Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged; Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetic: Adapted to the United States |
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... allowing 14 yards to a coat ? 6. DRY MEASURE . Ans . 21 . 1. In 136 bushels , how many pecks , quarts and pints ? Ans . 544pks . 4352qts . 8704pts . 2. In 49 bush . Spks . 5qts . how many quarts ? S. In 8704 pints , how many bushels 4 ...
... allowing 14 yards to a coat ? 6. DRY MEASURE . Ans . 21 . 1. In 136 bushels , how many pecks , quarts and pints ? Ans . 544pks . 4352qts . 8704pts . 2. In 49 bush . Spks . 5qts . how many quarts ? S. In 8704 pints , how many bushels 4 ...
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... allowing the year to contain 365 days , 6 hours . Ans . 656554d . 6h . 6. Suppose your age to be 16 years and 20 days , how many seconds old are you , allowing 365 days and 6 hours to the year ? Ans . 506649600sec . 7. From March 2d ...
... allowing the year to contain 365 days , 6 hours . Ans . 656554d . 6h . 6. Suppose your age to be 16 years and 20 days , how many seconds old are you , allowing 365 days and 6 hours to the year ? Ans . 506649600sec . 7. From March 2d ...
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... allowing every pint to be a pound , what burden was the ship of ? Ans . 44415 gals . and the ship's burden was 158 tons , 12cwt . 2grs . 6. In 15 pieces of cloth , each piece 20 yds . how many French Elis ? Ans . 200 . 7. In 10 bales of ...
... allowing every pint to be a pound , what burden was the ship of ? Ans . 44415 gals . and the ship's burden was 158 tons , 12cwt . 2grs . 6. In 15 pieces of cloth , each piece 20 yds . how many French Elis ? Ans . 200 . 7. In 10 bales of ...
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... allowing trett as usual ? Ans . 12cwt . Ogrs . 6lh . 5. In 25 barrels of figs , each 84 lb. gross , tare 12 lb. per cwt . trett 4 lb. per 104 lb .; how many pounds neat ? Ans . 1803+ 6. What is the value of the neat weight of 4 barrels ...
... allowing trett as usual ? Ans . 12cwt . Ogrs . 6lh . 5. In 25 barrels of figs , each 84 lb. gross , tare 12 lb. per cwt . trett 4 lb. per 104 lb .; how many pounds neat ? Ans . 1803+ 6. What is the value of the neat weight of 4 barrels ...
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... allowing 30 days to the month , and taking aliquot parts of the same . * * By allowing the month to be 30 days , and taking aliquot parts thereof , you will have the interest of any ordinary sum sufficiently exact for common use ; but ...
... allowing 30 days to the month , and taking aliquot parts of the same . * * By allowing the month to be 30 days , and taking aliquot parts thereof , you will have the interest of any ordinary sum sufficiently exact for common use ; but ...
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Page 36 - RULE.* 1. 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...
Page 21 - Subtract the subtrahend from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend, with which proceed as before ; and so on, till the whole is finished.
Page 96 - Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide their product by the first term ; the quotient will be the answer to the question, in the same denomination you left the second term in, which may be brought into any other denomination required.
Page 183 - Involve the root to the next inferior power to that which is given, and multiply it by the number denoting the given power for a divisor.
Page 216 - 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 162 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 21 - Place the least number under the greatest, so that units may stand under units, tens under tens, &c. and draw a line under them. 2. Begin at the right hand, and take each figure in the lower line from the figure above it, and set down the remainder. 3.
Page 191 - RULE.* — Multiply the sum of the extremes by the number of terms, and half the product will be the answer.
Page 226 - 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 151 - A single, simple, or proper fraction, is when the numerator is less than the denominator, as 4 3 | -|f , &c.