 | Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1838 - 346 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.. more, he would stand him in $300 : what was the price of the horse ? Suppose he cost $90... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...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, and the quotient will be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are said to be alike, when they are both too great, or both too small ; and unlike,... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - Arithmetic - 1840 - 326 pages
...quotient will be the number sought. But if one of the errors be too large, and the other too small, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. Note. — The errors are said to be too large or too small, when by operating on each supposed number... | |
 | William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1841 - 268 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 the sum of the errours, and the quotient will be the answer. Or, instead of the preceding rule, it would perhaps be... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...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, and the quotient will be the answer. NOTE. — The errors are said to be alike, when they are both too great, or both too small; and unlike, when... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1841 - 200 pages
...the difference of the errors, and the quotlHR^ will be the answer; but if the errors be unlike, (e) divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. Questions. — 1. What is Double Position? — 2. What is the 1st step in the rule? — 3. What is... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...errors are alike, 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. 1. Divide 15 into 2 such parts, so that when the greater is multiplied by 4, and the less by 16, their... | |
 | John M'Nevin - Arithmetic - 1841 - 300 pages
...errors are alike, 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. 1. Divide 15 into 2 such parts, so that when the greater is multiplied by 4, and the less by 16, their... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 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... | |
 | Osman Call - Arithmetic - 1842 - 210 pages
...products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors be unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. Note. — The errors are said to be alike, when they are both too great, or both too little ; and unlike,... | |
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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. 
