The National Arithmetic on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods Together with the Cancelling System : Forming a Complete Mercantile Arithmetic |
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acres amount annex answer Arithmetic Avoirdupois barrels of flour bill Boston Bought broadcloth bushels cents ciphers circle circumference common denominator common difference compound interest contain cords of wood cost cube root decimal diameter Divide dividend divisor dominical letter duodecillions equal EXAMPLES farthings feet long feet wide figure foot furlong gain gallons given number greatest common measure hogshead hundred improper fraction indorsements least common multiple length lowest terms miles minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply NOTE number of terms OPERATION ounces paid payment pence perform pound sterling pounds present worth quantity question quotient ratio received Reduce remainder repetend rods SECTION shillings side simple fraction sold square root sterling subtract subtrahend sugar third thousand thousandths tons TROY WEIGHT United States money usury vulgar fraction weight whole number wine write yards of cloth
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Page 94 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of...
Page 257 - Thus 16 -f-8 = 2 is the common difference. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of ' terms less one, and the quotient is the common difference.
Page 95 - Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 224 - Is when the several shares of stock are continued in trade an equal term of time. RULE. As the whole stock is to the whole gain or loss : so is each man's particular stock, to his particular share of the gain or loss.
Page 323 - It follows that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is the same for all circles.
Page 317 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 126 - RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and divide the product by the numerator.
Page 235 - Multiply each term in the multiplicand, beginning at the lowest by the feet of the multiplier, and write each result under its respective term, observing to carry a unit for every 12 from each denomination to its next superior.
Page 252 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 178 - But if any payments be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add- it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid up to the end of the year; add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest, added as above.* " "If any payments be made of a less sum than the interest arisen at the time of such payment, no interest is to be computed, but only...