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 amount ANALYSIS annex bank barrels bill bought bushels cash centiares ciphers column commission common denominator common difference common fraction compound interest containing continued fraction cost cube root cubic currency decimal decimal places decimetre discount dividend division dollars draft equal EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE excess of 9's following RULE gain gallon geometrical progression given number gold greatest common divisor hectometres Hence the following Hence the RULE hundred improper fraction insured invested last term least common multiple length lowest terms merchant metre metric system miles minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply myriametres number of terms obtain OPERATION paid payable payment pound premium prime factors principal unit proceeds proportional purchase quantity quotient rate per cent ratio received Reduce remainder repetend sell sold subtract trial divisor worth write yards
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Page 298 - 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 153 - 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 428 - 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 64 - 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 422 - 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 154 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 85 - 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 60 - 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 89 - Multiply together the numerators for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 373 - 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.