The Tutor's Assistant: Being a Compendium of Practical Arithmetic, for the Use of Schools Or Private Students ...[Printed and pub. by] H. Mozley, 1833 |
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... supposed to have flourished 907 years previous to the commencement of the christian era . Admitting this to be fact , how many years was it from Homer's time to the close of the 18th century ; and how long to A. D. 1827 ? SUBTRACTION ...
... supposed to have flourished 907 years previous to the commencement of the christian era . Admitting this to be fact , how many years was it from Homer's time to the close of the 18th century ; and how long to A. D. 1827 ? SUBTRACTION ...
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... supposed that the English inch was origi- nally taken from three grains of barley , selected from the middle of the ear , and well dried . A twelfth part of an inch is called a line . 4 inches are a hand , used in measuring the height ...
... supposed that the English inch was origi- nally taken from three grains of barley , selected from the middle of the ear , and well dried . A twelfth part of an inch is called a line . 4 inches are a hand , used in measuring the height ...
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... supposed value of the whole ; out of which the aliquot part or parts are to be taken for the real price . NOTE . An aliquot part of a number is such a part as being taken a certain number of times will produce the number exactly : thus ...
... supposed value of the whole ; out of which the aliquot part or parts are to be taken for the real price . NOTE . An aliquot part of a number is such a part as being taken a certain number of times will produce the number exactly : thus ...
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... supposed to be divided into 12 equal parts : so that if it be one shilling , each part will be one - twelfth of ls . or one penny . The Numerator shows that 5 is the number of those twelfth parts intended to be taken : so of a shilling ...
... supposed to be divided into 12 equal parts : so that if it be one shilling , each part will be one - twelfth of ls . or one penny . The Numerator shows that 5 is the number of those twelfth parts intended to be taken : so of a shilling ...
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... supposed to be divided into tenths , hundredths , thousandth parts , & c . consequently the denominator is always 10 , or 100 , or 1000 , & c . In our system of Notation , the figures of a whole number follow each other in a decimal ...
... supposed to be divided into tenths , hundredths , thousandth parts , & c . consequently the denominator is always 10 , or 100 , or 1000 , & c . In our system of Notation , the figures of a whole number follow each other in a decimal ...
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acres aliquot amount angle annuity annum Arithmetical avoirdupois Bernard Mason bill Bought breadth bushels carry Cash chord ciphers Circular Segments circumference Compound Interest crowns cube root debt decimal denominator denote diameter difference discount Divide dividend division divisor dwts equal EXAMPLE farthings feet 6 inches figures find the area fraction gallons given number greater gross guineas half hogsheads hundred Integer lease least common multiple length less London MEASURE miles moidore Mult multiplicand Multiply neat weight number of days number of terms ounce paid payable pence pieces pound sterling pounds present payment present worth principal purchase quantity quart quarters quotient rate per cent Reduce remainder rent shillings side Simple Interest sold square root square yard sterling subtract subtrahend supposed Table tare Theorems third thousand troy TROY WEIGHT Vulgar Fractions whole number yards of cloth yearly
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Page 115 - The top of a castle from the ground is 45 yards high, and is surrounded with a ditch 60 yards broad ; what length must a ladder be to reach from the outside of the ditch to the top of the castle ? Ans.
Page 85 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Page 168 - ... multiply the square of the diameter by ,7854 and the product will be- the area.
Page 124 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 125 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1 is the number of terms.
Page 120 - EXAMPLES. 1. A schoolmaster, being asked how many scholars he had, said, If I had as many, half as many, and one quarter as many more, I should have 264: how many had he?
Page 165 - Multiply the sum of the two parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page vii - ... best to tread the old beaten Path, and to sweat at their Business when they may do it with Pleasure, may start an Objection against the Use of this well intended Assistant. Another author writes in more detail and lets us see more of the schoolroom technique and the reason for having printed texts : Having some time ago drawn up a set of rules and proper questions, with their answers annexed, for the use of my own school and divided them into several books, as well for more ease to myself as...
Page 84 - Hence the rule .for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers : Divide the greater number by the less, and that divisor by the remainder, and so on, always dividing the last divisor by the last remainder, till nothing remain.
Page 176 - As three times three does three. But when ten years and half ten years We man and wife had been, Her age approached as near to mine As eight is to sixteen.