Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged, Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetic, Adapted to the United States |
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... third place , or place of hundreds , it becomes a hundred times its simple value , and so on , as in the following Note . — Although a cipher standing alone signifies nothing ; yet when it is placed on the right hard of figures , it ...
... third place , or place of hundreds , it becomes a hundred times its simple value , and so on , as in the following Note . — Although a cipher standing alone signifies nothing ; yet when it is placed on the right hard of figures , it ...
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... third mills . * ADDITION OF FEDERAL MONEY . RULE . - 1 . Place the numbers according to their value ; that is , dollars under dollars , dimes under dimes , cents under cents , & c . and proceed exactly as in whole numbers ; then place ...
... third mills . * ADDITION OF FEDERAL MONEY . RULE . - 1 . Place the numbers according to their value ; that is , dollars under dollars , dimes under dimes , cents under cents , & c . and proceed exactly as in whole numbers ; then place ...
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... third method of proof by excess of nines is as follows , viz . 1. Cast the nines out of tre divisor , and place the excess on the left hand . 2. Do the same with the quotient , and place it on the right hand . 3. Multiply these two ...
... third method of proof by excess of nines is as follows , viz . 1. Cast the nines out of tre divisor , and place the excess on the left hand . 2. Do the same with the quotient , and place it on the right hand . 3. Multiply these two ...
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... third 197. 14s . 6d . and the fourth as much as all the other three , lacking 19s . 6d . I demand the whole sum received ? Ans . £ 165 5s . 4d . 2. TROY WEIGHT . lb. oz . pret . From 6 11 14 Take 2 3 16 oz . prot . 4 19 lb. oz . prot ...
... third 197. 14s . 6d . and the fourth as much as all the other three , lacking 19s . 6d . I demand the whole sum received ? Ans . £ 165 5s . 4d . 2. TROY WEIGHT . lb. oz . pret . From 6 11 14 Take 2 3 16 oz . prot . 4 19 lb. oz . prot ...
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... third of it ; how much remains unsold ? Ans . 11 cwt . 3g grs . 22 lb. 15. From a piece of cloth containing 64 yards 2 na . a tailor was ordered to make 9 soldiers ' coats , which took one third of the whole piece ; how many yards did ...
... third of it ; how much remains unsold ? Ans . 11 cwt . 3g grs . 22 lb. 15. From a piece of cloth containing 64 yards 2 na . a tailor was ordered to make 9 soldiers ' coats , which took one third of the whole piece ; how many yards did ...
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100 dollars acres annuity annum answer Anthony Billings Bought bushels ciphers common denominator compound interest containing Deduct demand 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 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 sell separatrix simple interest sold square root sterling subtract subtrahend sugar tare third Thomas Grosvenor tret tuns VULGAR FRACTIONS whole number wine yards cost
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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, 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 167 - 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,) for the first figure of the root, and the square number under the period, and subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend.
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 214 - Take the length of the keel within board (so much as she treads on the ground) and the breadth within board by the midship beam, from plank to plank, and half the breadth for the depth, then multiply the length by the breadth, and that product by the depth, and divide the whole by 94; the quotient will give the true contents of the tonnage.
Page 91 - 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 anv other denomination required.
Page 227 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator, BA as and for his last will and testament...
Page 76 - ... 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.
Page 222 - 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, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise...
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 175 - Find how many times the divisor may be had in the dividend, and the quotient will be another figure of the root. 6. Involve the whole root to the given power, and subtract it (always) from as many periods of the given number as you have found figures in the root.