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Page 101 - Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result as the first term of the quotient.
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Page 82 - The usual way of expressing division, as has already been explained, is by writing the divisor under the dividend in the form of a fraction. Thus a divided by b is expressed ^. This gives rise to fractions in the same manner as in arithmetic.
Page 236 - The sum of all the terms. Any three of which being given, the other two may be found.
Page 203 - The exponent of a in the first term is the same as the exponent of the power to which the binomial is raised, and it diminishes by one in each succeeding term.
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Page 229 - The points ..... are used to show that some terms are left out of the expression, as it is impossible to express the whole until a particular value is given to n.
Page 222 - In each succeeding term the coefficient is found by multiplying the coefficient of the preceding term by the exponent of a in that term, and dividing by the number of the preceding term.
Page 35 - How many days did he work, and how many days was he idle ? Let x = the number of days he worked.
Page 275 - ... 8 days. But on the evening of the sixth day, 100 men were killed in a sally, and afterwards the mortality increased to 10 daily. Supposing the stock of provisions unconsumed at the end of the sixth day to support 6 men for 61 days; it is required to find how long it would support the garrison, and the number of men alive when the provisions were exhausted.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Introduction to Algebra upon the Inductive Method of Instruction |
| Author | Warren Colburn |
| Publisher | Jordan, Swift & Wiley, 1844 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 276 pages |
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