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... Square and Cube Roots , and the ufe of the Carpenters common Sliding Rule , with Proofs by GUNTER's Line and Dividers . I could have fuelled this Book to a much greater fize , but as the Price of it is fix'd fo low , it will not allow ...
... Square and Cube Roots , and the ufe of the Carpenters common Sliding Rule , with Proofs by GUNTER's Line and Dividers . I could have fuelled this Book to a much greater fize , but as the Price of it is fix'd fo low , it will not allow ...
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... square , and tell me how many fquare Feet there are in all . 144 ) 7776 ( 54 Anfwer . 720 576 Piece 576 ( 0 ) How much is the twelfth Part of a thirty - fix Shillings Anfwer . 3 Shillings . COMPOUND DIVISION . TEA EACHETH to divide ( by ...
... square , and tell me how many fquare Feet there are in all . 144 ) 7776 ( 54 Anfwer . 720 576 Piece 576 ( 0 ) How much is the twelfth Part of a thirty - fix Shillings Anfwer . 3 Shillings . COMPOUND DIVISION . TEA EACHETH to divide ( by ...
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... square . 1. B. I L. If 12-12- 12 8 ) 144 I. B. -8 Anf . 18 Inches long . If 28 Shillings will pay for the carriage of 1Cwt . 150 . Miles , how far may 6. be carried for the fame money . C. Miles . G. If I -150-6 I 6 ) 150 Anf . 25 Miles ...
... square . 1. B. I L. If 12-12- 12 8 ) 144 I. B. -8 Anf . 18 Inches long . If 28 Shillings will pay for the carriage of 1Cwt . 150 . Miles , how far may 6. be carried for the fame money . C. Miles . G. If I -150-6 I 6 ) 150 Anf . 25 Miles ...
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... whole numbers . If 26lb . of Ginger coft Il 6s . what coft gib . If 26-1.30-3 3 26 ) 3.90 ( 15 Auf . 35 . 2 6 and is Proof I 30 130 of the laft Example . • Extraction of the Square Root . E out fuch 328 Decimal FRACTION S.
... whole numbers . If 26lb . of Ginger coft Il 6s . what coft gib . If 26-1.30-3 3 26 ) 3.90 ( 15 Auf . 35 . 2 6 and is Proof I 30 130 of the laft Example . • Extraction of the Square Root . E out fuch 328 Decimal FRACTION S.
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J. Brookes. • Extraction of the Square Root . E out fuch a number as being multiplied into itself , the Product will be equal to the given number . As the Square Root of 81 is 9 , confequently 9 x9 81 , the given number . Roots . 1 2 3 4 ...
J. Brookes. • Extraction of the Square Root . E out fuch a number as being multiplied into itself , the Product will be equal to the given number . As the Square Root of 81 is 9 , confequently 9 x9 81 , the given number . Roots . 1 2 3 4 ...
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Page 243 - When one has goods at a certain price ready money, but in barter advances it to something more, say, As the ready money price of the one ; is to its bartering price ; ; so is the ready money price of the other to its bartering, price: then the quantity of the latter commodity may be found, cither from the ready money or bartering price.
Page 329 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 329 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 66 - Cut off the ciphers from the right of the divisor, and the same number of figures from the right of the dividend ; and then divide the remaining figures of the dividend by the remaining figures of the divisor.
Page 128 - If 48 men can build a wall in 24 days, how many men can do it in 192 days ? Ans. 6 men. 3. If 100 men can finish a piece of work in 12 days, how many can do it in 3 days?
Page 132 - There was a certain building erected in 8 months by 120 w'orkmen, but the same being demolished, it is required to b'e rebuilt in 2 months ; I demand how many men must be employed to do it ? . Ans . 480 men; 10.
Page 333 - RULE. 1. Point every third figure of the cube given, beginning at the unit's place, seek the greatest cube to the first point and subtract it therefrom, put the root in the quotient, and bring down the figures in the next point to the...
Page 273 - ... 4. Then, if only one difference ftand againft any rate, it will be the quantity belonging to that rate ; but if there be feveral, their fum wiU be the quantity.
Page 130 - ... to be lined with shalloon of 3 quarters wide ; I demand how many yards of shalloon will line them?
Page 290 - If the Errors are alike, that is, both greater, or both less than the given Number, take their Difference for a Divisor, and the Difference* of their Products for a Dividend. But if unlike, that is, one too much, and the other too little, then take their Sum for a Divisor, and the Sum of their Products for a Dividend ; the Quotient will be the Answer.