Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged, Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetick, Adapted to the United States |
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... common Arithmetic , and think it the best cal- culated for that purpose of any which has fallen within my observation . JOHN ADAMS , Rector of Plainfield Academy . Now Principal of Philips ' Academy , Andover , Mass . ) Billerica ...
... common Arithmetic , and think it the best cal- culated for that purpose of any which has fallen within my observation . JOHN ADAMS , Rector of Plainfield Academy . Now Principal of Philips ' Academy , Andover , Mass . ) Billerica ...
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... common business of life . Perfect accuracy , in a work of this nature , can hardly be expected ; errors of the press , or perhaps of the author , may have escaped correction . If any such are pointed out , it will be considered as a ...
... common business of life . Perfect accuracy , in a work of this nature , can hardly be expected ; errors of the press , or perhaps of the author , may have escaped correction . If any such are pointed out , it will be considered as a ...
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... common reck- oning , then the first two figures at the right of the separatrix or point , may be called so many cents instead of dimes and cents ; for the place of dimes is only the ten's place in cents ; because ten cents make a dime ...
... common reck- oning , then the first two figures at the right of the separatrix or point , may be called so many cents instead of dimes and cents ; for the place of dimes is only the ten's place in cents ; because ten cents make a dime ...
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... common practice throughout all the States . SIMPLE SUBTRACTION . Subtraction of whole Numbers , TEACHETH to take a less number from a greater , of the same denomination , and thereby shows the difference , or remainder : as 4 dollars ...
... common practice throughout all the States . SIMPLE SUBTRACTION . Subtraction of whole Numbers , TEACHETH to take a less number from a greater , of the same denomination , and thereby shows the difference , or remainder : as 4 dollars ...
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... common use ; but if the sum be very large , you may say , As 365 days is to the interest of one year :: so is the given number of days to the interest required . : EXAMPLES . 1. What is the interest of 751. 8s 110 SIMPLE INTEREST ...
... common use ; but if the sum be very large , you may say , As 365 days is to the interest of one year :: so is the given number of days to the interest required . : EXAMPLES . 1. What is the interest of 751. 8s 110 SIMPLE INTEREST ...
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100 dollars acres annuity annum answer barter Bought bushels ciphers common denominator common difference compound interest contain debt Deduct demand dimes Divide dividend divisor dols duct equal EXAMPLES federal money figure Find the value fraction required gain or loss gallon gals geometrical series given number given quantity gross guineas hhds hundred improper fraction inches least common multiple left hand lowest terms measure miles mills milreas mixed numbers months Multiply neat weight New-England currency New-York NOTE number of shillings number of terms paid payment pence pound pound sterling present worth principal quotient rate per cent ratio ready money remainder Required the interest right hand rods Rule of Three sell separatrix simple interest sold solid feet square root sterling subtract subtrahend sugar tare third Thomas Grosvenor tret tuns VULGAR FRACTIONS whole number wine yards cost
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Page 172 - IS the method of finding what quantity of each of tin ingre<linnts whose rates are given, will compose a mixture of a given rate ; so that it is the reverse of Alligation Medial, and may be proved by it. CASE I.
Page 162 - 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...
Page 177 - Multiply the sum of the extremes by the number of terms, and half the product will be the answer. EXAMPLES. 1. The first term of an arithmetical series is 3, the last term 23, and the number of terms 1 1 ; required the sum of the series.
Page 156 - 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, till all the payments are absorbed ; provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Page 202 - To measure a parallelogram, or long square. RULE. Multiply the length by the breadth, and the product will be the area, or superficial content.
Page 157 - Compute the interest on the principal sum, from the time when the interest commenced, to the first time when a payment was made, which exceeds, either alone, or in conjunction with the preceding payments, if any, the interest at that time due ; add that interest to the principal, and from...
Page 208 - Multiply the length by the breadth, and that product by the depth, divide the last product by 2150,425 the solid inches in a statute bushel, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 176 - I 2,4,6,8, &c. is an ascending arithmetical series : o ( 8,6,4,2, &c. is a descending arithmetical series : The numbers which form the series, are called the terms of the progression ; the first and last terms of which aro called the extremes.* PROBLEM I.
Page 38 - 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; setting down the remainder under the column added, and carry the quotient to the next superior denomination, continuing the same to the last, which add, as in simple addition.
Page 99 - Weight, which is the whole weight of any sort of goods, together with the box, cask, or bag, &c. which contains them. 2. Tare, which is an allowance made to the buyer, for the weight of the box, cask, or bag, ifec.