The Private Instructor, Or Mathematics Simplified: Comprising Every Thing Necessary in Arithnetic, Book-keeping, Conveyancing, Mensuration, and Guaging, to Form and Complete the Man of Business. The Whole Upon an Improved Plan ... |
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... yards of cloth for seventy dollars , 15 yards of linen for nine dollars , 25 yards of silk for forty - seven dol- lars , 100 yards of muslin for thirteen dollars , 20 yards of cassinet for twenty - five dollars , and other goods to the ...
... yards of cloth for seventy dollars , 15 yards of linen for nine dollars , 25 yards of silk for forty - seven dol- lars , 100 yards of muslin for thirteen dollars , 20 yards of cassinet for twenty - five dollars , and other goods to the ...
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... yards - How many pieces and yards were therein ? Ans . 688 pieces ; 13072 yards . 8. A quantity of rails was hauled at 96 loads ; each load 104 rails - How many were there ? Ans . 9984 . ADDITION , SUBTRACTION AND MULTIPLI- CATION . 1 ...
... yards - How many pieces and yards were therein ? Ans . 688 pieces ; 13072 yards . 8. A quantity of rails was hauled at 96 loads ; each load 104 rails - How many were there ? Ans . 9984 . ADDITION , SUBTRACTION AND MULTIPLI- CATION . 1 ...
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... Yards . Acres . From 513.49 126.4974 576.159 Take 27.16 17.143 31.27843 486.33 109.3544 544.88057 1. From 70.41 take 16.42 , and tell what is left . Ans . 53.99 . 2. Borrowed two hundred dollars , and paid one hundred and eighty - seven ...
... Yards . Acres . From 513.49 126.4974 576.159 Take 27.16 17.143 31.27843 486.33 109.3544 544.88057 1. From 70.41 take 16.42 , and tell what is left . Ans . 53.99 . 2. Borrowed two hundred dollars , and paid one hundred and eighty - seven ...
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... yard , to conform to that in use in this Common- wealth at the date of the Declaration of Independence , the positive standard to be obtained as hereinafter described ; and that one - third of said yard shall be one foot , and that one ...
... yard , to conform to that in use in this Common- wealth at the date of the Declaration of Independence , the positive standard to be obtained as hereinafter described ; and that one - third of said yard shall be one foot , and that one ...
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... yard , to constitute the posi- tive standard of length in this Commonwealth ; said standard to be equal in length , at the temperature of melting ice , to the distance between the eleventh and forty - seventh inches on a certain brass ...
... yard , to constitute the posi- tive standard of length in this Commonwealth ; said standard to be equal in length , at the temperature of melting ice , to the distance between the eleventh and forty - seventh inches on a certain brass ...
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acres aforesaid Alexander Harper amount Answer avoirdupois barrel Bought breadth bushels cash in full cask cents per pound Chester county circumference containing cost cube root cubic Davis Mahan decimal denominator discount divide dividend divisor dolls drams Ducat dwts equal Examples federal money figures Funchal furlongs gain gallons George Price given grains hand and seal heirs and assigns hereby horse hundred and thirty-six hundred dollars improper fraction interest lars length maravedies measure miles moidore months Multiply neat weight Note ounces paid payment pecks pennyweights perches Peter Fulton piece poles quantity quarters quarts quotient rate per cent received Reduce remainder roods RULE scalage Sealed and delivered side sold specific gravity square root subtract sundries tare term thousand eight hundred township unto VULGAR FRACTIONS whereof whole number wish to know yards
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