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acres added addition annexed answer bushels cents and mills cloth cost column Compound Division compound interest contained cube root currency cyphers Decimal Fractions diameter divide dividend divisor dollars Dolls DRY MEASURE equal EXAMPLES extraction Federal Money feet gain gallons given number given quantity given sum guineas hundred improper fraction inches integer interest left hand length measure method miles million mills per yard mixed number moidores Mont Vernon months multiplicand multiply N. E. cur New-England New-York Old Lawful OPERATION payment pence and farthings pounds proceed PROOF proportion question reckoned Reduce remainder right hand figure Rule of Three scholar Scholar's Arithmetic separatrix shew side signifies simple Single Rule square root subtract subtrahend SUPPLEMENT Suppose TABLE tens thousand triple quotient triple square TROY WEIGHT units Vulgar Fractions weight whole numbers yards cost yards of cloth
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Page 50 - 2. Find their sum as in whole numbers, and point off so many places •' for decimals as are equal to the greatest number of decimal places in any " of the given numbers." " 1. PLACE the numbers whether mixed or pure decimals, under each other according to the value of their places.'
Page 201 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixed numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. EXAMPLES. 1. Multiply 4£ by
Page 195 - and if any to his knowledge be intended, he shall give his master seasonable notice thereof. He shall not waste the goods of his said master nor lend them unlawfully to any ; at cards, dice, or any unlawful game he shall not play ; fornication he shall : not commit, nor matrimony contract during the said term ; taverns, ale
Page 54 - decimal values. RULE. ( > I. Write the given numbers perpendicularly under each other for ' dividends, proceeding orderly from the least to the greatest. '< II. Opposite to each dividend on the left hand, place such a number ; for a divisor as will bring it to the next superior denomination and draw ; a line perpendicularly between them.
Page 147 - triple quotient, and the sum of these call the divisor. 5. " Seek how often the divisor may be had in the dividend, and place the result in the quotient. 6. " Multiply the' triple square by the last quotient figure, and write the product under the dividend ; multiply the square of the last quotient
Page 52 - places of the quotient be not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing cyphers to the left hand. •• 3. If at any time there be a remainder, or the decimal places in the divisor be more than those in the dividend, cyphers may be annexed to the
Page 139 - down your last divisor for a new one, doubling the right hand figure of it) and from these find the next figure in the root, as last directed, and continue the operation in the same manner till you have brought down all the periods.
Page 177 - ALLIGATION MEDIAL. Alligation Medial is when the quantities and prices of several things are given to find the mean price of the mixture compounded of those things. RULE. As the sum of the quantities or whole composition is to their total value, so
Page 199 - poles. X. To reduce any given quantity to the fraction of a, greater denomination of the same kind. RULE. Reduce the given quantity to the lowest denomination, mentioned for a numerator ; then reduce the integral part to the same denomination
Page 197 - V. To reduce a compound fraction to a single one. RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators l'or a new denominator,