 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...common difference, and the number of terms, are given to find the last term, we have the following rule. RULE. Multiply the common difference by the number of terms less one, add the first term to the product, the sum will be the required term. 1. The first term of an arithmetical... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 322 pages
...the last term of an ascending series when the first term, common difference, and number of terms are given, RULE. Multiply the common difference by the...which, if three are given, the others may be found ? What is the common differeaot 1 NOTE 2. —If the same things are given of a descending series, we... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 330 pages
...the last term of an ascending series when the first term, common difference, and number of terms are given, RULE. Multiply the common difference by the...-* : Questions. — IT 215. How is Ex. 1 explained? — EJ. 2? What are the extremes 7 — the means ? — the terms ? How many, and what things are there,... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 320 pages
...the last term of an ascending series token the first term, common difference, and number of terms are given, RULE. Multiply the common difference by the...the first term ; the amount will be the last term. NOTE 2. — If the same things arc given of a descending seres, we must evidently lake the sum of the... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 330 pages
...the last term of an ascending series when the first term, common difference, and number of terms are given, RULE. Multiply the common difference by the...the first term ; the amount will be the last term. Question«. — IT 215. How is Ex. 1 explained? — Ex. 31 What are the extremes 7 — the means ?... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 324 pages
...the last terra of an ascending series when the first term, common difference, and number of terms are given, RULE. Multiply the common difference by the...additions, and add this sum to the first term; the anmunt will be the last term. NOTE 2. — If the same things are given of a descending series, we must... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1850 - 256 pages
...instance, the rule to find the last term of any arithmetical series, is equation (A) put in words, thus : RULE. — Multiply the common difference by the number of terms less one, and to the product add the first term. A rule for finding the sum of any series, we draw from equation... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1859 - 352 pages
...term as there are terms less one. NoTE. The analysis for a descending series would be similar. Hence, RULE. Multiply the common difference by the number of terms less one, and add the product to the first term, if the series be ascending, and subtract it if the series be... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1861 - 452 pages
...an ascending series, when the first term, common difference, and number of terms are given,— HU&E. Multiply the common difference by the number of terms...the first term ; the amount will be the last term. If the same things are given of a descending series, we must evidently take the sum of the subtractions... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic (Commercial), 1861 - 1861 - 348 pages
...required. (1). The first term, common difference, and number of terms being given to find the last term. RULE. — Multiply the common difference by the number of terms, less one, and add the product to the first term, if the series be ASCENDINJJ, but subtract it from it, if the... | |
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... the price of the last yard, or the last term. It is added 1 time less than the number of terms, since 4 is the price of the first yard without any addition. Hence, To find the last term of an ascending series when the first term, common difference,... 
