 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1841 - 268 pages
...scholar knows the first term and common 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 the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1844 - 246 pages
...at the end of the 17th day, and what will be the length of the last day's journey 1 PROBLEM II. The extremes and number of terms being given, to find the common difference. The first term of an equidifferent series is 27, the last term 3, and the number of terms 9. What is... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 258 pages
...at the end of the 17th day, and what will be the length of the last day's journey 1 PROBLEM II. The extremes and number of terms being given, to find the common difference. The first term of an equidifferent series is 27, the last term 3, and the number of terms 9. What is... | |
 | James S. Russell - Arithmetic - 1847 - 340 pages
...the common difference 5 ? 386. PROBLEM II. To FIND THE COMMON DIFFERENCE AND SUM OF THE SERIES. The extremes and number of terms being given, TO FIND THE COMMON DIFFERENCE, and SUM OF THE SERIES ; divide the difference of the extremes by the number of the terms less one,... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1848 - 244 pages
...the end of the 17th day, and what will be the length of the last day's journey ? PROBLEM II. y The extremes and number of terms being given, to find the common difference. The first term of an equidifferent series is 27, the last term 3, and the number of terms 9. What is... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1857 - 376 pages
...5 = 4), will give one of those additions ; ie the coiumon difference. Hence, 346. PROB. 2. — The extremes and number of terms being given, to find the common difference, RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less one, and the quotient will be... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1872 - 350 pages
...difference taken as many times as there are terms, less 1. Hence the following rules : — RULE II. — The extremes and number of terms being given, to find, the common difference, divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1. RULE III. — The extremes and... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1874 - 444 pages
...less 1, and subtract the product from (or, in a descending series, add it to) the last term. III. The extremes and number of terms being given, to find the common difference, divide tlie difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1. IV. The extremes and common difference... | |
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...decreasing series of even numbers, commencing with 100 ; as 100, 98, 96, etc. ? PROBLEM II. 669. The extremes and number of terms being given, to find the common difference. EXAMPLE. The first term of a series is J, the last 5, and the number of terms, 20 : what is the common... | |
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