 | Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...term, iJce last term, and the number of terms being given,, to find ike common' difference. RULE.* Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less i, and the quotient will be the common difference sought. EXAMPLES. i. The extremes are 2 and 53, and... | |
 | William M. Finlay - Accounting - 1803 - 272 pages
...IV. Given the first term, the last term, and number of terms, to find the common difference. RULE.— Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of •terms less I— the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLE. jGhren 3, the first, 39 the last, and 19... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Algebra - 1808 - 470 pages
...Tbejlrtt term, the last term, and the number of terms being given, tojind the common difference. RULE.* Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference sought. EXAMPLES. 1st. The extremes are 3 and 39,... | |
 | Zachariah Jess - Arithmetic - 1810 - 222 pages
...two extremes and number of terms are given, and the common difference of all the terms required ; . Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...one,, the quotient will be the common difference. E \X AMPLES. l Admit, a debt be discharged at 16 several payments in arithmetical progression ; the... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1810 - 190 pages
...difference. Hence, when the extremes and number of terms are given, tn fnd the common difference,—' Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 6. If the extremes be 3 and 603, and the number... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...CASE 2. When, the two extremes and number of ternis are given, to find the common difference. RULÉ. . Divide 'the difference of the extremes by the number...one ; the quotient will be the .common difference. EkAMPLES. , j 1. 20 and 60 are the two extremes of a certain series in arithmetical progression, and... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1815 - 250 pages
...The first term, the last term, and the number of terms given, to find the common difference. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLE8. 1. The extremes are 3 and 29, and the... | |
 | Thomas Dilworth - Arithmetic - 1818 - 222 pages
...difference of all the terms in that series are required, then, Divide the difference between the two extremes, by the number of terms, less one ; the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. There are 21 men, whose agts are equally different from each other in Arithmetical Progression ; the... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1818 - 264 pages
...PROBLEM II. The first term, the last term, and the number of terms to find the COMMON DIFFERENCE. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less by i, and the quotient will be the common difference required. EXAMPLES. 1. If the extremes be 3 and... | |
 | Zachariah Jess - Arithmetic - 1824 - 228 pages
...extremes and number of terms are given, and the common difference of all the terms required ; RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1 Admit a debt be discharged at 16 several payments in arithmetical progression ; the first to be 14?.... | |
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Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 
