The Progressive Higher Arithmetic: For Schools, Academies, and Mercantile Colleges. Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods; and Forming a Complete Treatise on Arithmetical Science, and Its Commercial and Business Applications |
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acres added amount ANALYSIS annex bank barrels bought bushels called cent ciphers column commission common common divisor common fraction compound contain continued cost cube cubic decimal decimal places denominator difference discount Divide dividend division divisor dollars equal EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE exchange expressed factors feet figure four fraction gain gallons given given number gold greater greatest hand Hence hundred interest invested least common length less measure method metre miles months Multiply NOTE obtain OPERATION paid payment period person piece places pounds premium prime principal proceeds purchase quantity quotient ratio received Reduce remainder repetend result root RULE sell share side simple sold square standard subtract taken tens term third thousand units weight whole worth write yards
Popular passages
Page 306 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal; and interest is to be Computed on the balance, as aforesaid.
Page 161 - Cubic Measure 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) =1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 432 - When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers.
Page 72 - Divide the less number by the remainder, the last divisor by the last remainder, and so on, till nothing remains. The last divisor will be the greatest common divisor sought.
Page 428 - Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor thereof, one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the States, respectively.
Page 162 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 93 - When necessary, reduce the fractions to their least common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend, from the numerator of the minuend, and place the difference of the new numerators over the common denominator.
Page 68 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor...
Page 97 - Multiply together the numerators for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 381 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Progressive Higher Arithmetic: For Schools, Academies, and Mercantile Colleges. Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods; and Forming a Complete Treatise on Arithmetical Science, and Its Commercial and Business Applications Robinson's mathematical series |
| Author | Horatio Nelson Robinson |
| Publisher | Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1874 |
| Length | 456 pages |
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