 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1844 - 298 pages
...(134-2) =78 4«t. When the Common Difference and the Extremes are gieen, to find the Number of Terms. RULE.— Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and add one to the quotient. EXAMPLE. — A man travelled 3 miles the first day, 5 the second, 7 the third,... | |
 | William Vogdes - Arithmetic - 1847 - 324 pages
...CASE 3. Given the first term, the last term, and the common difference, to find the number of terms. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1 is the number of terms required. EXAMPLES. 1. The extremes are 2 and 53,... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1848 - 244 pages
...5, gives 7, which must be equal to the number of terms less 1. Therefore the number of terms is 8. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and add 1 to the quotient. 13. What is the sum of the series 2, 4, 6, 8, &c., to 1000? 14. What is the... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1849 - 344 pages
...have given the first term, the last term, and the common difference, to find the number of terms, we have this RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes...of an arithmetical progression is 5, the last term 176, and the common difference is 3. What is the number of terms ? In this example, the difference... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Mechanical engineering - 1849 - 286 pages
...29-3=26 ; and 26-M3=2. Ans. Gicen the Common Difference and the Extremes, to find the Number of Terms. Rule. — Divide the difference of the extremes by...the common difference, and to the quotient add one. Example. — The first term of an arithmetical progression is 11, the last term 88, and the common... | |
 | Nathan Daboll, David Austin Daboll - Arithmetic - 1849 - 260 pages
...140.) CASE IV. The first term, last term and common difference given, to Jind the number of terms. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1, will be the number of terms. EXAMPLES. 1 . A man bought cloth in arithmetical... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...of differences ; therefore, 9 -j- 1 = 10, is the number of terms in this series. Hence the following RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient, increased by 1, will be the number of terms required. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. If the... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1850 - 356 pages
...have given the first term, the last term, and the common difference, to find the number of terms, we have this RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes...of an arithmetical progression is 5, the last term 176, and the common difference is 3. What is the number of terms ? In this example, the difference... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...When the first and last terms, and the common difference are given, to find the number of terms — RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient will be 1 less than the number of terms. 10. If the first term of a series be 2, and the... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...the sum of the extremes, and the product divided by 2, the quotient would be the sum of the series. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and add 1 to the quotient; multiply this quotient by the sum of the extremes, and half the product is the... | |
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Given the first term, last term, and common difference, to find the number of terms. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1 is the number of terms. 
