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3. What is the value of 29 pairs of men's shoes, at 1 dollar 51 cents per pair? Ans. $43,79 cents.

4.

What cost 131 yards of Irish linen, at 38 cents per yard ? Ans. $49, 78 cents.

5. What cost 140 reams of paper, at 2 dollars 35 cents per ream ? Ans. $329. 6. What cost 144 lb. of hyson tea, at 3 dollars 51 cents per lb. ? Ans. $505, 44 cents.

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7. What cost 94 bushels of oats, at 33 cents per bushAns. $31,2 cents. 8. What do 50 firkins of butter come to, at 7 dollars 14 cents per firkin ? Ans. $357. 9. What cost 12 cwt. of Malaga raisins, at 7 dollars 31 cents per cwt. ? Ans. $87,72 cents. 10. Bought 37 horses for shipping, at 52 dollars per head: what do they come to? Ans. $1924.

11. What is the amount of 500 lbs. of hog's-lard, at 15

cents per
lb. ?
Ans. $75.
12. What is the value of 75 yards of satin, at 3 dollars
75 cents per yard?
Ans. $281,25 cents.
13. What cost 367 acres of land, at 14 dols. 67 cents
per acre ?
Ans. $5383, 89 cents.
14. What does 857 bls. pork come to, at 18 dols. 93
cents per bl. ?
Ans. $16228, 1 cent.
15. What does 15 tuns of hay come to, at 20 dols. 78

cts. per ton ?
Ans. $311, 70
16. Find the amount of the following
BILL OF PARCELS.

Mr. James Paywell,

28 lb. of Green Tea,

cents.

New-London, March 9, 1814.
Bought of William Merchant

41 lb. of Coffee,
34 lb. of Loaf Sugar,
13 cwt. of Malaga Raisins,
35 firkins of Butter,
27 pairs of worsted Hose,
94 bushels of Oats,
29 pairs of men's Shoes,

Received payment in full,

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A SHORT RULE.

NOTE. The value of 100 lbs. of any article will be just as many dollars as the article is cents a pound.

For 100 lb. at 1 cent per lb.

100 cents=1 dollar.

100 lb. of beef at 4 cents a

lb. comes to 400 cents=4

dollars, &c.

DIVISION OF WHOLE NUMBERS.

SIMPLE

IMPLE DIVISION teaches to find how many times one whole number is contained in another; and also what remains; and is a concise way of performing several subtractions.

Four principal parts are to be noticed in Division : 1. The Dividend, or number given to be divided. 2. The Divisor, or number given to divide by.

3. The Quotient, or answer to the question, which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend.

4. The Remainder, which is always less than the divisor, and of the same name with the Dividend.

RULE.

First, seek how many times the divisor is contained in as many of the left hand figures of the dividend as are just necessary, (that is, find the greatest figure that the divisor can be multiplied by, so as to produce a product that shall not exceed the part of the dividend used) when found, place the figure in the quotient; multiply the divisor by this quotient figure; place the product under that part of the dividend used; then subtract it therefrom, and bring down the next figure of the dividend to the right hand of the remainder; after which, you must seek, multiply and subtract, till you have brought down every figure of the di

vidend.

PROOF. Multiply the divisor and quotient together and add the remainder if there be any to the product; if the work be right, the sum will be equal to the dividend.*

Another method which some make use of to prove division is as follows: viz. Add the remainder and all the products of the several quotient figures multiplied by the divisor together, according to the

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order in which they stand in the work; and this sum, when the work s right will be equal to the dividend.

A third method of proof by excess of nines is as follows, viz.

1. Cast the nines out of the divisor and place the excess on the left

hand.

2. Do the same with the quotient and place it on the right hand.

3. Multiply these two figures together, and add their product to the remainder, and reject the nines and place the excess at top.

4. Cast the nines out of the dividend and place the excess at bot

tom.

NOTE. If the sum is right, the top and bottom figures will be alike.

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95)85595(901 736)863256(1172

there remains 664

Ans. 2076 Ans. 912 Ans. 10110877.

10. Divide 1893312 by 2076. 11. Divide 47254149 by 4674. 12. What is the quotient of 330098048 divided by 4207?

Ans. 78464.

13. What is the quotient of 761858465 divided by 8465 ?

Ans. 90001.

14. How often does 761858465 contain 90001 ?

Ans. 8465.

15. How inany times 38473 can you have in 119184693?

Ans. 3097313.

16. Divide 280208122081 by 912314.

MORE EXAMPLES FOR EXERCISE.

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When there are cei phers at the right hand of the divisor; cut off the ciphers in the divisor, and the same number of figures from the right hand of the dividend, then divide the remaining ones as usual, and to the remainder (if any) annex those figures cut off from the dividend, and you will have the true remainder.

EXAMPLES.

1. Divide 4673625 by 21400. 214(00)46736)25(218,345 true quotient by Restitution. 428..

393

214

1796

1712

$425 true rem

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Short Division is when the Divisor does not exceed 12.

RULE.

Consider how many times the divisor is contained in the first figure or figures of the dividend, put the result under, and carry as many tens to the next figure as there are

ones over.

Divide every figure in the same manner till the whole is finished.

Divisor, Dividend.

EXAMPLES.

2)113415 3)85494 4)39407 5)94379

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Contractions in Division.

When the divisor is such a number, that any two figures in the Table, being multiplied together will produce it, divide the given dividend by one of those figures; the quotient thence arising by the other; and the last quotient will be the answer.

NOTE. The total remainder is found by multiplying the last remainder by the first divisor, and adding in the first

remainder.

D.

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