 | Thomas Whiting - Arithmetic - 1787 - 276 pages
...Blank fall under the firfl or fécond Place, multiply the third and fourth together for a Divifor, and the other three for a Dividend, and the Quotient will be the Anfwer. . Proof. By varying their order, or by two Operations in the Single Rule of Three. EXAMPLE.... | |
 | Paul Deighan - Arithmetic - 1804 - 504 pages
...fifth of the lame T 2 name name with the fecond. Then multiply the firft and fecond for a divifor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the 6th or anfwer fought, when direft. £. m. £. £. m. The foregoing queftion 240 — 16 — §4 —... | |
 | Charles Vyse - Arithmetic - 1815 - 340 pages
...a dividend : the quotient arising from them will be the answer, or sixth term. 5. If the blank fall under the first or second term, multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend : the quotient arising from them will be... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1817 - 252 pages
...first or second term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. If 7 men can build 86 rods of wall in 3 days ; how many rods can 20 men build in 14 days... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1818 - 264 pages
...first, or second term, the proportion is Inverse; then multiply the third and fourth term toijetWer for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend ; and the quotient will be the answer. 4. Reduce the similar terms to the same denomination, if necessary. 5. Multiply the terms in the second... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1818 - 246 pages
...term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, afid the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answdr. EXAMPLES. 1. If 7 men can build 36 rods of wall iu 3 days; how many rods can 20 men build in... | |
 | Beriah Stevens - Arithmetic - 1822 - 436 pages
...name, and the third and fifth of the same, also. ' Then multiply the third and fourth numbers together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend and the quotient will be the answer, in the same name with the first number. EXAMPLES. 1. If £100, in 12 months, gain £6, what principal... | |
 | Jacob Willetts - Arithmetic - 1822 - 200 pages
...other three for a dividend. 6. If the blank fall under the first or second term, multiply the third md fourth terms for a divisor, and the other three, for a dividend. EXAMPLES. 1. If 6 raeo in 6 days eat lOlb. of bread how much will 12 mee *tm *4 days ? men days lb.... | |
 | James L. Connolly (mathematician.) - Arithmetic - 1829 - 266 pages
...first or second ' term, the proportion is inverse. Then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. Tf 7 men can make 36 rods of the turnpike road in 3 days, how many rods can 18 men make... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Arithmetic - 1830 - 306 pages
...the answer. 6. But if this blank place fall under the 1st or 2d term, then multiply the 3d and 4th terms for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. 13. If two men can do 12 rods of ditching in 6 days, what will 8 men do in 24 days ? 123' 2:6: 12 ::... | |
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... but if the blank fall under the first or second term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 
