A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic: Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations; with Forms of Accounts, and Other Writings Usually Occurring in Trade

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S. & E. Butler, proprietors of the copy right.--Sold also by Hudson & Goodwin, Oliver D. Cooke, and Lincoln & Gleason, Hartford; Beers & Howe, and Increase Cooke & Company New-Haven. T. M. Pomroy, printer, 1807 - Arithmetic - 274 pages
 

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Page 114 - Compute the interest on the principal sum, from the time when the interest commenced, to the first time when a payment was made, which exceeds, either alone, or in conjunction with the preceding payments, if any, the interest at that time due ; add that interest to the principal, and from...
Page 273 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 251 - ... above the upper deck, the breadth thereof, at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and shall then deduct from the...
Page 229 - Arithmetical, viz. 1. The first term. 2. The last term. 3. The number of terms.
Page 74 - FRACTIONS, or broken numbers, are expressions for any assignable parts of an unit ; and are represented by two numbers, placed one above the other, with a line drawn between them. The number above the line is called the numerator, and that below the line the denominator.
Page 141 - EXAMPLES. ."1. A schoolmaster being asked how many scholars he had, said, If I had as many more as I now have...
Page 227 - A man is to travel from Boston to a certain place in 12 days, and to go but 3 miles the first day, increasing every day by an equal excess, so that the last day's journey may be 58 miles : what is the daily increase, and how many miles distant is that place from Boston ? Ans.
Page 57 - Write the given numbers perpendicularly under each other for dividends, proceeding orderly from the least to the greatest; opposite to each dividend, on the left hand, place such a number for a divisor, as will bring it to the next superior denomination, and draw a line between them.
Page 142 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of tire products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 5. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 99 - RULE. Multiply the principal by the rate per cent. and divide the product by 100, and the quotient is the answer for one year.

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