 | Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...mentioned. 3. Multiply the second and third numbers together, and divide.* the product by the first, and the quotient will be the answer to the question, in the same denomination you left the second number in ; which may be brought into any other denomination required.... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...others were taken. In the second method, having stated the proportion, according to the proper rule, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the fourth term required, for the natural numbers. Or, in working by logarithms,... | |
 | Charles Vyse - Arithmetic - 1806 - 342 pages
...mentioned. 3. Multiply the second and third Terms together, and divide that Product by the first. ' The Quotient will be the Answer to the Question, in the same Denomination or Name you left your second Term in. 4. If there happens to be a Remainder after the... | |
 | James Thompson - Arithmetic - 1808 - 176 pages
...term ; and that which is of the same name or quality with the answer required, the second term. Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first. The quotient will be the fourth term or answer, in the same name or denomination as the second term... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...as much greater, or less than the third, as the second term is greater, or less than the first, then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term, and the quotient will be the answer ; — in the same denomination with the third term. EXAMPLES. If... | |
 | Francis Nichols - Plane trigonometry - 1811 - 162 pages
...analogy be formed according to the proper rule above delivered; then, if the natural numbers be used, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first; the quotient will be the fourth term required. If logarithms be used, add the logarithms of the second... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...DIRECT PROPORTION. RULE. « Prepare the given terms, if necessary, and state them as in whole numbers ; multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first. Or, / . Invert the dividing term, and multiply the three tejgms together, as in Multiplication. * EXAMPLES.... | |
 | Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...denomination ; and reduce the middle number, or term, into the lowest denomination mentioned : then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first ; the quotient will be the answer, or fourth term sought ; and always will be of the same depomiiuition... | |
 | Samuel Webber - Arithmetic - 1812 - 260 pages
...mentioned. 3. Multiply the second and third numbers together, and divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the answer to the question, in the same denomination you left the second number in ; which may be brought into any other denoroina- . don required.... | |
 | John Gough - Arithmetic - 1813 - 358 pages
...fraction must be of th« same name or kind, and reduced to fractions of the same name or denominator. Multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first; the quotient is the fourth term required ; due regard being had to the rules laid down for multiplying,... | |
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Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer. 
