The Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic and Business Manual ...Eldredge & Brother, 1891 |
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30 days Account Sales amount annuity average avoirdupois balance bank bbls bill of exchange Bill of Lading bonds bushel capital cash charges ciphers commission common fraction compound interest cost coupon bonds cube cubic inches debt decimal diameter difference discount divide the product dividend divisor draft duty equal EXAMPLES figure Firm's fraction francs Freight Frustum gallons given number gold grain greatest common divisor indorsed insured investment invoice July long ton Mdse merchant MESSRS milreis months Multiply number of days paid par value partner payable payment person Philadelphia pints pound pound sterling premium present worth principal profit promise to pay proportion purchased quotient rate per cent receipt Reichsmarks Rule Rule.-Divide Rule.-Multiply selling price share shillings side sold square feet square root United value received weight whole number yards
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Page 370 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 364 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand...
Page 232 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 58 - When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers.
Page 282 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 360 - The holder of a bill presenting the same for acceptance may require that the acceptance be written on the bill and, if such request is refused, may treat the bill as dishonored.
Page 147 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, .taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal, and interest is to be computed on the balance as aforesaid.
Page 282 - To find the Diameter of a Circle when the Circumference is given. Rule.
Page 29 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor of 36 and 54, since it is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder.
Page 289 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.