A New System of Arithmetic, on the Cancelling Plan: Embracing the Rules of Three, Single and Double, Direct and Inverse; Barter; Loss and Gain; Reduction, Multiplication and Division of Fractions; Exchange of Currencies; Interest; and All Proportional Questions in One Rule Applicable to the Whole. The Process Greatly Simplified and Abridged |
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... column of units . The amount of the second co- lumn , or column of tens , we find to be 9 tens , or 90. The answer , then , is 9 tens and 8 units , or 98 . Ans . 198 3. What will a carriage , horse and harness cost , if the carriage ...
... column of units . The amount of the second co- lumn , or column of tens , we find to be 9 tens , or 90. The answer , then , is 9 tens and 8 units , or 98 . Ans . 198 3. What will a carriage , horse and harness cost , if the carriage ...
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... column , it will be seen that the numbers in the unit column , when added , amount to more than 10 , and in the column of tens the amount is more than 10 — that is , ten tens . Illustration . 78 96 14 16 Placing the numbers as before ...
... column , it will be seen that the numbers in the unit column , when added , amount to more than 10 , and in the column of tens the amount is more than 10 — that is , ten tens . Illustration . 78 96 14 16 Placing the numbers as before ...
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... columns to be added method will be found convenient . QUESTION . When the columns to be added are long , how may you proceed ? unit figure as usual ; and for every ten , 22 EXERCISES IN ADDITION .
... columns to be added method will be found convenient . QUESTION . When the columns to be added are long , how may you proceed ? unit figure as usual ; and for every ten , 22 EXERCISES IN ADDITION .
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... column . Write the excess of ten at the foot of the column added , then count the dots , and as many as they are , so many carry to the next left hand column . 3 4.9.5 . 6.7 8.9 . 23.16 6.125 . 27687 3978 78989 2129 77896 9123 98987 ...
... column . Write the excess of ten at the foot of the column added , then count the dots , and as many as they are , so many carry to the next left hand column . 3 4.9.5 . 6.7 8.9 . 23.16 6.125 . 27687 3978 78989 2129 77896 9123 98987 ...
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... the 1 , which you carry , equal to the 10 , which ydu borrowed ? Answer . Because 1 , in the left hand column , is equal to 10 in the right . C 10. Dartmouth College was incorporated in the year 1769 , EXERCISES IN SUBTRACTION . 25.
... the 1 , which you carry , equal to the 10 , which ydu borrowed ? Answer . Because 1 , in the left hand column , is equal to 10 in the right . C 10. Dartmouth College was incorporated in the year 1769 , EXERCISES IN SUBTRACTION . 25.
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Page 60 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 180 - RULE.* — Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required.
Page 36 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 191 - 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 53 - TABLE. 10 Mills =1 Cent. 10 Cents =1 Dime. 10 Dimes =1 Dollar. 10 Dollars =1 Eagle.
Page 255 - America, to be paid to the said or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns: to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Page 203 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 105 - Divide by any number that will divide two or more of the given numbers without a remainder, and set the quotients, together with the undivided numbers, in a line beneath.
Page 194 - The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides ; as, 5033 402+302.
Page 217 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be th.e answer. But if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, for the answer.