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Page 78 - 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.
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Page 121 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike. divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 99 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 107 - 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.
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| Title | The Youth's Assistant in Theorhetic [sic] and Practical Arithmetic: Designed for the Use of Schools in the United States |
| Author | Zadock Thompson |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | E. Smith, 1832 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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