Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged, Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetic, Adapted to the United States |
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100 dollars 2qrs acres annuity annum answer Anthony Billings barter Bought bushels compound interest contain cube root cyphers decimal Deduct demand dimes divide the product dividend divisor dols equal EXAMPLES farthings federal money Find the value gain or loss gallon geometrical series given number given sum gross guineas hhds hundred improper fraction inches least common least common multiple left hand lowest terms measure merchant miles mills milreas mixed numbers months Multiply the given neat weight New-England currency New-Jersey NOTE number of shillings number of terms paid payment pence pound pound sterling present worth principal quotient rate per cent ratio ready money Reduce remainder Required the interest right hand rods Rule of Three sell separatrix simple interest sold solid feet Sqrs square root sterling subtract subtrahend sugar tare third Thomas Grosvenor trett VULGAR FRACTIONS whole numbers wine
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Page 178 - ... subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. " Place the double of the root, already found, on the lefl hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. " Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 186 - IS the method of finding what quantity of each of the ingredients whose rates are given, will compose a mixture of a given rate ; so that it is the reverse of Alligation Medial, and may be proved by it. CASE I. When the mean rate of the whole mixture, and the rates of all the ingredients are given, without any limited quau
Page 182 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 172 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total. If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due to the next payment, and then deduct the payment as above; and in like manner from one payment to another, till all the payments are absorbed; provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Page 34 - Division : 1. The Dividend, or number given to be divided. 2. The Divisor, or number given to divide by. 3. The Quotient, or answer to the question, which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend.
Page 40 - Add the first column or denomination together, as in whole numbers; then divide the sum by as many of the same denomination as make one of the next greater; setting down the remainder under the column added, and carry the quotient to the next superior denomination, continuing the same to the last, which add, as in simple addition.
Page 157 - Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Page 185 - Involve the root to the next inferior power to that which is given, and multiply it by the number denoting the given power for a divisor.
Page 222 - RULE. Multiply the length by the breadth, and that product by the depth, divide the last product by 2150,425 the solid inches in a statute bushel, and the quotient will be ti»e answer. EXAMPLE. There is a square...
Page 139 - RULE. First see what the gain or loss is by subtraction ; then As the price it cost : is to the gain or loss : : so is IOOl.