A Manual for Teachers: Including Definitions, Principles, and Rules and Solutions of the More Difficult Problems

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D.C. Heath, 1895 - Mathematics - 352 pages
 

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Page ii - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter the value of the fraction.
Page 20 - I. Write the divisor at the left of the dividend, with a line between them.
Page xv - 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.
Page 173 - The stock is the money invested in the business of the corporation ; a share is one of the equal parts into which the stock is divided ; a...
Page xiii - THE UNITED STATES RULE. Find the amount of the principal to the time when the payment, or sum of the payments, equals or exceeds the interest. From this amount deduct the payment or sum of the payments.
Page iv - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
Page xvi - In any proportion the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes.
Page iii - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Page 126 - Multiply the sum of the parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page 21 - RULE. Divide the given number by any prime factor ; divide the quotient in the same manner, and so continue the division until the quotient is a prime number.

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