The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods; Forming a Complete Course of Higher Arithmetic |
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12 per cent acres added allowing amount annexed answer balance bank barrels becomes bill bought bushels called cent Change ciphers circle column common compound interest contain cords cost cube decimal denominator denoting diameter difference discount Divide dividend division divisor dollars equal EXAMPLES exchange expressed extremes factors feet figures fraction gain gallons give given Hence hundred inches interest least less loss mean measure method miles mixed months Multiply NOTE obtain OPERATION paid payment period places pounds premium present prime principal proceeds proportion purchased quantity quotient rate per cent ratio received Reduce remainder repetend result root RULE share shillings side simple sold square subtract taken tens term third thousand tons true units weight whole number worth write yards
Popular passages
Page 168 - Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 322 - B. $380, to be paid as follows: $100 in 6 months, $120 in 7 months, and $160 in 10 months. What is the equated time for the payment of the whole ? Ans.
Page 44 - The Dividend is the number to be divided. The Divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 382 - Multiply the divisor, thus increased, by the last figure of the root; subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend. 5. Double the whole root already found for a new divisor, and continue the operation as before, until all the periods are brought down.
Page 276 - But if any payment be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year; add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as above.
Page 204 - To multiply a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier ; and if there be not places enough in the number, annex ciphers.
Page 24 - Addition is the process of finding the sum of two or more numbers.
Page 322 - B $ 600, of which $ 200 is to be paid at the present time, 200 in 4 months, and 200 in 8 months ; what is the equated time for the payment of the whole ? Ans.
Page 93 - ... 5760 NOTE 1. — In this weight the pound, ounce, and grain are the same as in Troy Weight. NOTE 2. — Medicines are usually bought and sold by Avoirdupois Weight NOTE 3.
Page 357 - Sixty days after sight of this, my first Bill of Exchange, (second and third of the same date and tenor unpaid,) pay to Langdon Shannon, or order, one hundred pounds sterling, value received, with or without further advice.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods; Forming a Complete Course of Higher Arithmetic |
| Author | Benjamin Greenleaf |
| Publisher | R. S. Davis, 1860 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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