School Algebra: First-[second] Course

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Page 90 - The area of a trapezoid is equal to one-half the product of its altitude and the sum of its bases.
Page 194 - My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder nobody else found it out before, when now known it is so easy.
Page 6 - To multiply a polynomial by a monomial, multiply each term of the polynomial by the monomial.
Page 104 - Newton discovered, as a fundamental law of nature, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
Page 119 - The weight of an object above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth.
Page 42 - The product of two or more fractions is a fraction whose numerator is the product of the numerators of the given fractions and whose denominator is the product of the denominators of the given fractions.
Page 185 - If the number is less than 1, make the characteristic of the logarithm negative, and one unit more than the number of zeros between the decimal point and the first significant figure of the given number.
Page 97 - In any proportion, the product of the means equals the product of the extremes.
Page 120 - To divide the number a into two such parts, that, if the first is multiplied by m and the second by n, the sum of the products is b.
Page 181 - The logarithm of a quotient is equal to the logarithm of the dividend minus the logarithm of the divisor.