 | William Kinne - Accounting - 1831 - 248 pages
...II. The extremes and the number of terms being given, to find the common difference. RULE.—Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. The extremes are 3 and 19, and the number... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Arithmetic - 1832 - 544 pages
...5. The sum of all the terms. PROBLEM I. The first term, the last term, and the number of terms being given, to find the common difference. RULE* Divide...difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference sought. EXAMPLES. 1st. The extremes are 3 and 39, and... | |
 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1832 - 282 pages
...difference of the hammer of a clock's striking. CASE III. — The extremes and number of terms being .given, to find the common difference. RULE — Divide...difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. A merchant sold 200 yards of cloth ; for... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...the common difference. Hence, II. The first term, the last term, and the number of term* given to fmd the common difference. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 2. If the first term of a series be 8, the last 108,... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 182 pages
...common difference. Hence, II. The first term, the last term, and the number of terms given to find ike common difference. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number «f terms, less 1, and the quotient will he the common difference. 2. If the first term of a series... | |
 | Francis Walkingame - 1833 - 204 pages
...egg to put it into the basket ? Ans. 5 miles, 1 300 yards. Case 2. The same three terms giren, tojind the common difference. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1 ; and the quotient will be the answer. (4) A man had eight sons, whose ages were in arithmetical progression... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1833 - 268 pages
...difference. ' Hence, when the extremes and number of terms are given, • to find the common difference, — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 6. If the extremes be 5 and 605, and the number of... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Arithmetic - 1833 - 296 pages
...difference. Hence, when the extremes and number of terms are given, to find the common difference, Divide the difference of the extremes, by the number of terms less 1. 2. Extremes 3 and 19 ; number of terms 9. Required the common difference. A. 2. 3. Extremes 4 and 56... | |
 | George Alfred - Arithmetic - 1834 - 336 pages
...the two extremes and the number of terms are given, to find the common difference of all the terms. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference of all the terms. / , m . EXAMPLES. ' .:•• " ' :... | |
 | James L. Connolly (mathematician.) - Arithmetic - 1835 - 264 pages
...whole come to ? Ans. 72 dollars 20 cents, * The first term, the last term, and the number of terms, given to find the common difference. RULE. Divide...difference of the extremes by the number of terms less one, and the quotient will be the common difference, or fourth term. Or, from the second term subtract... | |
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Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 6. If the extremes be 5 and 605, and the number of terms 151, what is the common difference? 
