Practical Arithmetic: Or, The Rule of Practice Methodized & Improved. Wherein are Contained All the Necessary Cases, & Several Examples Wrought Under Each Case, with Many Contractions ... To which are Added, the Most Concise Methods of Finding the Value of Goods Sold by Particular Quantities ... Also Duodecimals by Practice ... |
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Page 7 - To reduce an improper fraction to a whole or mixed number, — RULE : Divide the numerator by the denominator ; the quotient will be the whole or mixed number. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.
Page 225 - Gross is the weight of the goods, together with that in which they are contained. Neat is the weight of the goods, after all allowances are deducted.
Page 76 - III"] and for the remaining Part of the Price, let it be taken out of the foregoing Part or Parts as before.
Page 225 - Tare is an allowance to the buyer, for the weight of the box, cask, or bag, &c.
Page 119 - Case 10. When the Price is Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, and the Shillings and Pence are an aliquot Part of a Pound. RULE. Multiply the given Quantity by the Pounds, as in the last Rule ; and take Parts for the Shillings and Pence, as in Case 6 ; add them together, and the Sum will be the Answer.
Page 38 - Remainder, if any, by that Number of the next inferior Denomination which makes one of its fuperior, adding to the Produit what there is in the Dividend of...
Page 75 - Example may be taken thusj a -Halfpenny is the Half of a Penny, and a Farthing is the Half of of a Halfpenny, &c.
Page 1 - Parts of Numbers. An aliquot Part of any Number is fuch, that if the faid Part be taken certain Times, it lhall juit make thç Number whereof it is a Part.