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... dollars seventy - five cents , three months after date . $ 17.94 NUMBER III . Utica , July 4 , 1828 . For value received , we , jointly and severally , promise to pay to C. D. , or order , seventeen dollars ninety - four cents , on ...
... dollars seventy - five cents , three months after date . $ 17.94 NUMBER III . Utica , July 4 , 1828 . For value received , we , jointly and severally , promise to pay to C. D. , or order , seventeen dollars ninety - four cents , on ...
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... dollars , with legal interest for the same , on or before the eleventh day of next ensuing the date hereof , -then ... dollars in full of all demands . PETER PARLEY . Philadelphia , Oct. 9 , 1827 . Received of Mr. JAMES PAYWELL , five ...
... dollars , with legal interest for the same , on or before the eleventh day of next ensuing the date hereof , -then ... dollars in full of all demands . PETER PARLEY . Philadelphia , Oct. 9 , 1827 . Received of Mr. JAMES PAYWELL , five ...
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... dollars , the se- cond 345 , and the third 937 ? Dollars . Thou . W ~ Hund . . · Tens Units 1 5 12 . 14 • 1 5 3 5 253 345 937 1535 Answer . Dol . First , we set the numbers down with units under units , tens un- der tens , & c . Then we ...
... dollars , the se- cond 345 , and the third 937 ? Dollars . Thou . W ~ Hund . . · Tens Units 1 5 12 . 14 • 1 5 3 5 253 345 937 1535 Answer . Dol . First , we set the numbers down with units under units , tens un- der tens , & c . Then we ...
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... dollars . 2. How much in 3 bags of money , one containing 756 dollars , another 817 , and a third 989 ? Ans . 2562 dollars . 3. Bought 5 loads of hay , weighing as follows , viz . 1st load 2475 pounds , 2d 1964 pounds , 3d 1843 pounds ...
... dollars . 2. How much in 3 bags of money , one containing 756 dollars , another 817 , and a third 989 ? Ans . 2562 dollars . 3. Bought 5 loads of hay , weighing as follows , viz . 1st load 2475 pounds , 2d 1964 pounds , 3d 1843 pounds ...
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... dollars ; he left to his son 1735 dollars more than to his daughter ; what was the son's portion ? and what the whole estate ? Ans . { Son's portion 17,149 dollars . { Whole estate 32,563 ... THEORETICAL QUESTIONS . ... What are simple ...
... dollars ; he left to his son 1735 dollars more than to his daughter ; what was the son's portion ? and what the whole estate ? Ans . { Son's portion 17,149 dollars . { Whole estate 32,563 ... THEORETICAL QUESTIONS . ... What are simple ...
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Page 6 - An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and. Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 6 - District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, That on the tenth day of August, AD 1827, in the fifty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM EMMONS, of the said district, has deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit: " The FREDONIAD; or, Independence Preserved.
Page 9 - EF, or his certain attorney, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Page 76 - RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 37 - OPERATIONS WITH FRACTIONS A) To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, simply multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction and add the numerator.
Page 147 - The power is applied to the circumference of the wheel, and the weight to the circumference of the axle.
Page 131 - Multiply together the powers belonging to those indices, and their product, multiplied by the first term, will be the term sought. 2. If the first term be 5, and the ratio 3, what is the 8th term ? Powers of the ratio, with U g 3_ + * — 2187 X 5 first their indices over them. ) <3, ,9, 27
Page 103 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 133 - Raise the ratio to a power whose index is equal to the number of terms, from which subtract 1 ; divide the remainder by the ratio, less 1, and the quotient, multiplied by the first term, will be the answer.
Page 114 - When first the marriage knot was tied Betwixt my wife and me, My age did hers as far exceed As three times three does three ; , But when ten years and half ten years We man and wife had been, Her age came up as near to mine As eight is to sixteen. Now tell me, I pray, What were our ages on the wedding-day...