 | Michael Walsh - 1831 - 348 pages
...products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient is the answer ; but if the errors be unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. B. asked C. how much his horse cost ; C. answered, that if he cost him three times as... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1831 - 246 pages
...by the difference of the errors, and the quotient wii, be the answer. 5. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the nnswer. NOTE. — The errors are said to be alike when they are both too great, or both too small ;... | |
 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1832 - 282 pages
...products by the difference of the erroun>, and the quotient will be the answer. — 5. If the errours be unlike, that is, one too small, and the other too...great, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errours, and the quotient will be the answer. Or, instead of the preceding rule, it would perhaps be... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 182 pages
...too small), divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but if unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. NOTE. — This rale is founded on the supposition that the first error is to the second, as the difference... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...too small), divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but if unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. NOTE. — This rule is founded on the supposition that the 6nt error is t« the second, as the difference... | |
 | Samuel Read Hall - Arithmetic - 1832 - 294 pages
...difference of the products by the difference of the errors. But if one is too large and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.* Example. What is that number which, on being increased by its half, fourth, and 5 more, will be doubled... | |
 | James L. Connolly (mathematician.) - Arithmetic - 1835 - 264 pages
...the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of their products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. The errors are alike, when they are both too great, or both too small ; and unlike, when one is too... | |
 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1836 - 274 pages
...products by the difference of the errours, and the quotient will be the answer. — 5. If the errours be unlike, that is, one too small, and , the other too great, divide the sum of the products by th^sum of the errours, and the quotient will be the answer. Or, instead of the preceding rule, it would... | |
 | Luther Ainsworth - Arithmetic - 1837 - 298 pages
...divide the difference of these products, by the difference of the errors ; but if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products, by the sum of the errors, and in either case the quotient will be the answer, or number sought. Q. When are the errors said to be... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1837 - 266 pages
...difference of the errors. IV. If the errors are unlike — that is, one too large, and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. EXAMPLES. 1. A man being asked what his carriage cost, replied, If it had cost twice as much as it... | |
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If the errors are alike, divide the difference of tire products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 5. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 
