 | Nathan Daboll - 1839 - 220 pages
...is the method of finding the mean time to pay at once several debts, due at different times. RULE. Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due,...sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the answer. • . . EXAMPLES. 1. A owes B $380, to be paid $100 in 6 months, $120 in 7 months, and $160... | |
 | Jason M. Mahan - Arithmetic - 1839 - 312 pages
...quotient will be the true equated time. RULE 2. Multiply each several payment by the time it has to run : then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the equated time, nearly. Examples. IA owes B. S1800, whereof S200 is to. be... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1840 - 278 pages
...the mean lime for several payments, — RULE • — Multiply each sum by its time of payment, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the answer. Note. This rule is founded on the supposition, that what is gained by keeping a debt a certain... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - Arithmetic - 1840 - 326 pages
...following rule : RULE. — Multiply each payment by the time which must elapst before it becomes due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments. 2. A. owes me $50, payable in 4 months ; $100, payable in 10 months ; and $150, payable in 16 months.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...$19 for j'5 of 152 months, which is 8 months, as before. Hence the propriety of the following RULE. * Multiply each payment by the time, at which it is...sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required. 2. A owes B $300, of which $50 is to be paid in 2 months, §100 in 5 months, and... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...75-rl5=5 months, the answer. Hence the . RULE. Multiply each payment by the time when it becomes due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the time required. 2. A merchant has owing him $420, to be paid as follows : $100 in 8 months, $100 in 2 months, and 5... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 316 pages
...Ans. Hence, To find the mean time of several payments, Multiply each sum by its time of payment, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 4. A western merchant owes in New York city $200, due in 5 months; $325'50,... | |
 | John Husband (math. master, Berwick.) - 1841 - 126 pages
...made for the whole ? Ans. 7 months. EQUATION OF RATES. RULE.— Multiply each quantity by its rate, then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the quantities, and the quotient will be the rate of the compound. EXERCISES. 1. What is the average rate... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1842 - 184 pages
...as $ 100 for ffa of 640 months, which is 8 months and 12 days, as before. Hence the following RULE. Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due,...sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required. 2. John Smith owes a merchant, in Boston, $ 1000, $250 of which is to be paid in... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1843 - 254 pages
...is the method of finding the mean time to pay at once several debts, due at different times. RULE. Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due,...sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. A owes B $380, to be paid $100 in 6 months, $120 in 7 months, and $160 in 10 months... | |
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RULE.* — Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required. 
