| Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 330 pages
...Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the num her of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient if the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2.... | |
| Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1848 - 244 pages
...difference of the extremes 24, must be 8 times the common difference, which is therefore 3. RULE. \ Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less one, and the quotient will be the common difference. This difference repeatedly added to the less,... | |
| Nathan Daboll, David Austin Daboll - Arithmetic - 1849 - 260 pages
...n. • ' The first term, last term, and number of terms given, to f,nd the common difference. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. A man bought 17 yards of cloth in arithmetical progression. For the first yard he gave... | |
| James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1849 - 438 pages
...12 hours? 604. To find the common difference, when the extremes and the number of terms are given. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference required. OBS. The truth of this rule is manifest from Art. 602. 4. The extremes are 5 and 56, and... | |
| George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1849 - 344 pages
...first term, the last term, and the number of terms, to find the common difference, we have this RULE, Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less one. EXAMPLES. 1. The first term of an arithmetical progression is 5, the last term is 176, and the... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...will be the common difference. Thus, 27-:-9 = 3, the common difference. Hence the following RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less one, and the quotient is the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. The extremes of a series... | |
| Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1850 - 314 pages
...difference. Thus, 28 — 3= 25 ; then, 25 •*- 5= 5 years, the common difference. A. 5 years. 1 1 . Hence, to find the common difference, — Divide the difference...the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will oe the common difference. 12. If the extremes be 3 and 23, and the number of terms 11, what is the... | |
| Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...When the extremes and number of terms are given, to find the common difference, we have this RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 7. If the first term of a series be 3, the last term 276, and the number of terms 40, what is the common... | |
| George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1850 - 356 pages
...first term, the last term, and the number of terms, to find the common difference, we have this RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less one. EXAMPLES. 1 . The first term of an arithmetical progression is 5, the last term is 176, and the... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...differences, the quotient will be the common difference. Thus 16 -5- 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. 1. The extremes are 3 and 45, and the number of terms... | |
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