 | Michael Walsh - 1831 - 348 pages
...requires less, and leas requires more. RULE. After stating the terms as in the Rule of Three Direct, multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third, and the quotient is the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. If 100 workmen complete a piece of work in 12 days, how... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1831 - 198 pages
...RULE FOR INVERSE PROPORTION. Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the pro:luct by the third; the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the second, or that to which the «econd was reduced. EXAMPLE. If 4 men can build a wall in 4 days,... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1831 - 210 pages
...Answer. RULE F0R INVERSE PR0PORTI0N. Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the proact by the third; the quotient will be the answer in the same denojnation as the second, or that to which the second was reduced. EXAMPLE. If 4 men can build a wall... | |
 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1832 - 282 pages
...Indirect or Inverse Proportion. RULE. — State the questions, and reduce the terms, the same as in /he Rule of Three Direct; then multiply the first and...terms together, and divide the product by the third; and the quotient will be the ' answer, in a denomination of the same name, to which the second term... | |
 | Francis Walkingame - 1832 - 224 pages
...third Icrm is less than the first, and requires the fourth term to be greater than the second. RULE. Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third, the quotient will bear such proportion to the second as the first does to the third. EXAMPLES. 1. If 8 men do a piece... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Accounting - 1832 - 296 pages
...first, un-J requires the fourth term to be inore than the second. Rf LE. State and rethtce the terms as in the Rule of Three Direct ; then multiply the first and second terms together, and divide their product by the thirt term ; the quotient tcili be the answer, in the same denomination with the... | |
 | John Preston - Arithmetic - 1834 - 312 pages
...harvest a field of wheat in 2 days, iri what time can 8 men do the same work ? Answer 1 day. RULE. Multiply the first and second terms together and divide...the product by the third, the quotient will be the fourth term or answer. Operation. men. d. men. 4 : 2 : : 8 2 8)8(1 day, answer. In this example the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mathematics - 1834 - 484 pages
...fourth in the same.) For the Inverse Rule. State the question and reduce the terms in the direct rule : then multiply the first and second terms together and divide the product by the third, and the quotient will be the answer. Examples in the Direct Rule. 1. If 3 gallons of brandy cost 19*.,... | |
 | George Alfred - Arithmetic - 1834 - 336 pages
...of the stating (if necessary) precisely in the same manner as in the Single Rule of Three Direct. 2. Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third term — the quotient thence arising will be the enI »wer, and of like name with the middle term or... | |
 | Stephen Pike - Arithmetic - 1835 - 210 pages
...shillings, what will 6 yards cost ? ydi. s. ydi. 2 : 4 : : 6 4 2)24 12 Answer. RULE FOR INVER8E PROPORTION. Multiply the first and second terms together, and...Quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the second, or that to which the second was reduced. EXAMPLE. If 4 men can build a wall in 4 days,... | |
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Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third ; the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the middle term was reduced into. 
