 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1832 - 366 pages
...\\as to be money, and therefore the money in the question, 40 pence, was placed in the third place. When this is done, we next consider whether the answer will be greater or less than this, and place the greater or less of the other two terms next it in the second place, and the other... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1838 - 292 pages
...same kind with tht answer sought in the third place, and then consider from the nature of the question whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. ' III. When the answer is greater than the third term, write the least of the remaining numbers in... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1844 - 246 pages
...answer, for the third term of a proportion. Of the remaining quantities, compare any two of a kind, and consider whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. If greater, write the greater number for the second term, and the less for the first. If less, write... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 258 pages
...answer, for the third term of a proportion. Of the remaining quantities, compare any two of a kind, and consider whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. If greater, write the greater number for the second term, and the less for the first. If less, write... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1844 - 358 pages
...same kind with the answer sought in the third place, and then consider from the nature of the question whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. III. When the answer is greater than the third term, write the least of the remaining numbers in the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1846 - 378 pages
...same kind with the answer sought in the third place, and then consider from the nature of the question whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. ^ III. When the answer is greater than the third term, write the least of the remaining numbers in... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1847 - 368 pages
...same kind with the answer sought in the third place, and then consider from the nature of the question whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. III. When the answer is greater than the third term, write. the least of the remaining numbers in the... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1848 - 244 pages
...answer, for the third term of a proportion. Of the remaining quantities, compare any two of a kind, and consider whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. If greater, write the greater number for the second term, and the less for the first. If less, write... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1850 - 412 pages
...same kind with the answer sought in the third place, and then consider from the nature of the question whether the answer will be greater or less than the third term. III. When the answer is greater than the third term, write the least of the remaining numbers in the... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1853 - 360 pages
...last question the answer was to be money, and therefore the money in the question, 40 ;•<• :i..-c, was placed as the third term. When this is done, we...As, for example, 40 men will do a piece of work in 1 5 days, in how many days will 20 men do the same ? Here the answer must "be days; consequently, 15... | |
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Reduce the two numbers which have different names from the answer sought, to the lowest denomination named in either of them. II. Set the number which is of the same kind with the answer sought in the third place, and then consider from the nature of... 
