Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged: Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetic, Adapted to the United States |
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... paid me 95 dols . 43 cts . B paid me just three times as much as A , and C paid me just as much as A and B both : can you tell me how much money C paid me ? Ans . $ 381 , 72 cents . 13. There is an excellent well built ship just returne ...
... paid me 95 dols . 43 cts . B paid me just three times as much as A , and C paid me just as much as A and B both : can you tell me how much money C paid me ? Ans . $ 381 , 72 cents . 13. There is an excellent well built ship just returne ...
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... paid for truckage , forty - five shillings , for freight , seventy - nine shillings and six pence , for duties , thirty - five shillings and ten pence , and my expenses were fifty - three shillings and nine pence ; what did the goods ...
... paid for truckage , forty - five shillings , for freight , seventy - nine shillings and six pence , for duties , thirty - five shillings and ten pence , and my expenses were fifty - three shillings and nine pence ; what did the goods ...
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... Paid 36 11 8 Received 18 10 7 3 Remains unpaid 1 Due to me ( 6 ) £ . s . d . From 5 0 0 Take 4 19 11 ( 7 ) £ . s . d . qr . 7 11 1 2 4 17 3 1 ( 8 ) £ . s d . qr 476 10 9 1 277 17 7 1 Rem . ( 9 ) £ . s . From 141 14 d . qr 92 ( 10 ) ...
... Paid 36 11 8 Received 18 10 7 3 Remains unpaid 1 Due to me ( 6 ) £ . s . d . From 5 0 0 Take 4 19 11 ( 7 ) £ . s . d . qr . 7 11 1 2 4 17 3 1 ( 8 ) £ . s d . qr 476 10 9 1 277 17 7 1 Rem . ( 9 ) £ . s . From 141 14 d . qr 92 ( 10 ) ...
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... paid me 377. 11s . 4d . the second 257 168 7d . the third 197. 14s . 6d . and the fourth as much as all the other three , lacking 19s . 6d . I demand the whole sum received ? Ans . £ 165 5s . 4d . lb. oz . put . 2. TROY WEIGHT . oz ...
... paid me 377. 11s . 4d . the second 257 168 7d . the third 197. 14s . 6d . and the fourth as much as all the other three , lacking 19s . 6d . I demand the whole sum received ? Ans . £ 165 5s . 4d . lb. oz . put . 2. TROY WEIGHT . oz ...
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... paid again at ore time 17. 11s . 6d . and at another time , 97. 4s . 8d . at another time 177. 9s . Gd and at another time 19s . 6d . how much remains un- paid ? Ans . £ 15 48 9zd . 4. Borrowed 1007. and paid in part as follows , viz ...
... paid again at ore time 17. 11s . 6d . and at another time , 97. 4s . 8d . at another time 177. 9s . Gd and at another time 19s . 6d . how much remains un- paid ? Ans . £ 15 48 9zd . 4. Borrowed 1007. and paid in part as follows , viz ...
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100 dollars 2qrs 3grs 3qrs acres annuity annum answer Anthony Billings Arithmetic Bought bushels compound interest containing cyphers decimal Deduct dimes divide the product dividend divisor dols equal EXAMPLES farthings federal money figure Find the value gain or loss gallon geometrical series given number given sum gross hundred improper fraction inches least common multiple left hand lowest terms measure merchants miles millions mills milreas mixed numbers months multiplicand Multiply the given neat weight New-England currency New-Jersey New-York NOTE number of terms paid payment pence pound pound sterling present worth principal quotient rate per cent ratio ready money Reduce remainder Required the interest right hand rods Rule of Three separatrix shillings sold square root sterling subtract subtrahend sugar tare third Thomas Grosvenor thousand trett TROY WEIGHT units VULGAR FRACTIONS whole numbers wine
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Page 184 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Page 237 - In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day of in the year of our Lord Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator, BA as and for his last will and testament...
Page 196 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1 is the number of terms.
Page 40 - RULE.* 1. Place the numbers so that those of the same denomination may stand directly under each other. 2. Add the first column or denomination together, as in whole numbers; then divide the sum by as many of the same denomination as make one of the next greater...
Page 180 - Find the greatest square number in the first or left hand period, place the root of it at the right hand of the given number, (after the manner of a quotient in division,) for the first figure of the root, and the square number under the period, and subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend.
Page 150 - ... it may be proved by as many statings in the Single Rule of Three as the nature of the question may require.
Page 45 - Place those numbers under each other, which are of the same denomination, the less being below the greater ; begin with the least denomination, and if it exceed the figure over it, borrow as many units as make one of the next greater ; subtract it therefrom ; and to the difference add the upper figure, remembering always, to add one to the next superior denomination, for that which you borrowed.* PKOOF.
Page 25 - Subtract the subtrahend from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend, with which proceed as before ; and so on, till the whole is finished.
Page 232 - July next, foreign gold and silver coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands...