The Scholar's Arithmetic; Or, Federal Accountant...: The Whole in a Form and Method Altogether New, for the Ease of the Master and the Greater Progress of the Scholar |
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acres added addition annexed answer bushels cents and mills cloth cost column compound interest contained cube root currency cyphers Decimal Fractions diameter divide dividend divisor dollars Dolls DRY MEASURE equal EXAMPLES Federal Money feet gain gallons given number given quantity given sum guineas hundred improper fraction inches integer interest Inverse last quotient figure left hand length lowest denomination measure miles mills per yard minuend mixed number moidores months multiplicand multiply N. E. cur New-England New-York OPERATION ounces payment pence and farthings penny pounds proceed PROOF proportion question reckoned Reduce remainder right hand figure Rule of Three scholar Scholar's Arithmetic separatrix share shew side signifies Single Rule sought square root subtract subtrahend superficial contents Suppose third term triple quotient triple square TROY WEIGHT units Vulgar Fractions weight whole numbers yards cost yards of cloth
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Page 215 - RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator: then reduce the new fraction to its lowest terms.
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Page 205 - A and B cleared, by an adventure at sea, 45 guineas, which was 35 £. per cent. upon the money advanced, and with which they agreed to purchase a genteel horse and carriage, whereof they were to have the use in proportion to the sums adventured, which was found to be 11 to A, as often as 8 to B ; what money did each adventure ? Ans. A 104£. 4 s. 2-$ d., B 75£. 15s. 9/F d. 141. Tubes may be made of gold, weighing not mor« than at the rate of 16^6 of a grain per foot?
Page 204 - There is an island 20 miles in circumference, and three men start together to travel the same way about it...
Page 197 - The present worth of any sum or debt, due some time hence, ifl such a sum, as if put to interest, would in that time and at the rate per cent, for which the discount is to be made, amount to the sum or debt then due.
Page 72 - ... from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 163 - Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units.