Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged. Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetick. Adapted to the United States |
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... rules too fast for his capacity . This objection I have endeavoured to obviate in the following treatise . In teaching the first rules , I have found it best to en- tourage the attention of scholars by a variety of easy and familiar ...
... rules too fast for his capacity . This objection I have endeavoured to obviate in the following treatise . In teaching the first rules , I have found it best to en- tourage the attention of scholars by a variety of easy and familiar ...
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... rules ; some of which are particularly designed for the use of the compting - house . The Appendix contains a variety of rules for casting Interest , Rebate , & c . together with a number of the most easy and useful problems , for ...
... rules ; some of which are particularly designed for the use of the compting - house . The Appendix contains a variety of rules for casting Interest , Rebate , & c . together with a number of the most easy and useful problems , for ...
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... Rule of Three Direct , do . Inverse , Double , Rules for reducing the different currencies of the several United States , also Canada and Nova Scotia , each to the par of all others , Application of the preceding , Short Practical , for ...
... Rule of Three Direct , do . Inverse , Double , Rules for reducing the different currencies of the several United States , also Canada and Nova Scotia , each to the par of all others , Application of the preceding , Short Practical , for ...
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... RULE . - 1 . Numerate from the right to the left hand , each figure + its proper place , by saying , units , tens , hundreds , & c . as in the Num ration Table . 2. To the simple value of each figure , join the name of its plac ...
... RULE . - 1 . Numerate from the right to the left hand , each figure + its proper place , by saying , units , tens , hundreds , & c . as in the Num ration Table . 2. To the simple value of each figure , join the name of its plac ...
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... RULE . Having placed units under units , tens under tens , & c , draw line underneath , and begin with the units ; after adding up every figure in that column , consider how many tens are contained in their tum ; set down the remainder ...
... RULE . Having placed units under units , tens under tens , & c , draw line underneath , and begin with the units ; after adding up every figure in that column , consider how many tens are contained in their tum ; set down the remainder ...
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acres amount annuity annum answer Anthony Billings Arithmetic Barrell Bought breadth bushels ciphers compound interest contain demand diameter dimes ditto Divide dividend divisor dols equal EXAMPLES federal money figures Find the value gain gallon gals given number given sum gross hundred improper fraction Joseph Hastings left hand lowest terms measure merchant miles millions mills milreas months multiplicand Multiply neat weight New-England currency New-York number of shillings number of terms paid payment pence piece pound pound sterling present worth principal quotient rate per cent ratio ready money Reduce remainder Required the interest right hand rods Rule of Three RULE.-Multiply the given separatrix sold solid feet square root sterling subtract sugar TABLE tare TARE AND TRET Thomas Grosvenor thousand tret TROY WEIGHT tuns VULGAR FRACTIONS whole numbers wine yards cost