 | James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1857 - 376 pages
...2d assumed number by the 1st error ; then, if both assumed numbers are too great or both too small, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but, if one assumed number is too great and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by... | |
 | David Price - Arithmetic - 1858 - 264 pages
...second error by the first supposition. 4. — If the errors are alike, ie both plus, or both minus, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors. 5. — But if the errors are unlike, ie one plus and the other minus, divide the sum of the products... | |
 | John Daniel Runkle - Mathematics - 1860 - 590 pages
...first error. If the errors are alike, [that is, both results too great, or both results too small,] divide the difference of the 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, &c." The advantage... | |
 | 1860 - 462 pages
...first error. If the errors are alike, [that is, both results too great, or both results too small,] divide the difference of the 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, &c." The advantage... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1863 - 600 pages
...position by the second error, and the second position by the first error. If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference...the quotient will be the answer. But if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, for the answer. •What number... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1877 - 430 pages
...first position by the second error and the second position by the first error. If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; or, if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - Education - 1900 - 718 pages
...positions by their alternate errors, and if the errors are alike, that is, both excesses or both defects, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but if the errors are not alike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the... | |
 | Frank Hickenlooper - Monroe Co., Iowa - 1896 - 384 pages
...respective position, multiply them cross-wise, and if the errors were alike — that is, both greater or less than the given number — divide the difference...by the difference of the errors, and the quotient was the answer ; but if the errors were unlike, the sum of the products should be divided by the sum... | |
 | Frank Hickenlooper - Monroe Co., Iowa - 1896 - 380 pages
...respective position, multiply them cross-wise, and if the errors were alike — that is, both greater or less than the given number — divide the difference...by the difference of the errors, and the quotient was the answer ; but if the errors were unlike, the sum of the products should be divided by the sum... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 654 pages
...positions by their alternate errors, and if the errors are alike, that is, both excesses or both defects, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but if the errors are not alike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the... | |
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If the errors are unlike. divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 
