 | James L. Connolly (mathematician.) - Arithmetic - 1835 - 264 pages
...the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of their products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. The errors are alike, when they are both too great, or both too small ; and unlike, when one... | |
 | Luther Ainsworth - Arithmetic - 1837 - 298 pages
...divide the difference of these products, by the difference of the errors ; but if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products, by the sum of the errors, and in either case the quotient will be the answer, or number sought. Q. When are the errors said to be... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1837 - 266 pages
...difference of the errors. IV. If the errors are unlike — that is, one too large, and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. EXAMPLES. 1. A man being asked what his carriage cost, replied, If it had cost twice as much as it... | |
 | Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1838 - 346 pages
...products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient is the answer ; but if the errors be unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES.. more, he would stand him in $300 : what was the price of the horse ? Suppose he... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are said to be alike, when they are both too great, or both too small... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - Arithmetic - 1840 - 326 pages
...quotient will be the number sought. But if one of the errors be too large, and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. Note. — The errors are said to be too large or too small, when by operating on each supposed number... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1841 - 200 pages
...the difference of the errors, and the quotlHR^ will be the answer; but if the errors be unlike, (e) divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. Questions. — 1. What is Double Position? — 2. What is the 1st step in the rule? — 3.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike. divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are said to be alike, when they are both too great, or both too small;... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors; but, if unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. 1. Divide 15 into 2 such parts, so that when the greater is multiplied by 4, and the less by 16, their... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors; but, if unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. 1. Divide 15 into 2 such parts, so that when the greater is multiplied by 4, and the less by 16, their... | |
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If the errors are alike, divide the difference of tire products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 5. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 
