The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, Together with the Cancelling System; Forming a Complete Mercantile Arithmetic |
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... interest to the higher departments of arith- metical science , it is deemed desirable to place them within reach of the student . In closing these prefatory remarks , the author would earnest- ly recommend that the pupil be required to ...
... interest to the higher departments of arith- metical science , it is deemed desirable to place them within reach of the student . In closing these prefatory remarks , the author would earnest- ly recommend that the pupil be required to ...
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... 158-159 159 159-161 37. Simple Interest 36. Questions to be performed by Analysis 162-164 164-172 137-138 138-139 139-141 141-142 142-145 145-147 149-152 152-153 153-156 156-157 56. Partnership on Time 57. General Average 58. Profit and.
... 158-159 159 159-161 37. Simple Interest 36. Questions to be performed by Analysis 162-164 164-172 137-138 138-139 139-141 141-142 142-145 145-147 149-152 152-153 153-156 156-157 56. Partnership on Time 57. General Average 58. Profit and.
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... Interest 40. Compound Interest . 41. Discount 42. Per Centage 43. Commission and Brokerage 44. Stocks · 45. Insurance and Policies 16. Banking 7. Barter 48. Practice . 49. Equation of Payments 50. Custom - House Business 51. Ratio · 52 ...
... Interest 40. Compound Interest . 41. Discount 42. Per Centage 43. Commission and Brokerage 44. Stocks · 45. Insurance and Policies 16. Banking 7. Barter 48. Practice . 49. Equation of Payments 50. Custom - House Business 51. Ratio · 52 ...
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... interest to the advanced and curious scholar , but the brevity of this sketch allows us barely to touch upon it here . Among the ancient nations which possessed the art of writing , it was a natu- ral and common device to employ letters ...
... interest to the advanced and curious scholar , but the brevity of this sketch allows us barely to touch upon it here . Among the ancient nations which possessed the art of writing , it was a natu- ral and common device to employ letters ...
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... interest in the United States , and the penalty of usury . STATES . Maine , Vermont , RATE OF INTEREST . 6 pr . ct . Forfeit of the debt or claim . N. Hampshire , 6 6 Massachusetts , 6 66 Rhode Island , 6 66 PENALTY OF USURY . Forfeit ...
... interest in the United States , and the penalty of usury . STATES . Maine , Vermont , RATE OF INTEREST . 6 pr . ct . Forfeit of the debt or claim . N. Hampshire , 6 6 Massachusetts , 6 66 Rhode Island , 6 66 PENALTY OF USURY . Forfeit ...
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Page 94 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of...
Page 245 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 240 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 178 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total. If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due to the next payment, and then deduct the payment as above; and in like manner from one payment to another, til! all the payments are absorbed ; provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Page 178 - But if any payments be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the...
Page 126 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 250 - Raise the ratio to a power whose index is equal to the number of terms, from which subtract 1 ; divide the remainder by the ratio, less 1, and the quotient, multiplied by the first term, will be the answer.
Page 297 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 286 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 35 - Cut off the ciphers from the divisor, and the same number of figures from the right of the dividend. Then divide the remaining figures of the dividend by the remaining figures of the divisor.