Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged. Being a Plain Praactical System of Arithmetic, Adapted to the United States |
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... Divisor , or number given to divide by . 3. The Quotient , or answer to the question , which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend . 4. The Remainder , which is always less than the divisor and of the same name ...
... Divisor , or number given to divide by . 3. The Quotient , or answer to the question , which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend . 4. The Remainder , which is always less than the divisor and of the same name ...
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... divisor is contained in as many of the left hand figures of the dividend as are just necessary ; ( that is , find the greatest figure that the divisor can be multiplied by , so as to produce a product that shall not exceed the part of ...
... divisor is contained in as many of the left hand figures of the dividend as are just necessary ; ( that is , find the greatest figure that the divisor can be multiplied by , so as to produce a product that shall not exceed the part of ...
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... Divisor . Dividend . Quotient , 307140 12 Remainder . ) 9182 CASE II . 234063 ) 590624922 ( Quotient ) 83973 47614 ) 327879186 987654 ( 988641654 ( When there are ciphers at the right hand of the divisor , cut off the ciphers in the divisor ...
... Divisor . Dividend . Quotient , 307140 12 Remainder . ) 9182 CASE II . 234063 ) 590624922 ( Quotient ) 83973 47614 ) 327879186 987654 ( 988641654 ( When there are ciphers at the right hand of the divisor , cut off the ciphers in the divisor ...
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... Divisor does not exceed 12 . RULE . Consider how many times the divisor is contained in the årst figure or figures of the dividend , put the result under , and carry is many tens to the next figure as there are ones over . Divide every ...
... Divisor does not exceed 12 . RULE . Consider how many times the divisor is contained in the årst figure or figures of the dividend , put the result under , and carry is many tens to the next figure as there are ones over . Divide every ...
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... divisor is such a number , that any two figure in the Table , being multiplied together , will produce it , di . vide the given dividend by one of those figures ; the quo- tient thence arising by the other ; and the last quotient will ...
... divisor is such a number , that any two figure in the Table , being multiplied together , will produce it , di . vide the given dividend by one of those figures ; the quo- tient thence arising by the other ; and the last quotient will ...
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100 dollars acres annuity annum answer Anthony Billings arithmetical series Bought bushels ciphers common denominator compound interest containing cube dimes Divide dividend divisor dols Ell English equal EXAMPLES federal money figure Find the value gain or loss gallon gals geometrical series given number given sum gross hhds hundred improper fraction inches least common multiple left hand lowest terms measure merchant miles mills milreas mixed numbers months Multiply neat weight New-England currency New-York NOTE Nova-Scotia currency number of shillings 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 RULE.-Multiply the given separatrix simple interest sold square root sterling subtract sugar tare third Thomas Grosvenor tret tuns VULGAR FRACTIONS whole number wine yards cost
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Page 162 - 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 162 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total. If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due to the next payment, arid 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 208 - To measure a parallelogram or long square. RULE.— Multiply the length by the breadth, and the product will be the area, or superficial content, in the same name as that in which the dimension was taken, whether inches, feet, or rods, etc.
Page 168 - ... subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. " Place the double of the root, already found, on the lefl hand of the dividend for a divisor.
Page 147 - Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Page 163 - 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 the sum subtract the payment made at that time, together with the preceding payments (if any) and the remainder forms a new principal ; on which, compute and subtract the interest, as upon the first principal: and proceed...
Page 214 - How many bricks, 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 2 inches thick, will it take to build a wall 40 feet long, 20 feet high, and 2 feet thick ? Ans.
Page 183 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 227 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator, BA as and for his last will and testament...
Page 190 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.