A brief compendium of arithmetic1835 |
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... difference . RULE . - Place the less number under the greater , units under units , tens under tens , & c . Begin at the right hand figure and subtract it from the figure above it , and continue from right to left . Add the remainder to ...
... difference . RULE . - Place the less number under the greater , units under units , tens under tens , & c . Begin at the right hand figure and subtract it from the figure above it , and continue from right to left . Add the remainder to ...
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... Difference Subtract £ 4 17s . 1d . from £ 17 13s . 44d . as often as you can . Remainder is £ 3 ls . 11 d . From £ 1000 take 3f .; and from £ 10000 take ‡ f . What is the difference between £ 74 16s . 8td . and £ 47 19s . 114d ...
... Difference Subtract £ 4 17s . 1d . from £ 17 13s . 44d . as often as you can . Remainder is £ 3 ls . 11 d . From £ 1000 take 3f .; and from £ 10000 take ‡ f . What is the difference between £ 74 16s . 8td . and £ 47 19s . 114d ...
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... difference between 1573 and the product of 27 , and 1276 ? Divide the product of 3765 and 36 , by 45 . What is the quotient of 784539 by 2691 ? A man was born in 1801 , when will he be 98 years old ? King George 4th . died in 1830 aged ...
... difference between 1573 and the product of 27 , and 1276 ? Divide the product of 3765 and 36 , by 45 . What is the quotient of 784539 by 2691 ? A man was born in 1801 , when will he be 98 years old ? King George 4th . died in 1830 aged ...
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... difference of value , and who must pay it ? A. The difference is 5s . which C must pay . How much tea at 10s . per lb. can I have in barter for lewt . 2qrs . 10lb . of chocolate , at 5s . per lb. ? A. 89lbs . A had 41cwt . of hops at ...
... difference of value , and who must pay it ? A. The difference is 5s . which C must pay . How much tea at 10s . per lb. can I have in barter for lewt . 2qrs . 10lb . of chocolate , at 5s . per lb. ? A. 89lbs . A had 41cwt . of hops at ...
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... differences between each price and the mean rate , set them alternately , they will be the answer required . Proof . - By Alligation Medial . Examples . If I would mix sugar at 4d . , 6d . , 10d . , and 12d . per pound , what quantity ...
... differences between each price and the mean rate , set them alternately , they will be the answer required . Proof . - By Alligation Medial . Examples . If I would mix sugar at 4d . , 6d . , 10d . , and 12d . per pound , what quantity ...
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2qrs 3qrs 7lbs aliquot ALLIGATION Amount annuity annum APOTHECARIES WEIGHT ARITHMETIC AVOIRDUPOISE WEIGHT Banco BEER MEASURE Bought bushel casks cent ciphers CLOTH MEASURE common denominator compound fractions Compound Interest Copecs crowns decimals Divide dividend DIVISION divisor DRY MEASURE Ducat ells Examples exchange Facit farthings feet find the value gallons Geometrical Progression given number given sum greater grotes guineas hogsheads improper fraction inches integer last rule last term left hand less Marcs miles mille-reis mixed numbers months Mult Multiplicand Multiply Neat weight number of terms Oqrs pence penny piastre pound sterling Prob Problem Proof proper quantity quotient Reduce remainder rix-dollars rouble RULE 2.-When Rule of Three RULE.-Multiply share of gain shil shillings short methods square root subtract Tare Tret TROY WEIGHT Vulgar Fractions wheat whole numbers WINE MEASURE wwwm yards cost
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Page 81 - ... 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 61 - To reduce fractions to a common denominator. RULE. Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Page 61 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Page 61 - RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator: then reduce the new fraction to its lowest terms.
Page 86 - Ans. £b 2s. 3. If 100 eggs were placed in a right line, exactly a yard asunder from one another, and the first a yard from a basket, what length of ground does that man go who gathers up these 100 eggs singly, returning with every egg to the basket to put it in I Ans.
Page 51 - RULE. Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due, then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 86 - There is a cellar dug that is 12 feet every way, in length, breadth, and depth; how many solid feet of earth were taken out of it? Ans. 1728. 42. How many bricks 9 inches long and 4 inches wide, will pave a yard that is 20 feet square?
Page 84 - Hence, when we have given the first term, the ratio, and the number of terms, to find the last term, we have this RULE.
Page 81 - 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 30 - As the whole sum of the products is to the whole gain or loss, so is each man's particular product to his particular share of the loss or gain.* EXAMPLES.