 | Nathan Daboll - 1839 - 220 pages
...several debts, due at different times. 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 answer. • . . EXAMPLES. 1. A owes B $380, to be paid $100 in 6 months,... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - Arithmetic - 1840 - 316 pages
...We therefore have the following rule : RULE. — Multiply each payment by the time which must elapse before it becomes due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments. 2. A. owes me $50, payable in 4 months ; $100, payable in 10 months ; and $150, payable in 16 months.... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1840 - 278 pages
...find the mean lime for several payments, — RULE • — Multiply each sum by its time of payment, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the answer. Note. This rule is founded on the supposition, that what is gained... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Foster - 1840 - 148 pages
...business use the following general RULE, Muliiply the amount of each debt by the time it has to run till it becomes due, and divide the sum of the products by the amount of the debt > the quotient is the average or equated time of payment. Thus the equated time... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...seventy-five months, 75-rl5=5 months, the answer. Hence the . RULE. Multiply each payment by the time when it becomes due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the time required. 2. A merchant has owing him $420, to be paid as follows... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...1. RBCIPBOCATK, [L. rectpricui.] To exchange ; to interchange; to give anil return mutually. several products by the sum of the payments; the quotient will be the mean or equitable time for the payment of the whole. * 11. A owes B $200 to be paid in 6 months, $300 in... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 316 pages
...6-j-days, Ans. Hence, To find the mean time of several payments, Multiply each sum by its time of payment, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 4. A western merchant owes in New York city $200, due in 5 months; $325'50,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...the propriety of the following 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. 2. A owes B $300, of which $50 is to be paid in 2... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1842 - 320 pages
...1. RECIPROCATE, [L. rectnricuj.] To exchange ; to interchange: to give and return mutually. several products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the mean or equitable time for the payment of the whole.* 11. A owes B $200 to be paid in 6 months, $300 in... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1842 - 184 pages
...days, as before. Hence the following 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. 2. John Smith owes a merchant, in Boston, $ 1000,... | |
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Multiply each payment by the time before it becomes due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments : the quotient will be the mean time. 
