The Federal Arithmetic; Or, A Compendium of the Most Useful Rules of that Science: Adapted to the Currency of the United States. For the Use of Schools and Private Persons. Published Agreeably to Act of Congress. By James Noyes |
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100 dollars acres added Addition amount annex Answer assumed Balance barrel beginning Bought bring bushels carry cents cloth common compound interest contained continued cost currency cyphers decimal denomination difference dimes divide dividend Division divisor doll dollars Double English equal equivalent EXAMPLES farthings Federal Money feet figures fourth fraction gain gallons given greater gross half hand figure hogsheads hundred inches left hand less lowest man's Measure miles millions mills mixed number months multiplicand multiply neat weight ounces paid payment pence period pounds principal proceed Proof quarts question quotient Received Reduce remainder Required right hand rods root RULE saying sell share shillings single sold square root subtract tare teaches tens term third thousands trade VULGAR FRACTIONS weight whole whole numbers worth yards
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Page 111 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 76 - Or when the third term is greater than the first, and requires the fourth term to be less than...
Page 76 - ... for the second term, and the other for the first. III. finally, multiply the second and third terms together, divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the third term.
Page 91 - As the sum of the several products, Is to the whole gain or loss ; So is each man's particular product, To his particular share of the gain or loss.
Page 140 - A single, simple, or proper fraction, is when the numerator is less than the denominator, as 4 3 | -|f , &c.
Page 48 - ... therefore, divide as in whole numbers, and, 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 113 - Subtract the original principal from the last amount, and the remainder will be the Compound Interest. EXAMPLES.
Page 86 - ... multiply the first, second and last terms together for a dividend, and the other two for a divisor ; and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 150 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for. a new denominator.
Page 86 - State the question, by placing the three conditional terms in such order that that number which is the cause of gain, loss, or action, may possess the first place ; that which denotes space of time, or distance of place, the second ; and that which is the gain, loss, or action, the third.
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| Title | The Federal Arithmetic; Or, A Compendium of the Most Useful Rules of that Science: Adapted to the Currency of the United States. For the Use of Schools and Private Persons. Published Agreeably to Act of Congress. By James Noyes Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | James Noyes |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | By Henry Ranlet, for the author, 1808 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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