 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.  The parallel arithmetic - Page 106by W H. Wingate - 1865Full view - About this book
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