Guilders Guineas Hogfhead improper Fraction Inches Infurance laft lefs London Mafter MEASURE Milrea Moidores Money Months muft Mult Multiplicand Multiply muſt Neat Weight Pence Perfon Piece of Eight pleaſe Pounds Prefent Price Product Promife to pay Promiffory Notes proper Quantity Purchaſe Quarter Guineas Quotient Receipts Reduce Rule of Three Shillings Sterling Stock Subtraction Sugar Sum or Number Suppofe Tare thefe thro Tret Troy TROY WEIGHT Ufance Uſe Value received Vulgar Fractions Weeks Whole Numbers worth Yards
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Page 44 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the given numerator.
Page 43 - Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Page 52 - ... 1 from 5 to 15 ; 2 from 15 to 25 ; 3 from 25 to 35, &c.
Page 61 - Feet multiplied by feet, give feet. Feet multiplied by inches, give inches. Feet multiplied by seconds, give seconds. Inches multiplied by inches, give seconds. Inches multiplied by seconds, give thirds. Seconds multiplied "by seconds, give fourths.
Page 42 - ... can do a piece of work in 28 days. How many men could do it in 84 days?
Page 43 - J,T, }g¿, &c. 2. An IMPROPER FRACTION is when the numerator is equal to, or greater than the denominator, as f, f, $%, 'f 7, &c.
Page 48 - ... the numerator of the divifor into the denominator of the dividend, for a new denominator.
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