Temple's Arithmetick: A Concise Introduction to Practical Arithmetick; in which All the Rules that Occur in Common Business are Applied to the Federal Currency ...

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Lincoln & Edmands, 1825 - Mathematics - 107 pages

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Page 3 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 51 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 53 - To reduce fractions of different denominators to equivalent fractions, having...
Page 81 - Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third ; the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the middle term was reduced into.
Page 14 - Cut off- as many figures from the right hand of the dividend as there are ciphers in the divisor. The remaining figures of the dividend will be the quotient, and those cut off the remainder.
Page 59 - To divide one fractional quantity by another. RULE. Multiply the denominator of the divisor by the numerator of the dividend, for the numerator ; and the numerator of the divisor by the denominator of the dividend, for the denominator.
Page 52 - To reduce an improper fraction to a whole or mixed number, — RULE : Divide the numerator by the denominator ; the quotient will be the whole or mixed number.
Page 87 - 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.

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