 | Francis Walkingame - 1833 - 204 pages
...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 ; the youngest being... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 300 pages
...find the common difference. RULE. Subtract the less extreme from the greater, and divide the remainder by the number of terms less 1 , and the quotient will be the common difference. It has been shown under Theorem 3d. that the difference of the extremes is found by multiplying the... | |
 | John Rose - Arithmetic - 1835 - 192 pages
...When descending ? When the extremes and number of terms are gitffen, to find the common difference. Divide the difference of the extremes, by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 1. If the extremes be 5 and 605, and the number of terms 151 ; what is the common difference 1 Ans.... | |
 | Charles Potts - Arithmetic - 1835 - 202 pages
...yards. CASE 2. When the two extremes, and number of terms are given to find the common difference. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1 ; the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. The extremes are 3 and 19, and the number... | |
 | Stephen Pike - Arithmetic - 1835 - 210 pages
...extremes and number of terms are given, to find the common difference. ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION. 173 RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms. less one; the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. Twenty and sixty are the two extremes... | |
 | James L. Connolly (mathematician.) - Arithmetic - 1835 - 264 pages
...cents, * The first term, the last term, and the number of terms, 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 the common difference, or fourth term. Or, from the second term subtract... | |
 | George Willson - Arithmetic - 1836 - 202 pages
...III. — The first term, ths last term, and the number of terms given, to find the common difference. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by..., and the quotient will be the common difference. 6. In a school there are 8 scholars, -whose ages differ alike; the youngest is 4 years old, and the... | |
 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1836 - 274 pages
...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 bejbe common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. A merchant sold 200 yards -of cloth; for the first yard he received... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1836 - 308 pages
...ft. 5 years. Hence, Toßnd the Common Difference ; — Divide the difference of the extremes by thn number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common шйегепсе. 2. If the extremos be 3 and 33, and the number of terms 11, wi*» i» the onm mon... | |
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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. 
