 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 344 pages
...the answer, the third term. And if, from the nature of the question, the fourth term or answer must be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining terms the second term, and the smaller the first ; but, if the fourth term must be less than the third, make... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1844 - 222 pages
...the answer, the third term. And if, from the nature of the question, the fourth term or answer must be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining terms the second term, and the smaller the first ; but, if the fourth term must be less than the third, make... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 266 pages
...the answer, the third term. And if, from the nature of the question, the fourth term or answer must be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining terms the second term, and the smaller the first; but, if the fourth term must be less than the third, make... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - Arithmetic - 1854 - 336 pages
...sought. the third term of a proportion. II. Then, if by the nature of the question the answer must be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining numbers the second term, and the less the first term ; but if the answer must be less, make the less... | |
 | Shelton Palmer Sanford - Arithmetic - 1872 - 404 pages
...tlie same name with the answer the third term. II. If from the nature of the question the answer must be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining quantities tJte second term; but if the answer ought to be less than the third term, maJce the least... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1876 - 588 pages
...process is as follows: " Write that number which is like the answer sought as the third term ; then if the answer is to be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining numbers the second term and the smaller the first term," etc. . 14 Now, though this might do well enough... | |
 | Edward Olney - Arithmetic - 1879 - 392 pages
...which is of the same kind as the answer sought. II. If the nature of the problem requires the answer to be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining terms the second term ; otherwise make the less of those terms the second term : the term still remaining... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1880 - 584 pages
..."Write that number which is like the answer sought as the third term ; then if the answer is to bo greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining numbers the second term and the smaller the first term," etc. 14 I Now, though this might do well enough... | |
 | Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - Business mathematics - 1882 - 324 pages
...Multiplying 32 by 27, and dividing the product by 24, the fourth or missing term will be $36. 387. RULE. — For convenience, take for the third term...term ; when not, make the smaller the second term. Tlien multiply the means (the second and third) together, and divide their product by the given extreme... | |
 | Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - Business mathematics - 1882 - 224 pages
...number that may form a ratio with, or is of the same denomination as, the third term. If from the naiure of the example, the answer is to be greater than the...their product by the given extreme (the first term). NOTE. — After the example is stated, any factor of the given extreme may be cancelled with an equal... | |
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RULE. — For convenience, take for the third term, the number that may form a ratio with, or is of the same denomination as, the answer. If from the nature of the example, the answer is to be greater than the third term, make the greater of the two remaining... 
