| John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...others were taken. In the second method, having stated the proportion, according to the proper rule, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the fourth term required, for the natural numbers. Or, in working by logarithms,... | |
| James Thompson - Arithmetic - 1808 - 176 pages
...term ; and that which is of the same name or quality with the answer required, the second term. Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first. The quotient will be the fourth term or answer, in the same name or denomination as the second term... | |
| Zachariah Jess - Arithmetic - 1810 - 222 pages
...IN VULGAR FRACTIONS. DIRECT PROPORTION. RULE. Prepare the given terms, if recessary, by reduction, and state them as in whole numbers ; multiply the second and third terms together, and divide that produit by the first ; Or, Invert the dividing term, and multiply the three together for the fractional... | |
| Francis Nichols - Plane trigonometry - 1811 - 162 pages
...analogy be formed according to the proper rule above delivered; then, if the natural numbers be used, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first; the quotient will be the fourth term required. If logarithms be used, add the logarithms of the second... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...as much greater, or less than the third, as the second term is greater, or less than the first, then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term, and the quotient will be the answer ; — in the same denomination with the third term. EXAMPLES.... | |
| Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...either ; and if the second term consist of several denominations, reduce it to the lowest thereof: then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first ; the' quotient will be the fourth term, or answer, in the same denomination as the second, or that... | |
| Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...denomination ; and reduce the middle number, or term, into the lowest denomination mentioned : then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first ; the quotient will be the answer, or fourth term sought ; and always will be of the same depomiiuition... | |
| John Gough - Arithmetic - 1813 - 358 pages
...fraction must be of th« same name or kind, and reduced to fractions of the same name or denominator. Multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first; the quotient is the fourth term required ; due regard being had to the rules laid down for multiplying,... | |
| Zachariah Jess - Arithmetic - 1813 - 228 pages
...and state them as in whole numbers ; multiply the second and third terms together, and divide that product by the first ; Or, • Invert the dividing term, and multiply the three together for the fractional answer. f Note. When the dividing term is inverted, the note to case 5... | |
| Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 540 pages
...in either. Likewise the second term must be reduced to the lowest denomination mentioned in it. IV. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first ; the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer, in the same denomination into which the second term... | |
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