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... BOSTON : ROBERT S. DAVIS , AND GOULD , KENDALL , & LINCOLN . NEW YORK : PRATT , WOODFORD , & Co. , AND COLLINS , BROTHER , & Co. PHILADELPHIA : THOMAS , COWPERTHWAIT , & Co. BALTIMORE : CUSHING & BROTHER And sold by the trade generally ...
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... BOSTON , And sold by the principal Booksellers throughout the United States . This small and cheap work , having been prepared at the urgent solicitation of many distinguished teachers , in various parts of the United States , who have ...
... BOSTON , And sold by the principal Booksellers throughout the United States . This small and cheap work , having been prepared at the urgent solicitation of many distinguished teachers , in various parts of the United States , who have ...
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... Boston Atheneum . And to such as wish to go more extensively into the subject than he has , he would recommend Grund's Merchants ' As- sistant , as the only thorough work on the subject , published in this country . As some parts of the ...
... Boston Atheneum . And to such as wish to go more extensively into the subject than he has , he would recommend Grund's Merchants ' As- sistant , as the only thorough work on the subject , published in this country . As some parts of the ...
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... Boston is 30 miles , to Salem is 22 ; how much farther is it to Boston than Salem ? 19. I have a book of 75 pages , I have read 60 of them ; how many remain to be read ? 20. I have a field of 48 rows of corn , I have hoed 30 of them ...
... Boston is 30 miles , to Salem is 22 ; how much farther is it to Boston than Salem ? 19. I have a book of 75 pages , I have read 60 of them ; how many remain to be read ? 20. I have a field of 48 rows of corn , I have hoed 30 of them ...
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... Boston is 30 miles ; and if a man travel 6 miles an hour , how long will he be in going this distance ? Ans . 5 hours . 9. The annual revenue of a gentleman being $ 8395 , how much per day is that equivalent to , there being 365 days in ...
... Boston is 30 miles ; and if a man travel 6 miles an hour , how long will he be in going this distance ? Ans . 5 hours . 9. The annual revenue of a gentleman being $ 8395 , how much per day is that equivalent to , there being 365 days in ...
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Page 200 - 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...
Page 145 - 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 29 - 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 252 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, &c.
Page 141 - 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 9 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 256 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 145 - But if any payments be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation for one year,* add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid from the time it was paid up to the end of the year; add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added together.
Page 205 - RULE. 1. Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over the unit figure, and every third figure from the place of units to the left, and if there be decimals, to the right.
Page 105 - RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and divide the product by the numerator.