The School-master's Guide: Or, a Complete System of Practical Arithmetic: Adapted to the Use of Schools. ... The Second Edition. By Charles Hutton, ... |
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... answers , after that rule , are ab- breviated as much as poffible . The operations of addition , fubtraction , multiplica- tion , and divifion , are delivered , firft in fimple num- bers , and afterwards in compound ; for that ...
... answers , after that rule , are ab- breviated as much as poffible . The operations of addition , fubtraction , multiplica- tion , and divifion , are delivered , firft in fimple num- bers , and afterwards in compound ; for that ...
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... and may be placed after the last quote , according to the order of their names , the greater first Y fo fhall the compound number thus formed be the answer . C of • Farthings Pence | 4 48 960 of MONEY . REDUCTION . $ 3 . Reduction.
... and may be placed after the last quote , according to the order of their names , the greater first Y fo fhall the compound number thus formed be the answer . C of • Farthings Pence | 4 48 960 of MONEY . REDUCTION . $ 3 . Reduction.
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... answer or number required . 2. Confider whether the answer ought to be greater or lefs than this number : then write refpectively the greater or or lefs of the two remaining numbers on the right 34 RULE OF THREE . Rule-of-Three Page I ...
... answer or number required . 2. Confider whether the answer ought to be greater or lefs than this number : then write refpectively the greater or or lefs of the two remaining numbers on the right 34 RULE OF THREE . Rule-of-Three Page I ...
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... answer . Note 1. When you can conveniently multiply and divide as in compound mul · tiplication and divifion , it is best so to do . 2. But if not , reduce the compound terms to the lowest name mentioned in them , and the ift and 3d to ...
... answer . Note 1. When you can conveniently multiply and divide as in compound mul · tiplication and divifion , it is best so to do . 2. But if not , reduce the compound terms to the lowest name mentioned in them , and the ift and 3d to ...
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... - cation , multiply continually together the 2d and 3d terms and the reciprocal of the 1ft , for the answer . EXAM PLES 1. If of a yard of velvet coft Ex- 52 RULE - OF - THREE in VULGAR FRACTIONS . Rule-of-Three in Vulgar Fractions.
... - cation , multiply continually together the 2d and 3d terms and the reciprocal of the 1ft , for the answer . EXAM PLES 1. If of a yard of velvet coft Ex- 52 RULE - OF - THREE in VULGAR FRACTIONS . Rule-of-Three in Vulgar Fractions.
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Page 148 - A hare starts 40 yards before a grey-hound, and is not perceived by him till she has been up 40 seconds : she scuds away at the rate of...
Page 109 - 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 39 - If a footman travel 130 miles in 3 days, when the days are 12 hours long ; in how many days, of 10 hours each, may he travel 360 miles ? Ans. 9|f days. 5. If 120 bushels of corn can serve 14 horses 56 days, how many days will 94 bushels serve 6 horses?
Page 140 - If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 44 - 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 32 - ... number, if any, which was in this denomination before, then divide the sum as usual, and so on, till the whole is finished. The method of proof is the same as in Simple Division.
Page 43 - RULE. Divide the numerator by the denominator, and the quotient will be the whole or mixed number sought.
Page 144 - If a quantity of provisions serves 1500 men 12 weeks, at the rate of 20 ounces a day for each man, how many men will the same provisions maintain for 20 weeks, at the rate of 8 ounces a day for each man ? 55.
Page 57 - ... 1 from 5 to 15 ; 2 from 15 to 25 ; 3 from 25 to 35, &c.
Page 104 - RULE. Find, as in Alligation Medial, what will be the rate of a mixture made of the given quantities of the limited ingredients only; then consider this as the rate of a limited ingredient, whose quantity is the sum of the...