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Anderson's Mercantile Letters.

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A Manual of brief Commercial Arithmetic, being an easy, simple, and efficient auxiliary in the working of difficult and complicated Problems; applied to Proportion, simple and compound, direct and inverse; Discount; Barter; Interest, simple or compound; Profit and Loss; Fractional Numbers; Exchange; Tare, &c. For the use of Schools, Counting-houses, and Self-Tuition.

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