 | Almon Ticknor - Arithmetic - 1846 - 274 pages
...first term, the last term, and the number of terms being given, to find the common difference. RULE I. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference sought. 1. The extremes are 3 and 39, and the number of terms is 19 ; what is the common dfference... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1846 - 258 pages
...term, the last term, and the number of terms be ing given, to find the common difference. RULE. — (') Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference. liiieslinn. — 1. How do you find the common difference? EXAMPLES. 1. The extremes are 2 and 53, and... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1846 - 266 pages
...term, the last term, and the number of terms, to find the common difference, we have this • RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less one,. EXAMPLES. 1. The first term of an arithmetical progression's 5, the last term is 176, and the... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 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... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1847 - 308 pages
...difference. Thus, 28 — 3 =* 25 ; then, 25 -;- 5 = 5 years, the common difference. A. 5 years Hence, To Find the Common Difference ; — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number ot terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 2. If the extremes be 3 and Ч& and... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 330 pages
...Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the num her of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient if the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2.... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 342 pages
...RULE. Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the number of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient is the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. Z.... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 330 pages
...Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the num ber of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient is the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2.... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1848 - 244 pages
...difference of the extremes 24, must be 8 times the common difference, which is therefore 3. RULE. \ Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less one, and the quotient will be the common difference. This difference repeatedly added to the less,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1849 - 438 pages
...12 hours? 604. To find the common difference, when the extremes and the number of terms are given. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference required. OBS. The truth of this rule is manifest from Art. 602. 4. The extremes are 5 and 56, and... | |
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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, and the quotient will be the common difference. 
