 | Thomas Whiting - Arithmetic - 1787 - 276 pages
...Blank fall under the firfl or fécond Place, multiply the third and fourth together for a Divifor, and the other three for a Dividend, and the Quotient will be the Anfwer. . Proof. By varying their order, or by two Operations in the Single Rule of Three. EXAMPLE.... | |
 | Paul Deighan - Arithmetic - 1804 - 504 pages
...fifth of the lame T 2 name name with the fecond. Then multiply the firft and fecond for a divifor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the 6th or anfwer fought, when direft. £. m. £. £. m. The foregoing queftion 240 — 16 — §4 —... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1817 - 252 pages
...first or second term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. If 7 men can build 86 rods of wall in 3 days ; how many rods can 20 men build in 14 days... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1818 - 264 pages
...first, or second term, the proportion is Inverse; then multiply the third and fourth term toijetWer for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend ; and the quotient will be the answer. 4. Reduce the similar terms to the same denomination, if necessary. 5. Multiply the terms in the second... | |
 | Thomas Dilworth - Arithmetic - 1818 - 222 pages
...Place the other two terms under their like in the su? position. • 4. If the blank falls under tlie third term, multiply the first. and second terms for a divisor, and the other three lor a dividend. 5. If the hhnk falls under the first or second term, multiply the third and fourth... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1818 - 246 pages
...term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, afid the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answdr. EXAMPLES. 1. If 7 men can build 36 rods of wall iu 3 days; how many rods can 20 men build in... | |
 | Beriah Stevens - Arithmetic - 1822 - 436 pages
...name, and the third and fifth of the same, also. ' Then multiply the third and fourth numbers together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend and the quotient will be the answer, in the same name with the first number. EXAMPLES. 1. If £100, in 12 months, gain £6, what principal... | |
 | Jacob Willetts - Arithmetic - 1822 - 200 pages
...those which are of the same name. 5. If the blank fall under the third term, then multiply the firrt and second terms for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend. 6. If the blank fall under the first or second term, multiply the third md fourth terms for a divisor,... | |
 | James L. Connolly (mathematician.) - Arithmetic - 1829 - 266 pages
...first or second ' term, the proportion is inverse. Then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. Tf 7 men can make 36 rods of the turnpike road in 3 days, how many rods can 18 men make... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Arithmetic - 1830 - 306 pages
...the answer. 6. But if this blank place fall under the 1st or 2d term, then multiply the 3d and 4th terms for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. 13. If two men can do 12 rods of ditching in 6 days, what will 8 men do in 24 days ? 123' 2:6: 12 ::... | |
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... but if the blank fall under the first or second term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 
