Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged, Being a Plain Practical System of Arithemtic; Adapted to the United States |
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... length is considered , without regard to breadth . N. B. In measuring the height of horses , 4 inches make 1 hand . In measuring depths , six feet make 1 fathom , Tor French toise . Distances are measured by a chain , Ufour rods long ...
... length is considered , without regard to breadth . N. B. In measuring the height of horses , 4 inches make 1 hand . In measuring depths , six feet make 1 fathom , Tor French toise . Distances are measured by a chain , Ufour rods long ...
Page 13
... length , breadth and depth , are measured by this measure . N. B. The wine gallon contains 231 solid or cubic inches , and the beer gallon , 282. A bushel contains 2150,42 solid inches . 11 . Time . 60 seconds ( S. ) make 1 minute ...
... length , breadth and depth , are measured by this measure . N. B. The wine gallon contains 231 solid or cubic inches , and the beer gallon , 282. A bushel contains 2150,42 solid inches . 11 . Time . 60 seconds ( S. ) make 1 minute ...
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... length in the distance of 12800 leagues and ten yards ? Ans . 2079508 . 10. The sun is 95,000,000 of miles from the earth , and a cannon ball at its first discharge flies about a mile in 7 seconds ; how long would a cannon ball be , at ...
... length in the distance of 12800 leagues and ten yards ? Ans . 2079508 . 10. The sun is 95,000,000 of miles from the earth , and a cannon ball at its first discharge flies about a mile in 7 seconds ; how long would a cannon ball be , at ...
Page 108
... he perform it when the day is but 10 hours long ? Ans . 6 days . 3. What length of board 73 inches wide , will make a square foot ? Ans . 191 inches . 4. If five dollars will pay for the carriage of 108 RULE OF THREE INVERSE .
... he perform it when the day is but 10 hours long ? Ans . 6 days . 3. What length of board 73 inches wide , will make a square foot ? Ans . 191 inches . 4. If five dollars will pay for the carriage of 108 RULE OF THREE INVERSE .
Page 168
... length that is make a square foot ? Ans . days . acres , in how many Ans . 18 days . 7 inches broad , will Ans . 20 inches . 5. If 254s . will pay for the carriage of an cwt . 1451 miles ; how far may 6 cwt . be ney ? 6. How many yards ...
... length that is make a square foot ? Ans . days . acres , in how many Ans . 18 days . 7 inches broad , will Ans . 20 inches . 5. If 254s . will pay for the carriage of an cwt . 1451 miles ; how far may 6 cwt . be ney ? 6. How many yards ...
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Page 176 - 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 182 - 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 176 - But if any payment be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year : add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as above...
Page 186 - 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 25 - If the lower figure is greater than that, above it, add ten to the upper figure ; from which number so increased, take the lower and set down the remainder, carrying one to the next lower number, with which proceed as before, and so on till the whole is finished.
Page 140 - ... months : what is the equated time for the payment of the whole ? Ans.
Page 213 - A young 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 ten miles an hour, and the dog, on view, makes after her at the rate of 18.
Page 236 - 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...
Page 157 - A single, simple, or proper fraction, is when the numerator is less than the denominator, as 4 3 | -|f , &c.
Page 84 - ... from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.