The Scholar's Arithmetic: Or, Federal Accountant ... the Whole in a Form and Method Altogether New, for the Ease of the Master and the Greater Progress of the Scholar |
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added addition amount answer Arithmetic Book bushels called carry cast cents cloth column common compound contained contents continued cube currency cyphers decimal demand denomination Direct divide dividend Division divisor dollars Dolls double equal EXAMPLES expressed farthings Federal Money feet figure four fourth fraction gain gallons give given given number greater half hundred inches interest kind left hand length less loss manner measure method miles mills months multiply nature OPERATION payment pence period persons pounds principal proceed PROOF proportion quantity question quotient received Reduce remainder right hand root RULE Rule of Three scholar share shew shillings side signifies simple sought square standing subtract SUPPLEMENT Suppose TABLE tens term thing third thousand units weight whole write yards cost
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Page 217 - RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator: then reduce the new fraction to its lowest terms.
Page 165 - Subtract the cube thus found, from the said period, and to the remainder bring down the next period, and call this the dividend.
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Page 165 - RULE. 1 . Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over the unit figure and every third figure bejond the place of units.
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