Welch's Improved American Arithmetic: Adapted to the Currency of the United States : to which is Added a Concise Treatise on the Mensuration of Planes and Solids |
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... proceed through all the columns to the last ; and in the last column observe ( 6 ) to set down the whole sum . PROOF .- ( 7 ) Begin at the top , add downwards , carry as before , and if the work is right , the sum will be the same as it ...
... proceed through all the columns to the last ; and in the last column observe ( 6 ) to set down the whole sum . PROOF .- ( 7 ) Begin at the top , add downwards , carry as before , and if the work is right , the sum will be the same as it ...
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... proceed through the whole . PROOF . ( 7 ) Add the remainder and lower line together , carry as in Simple Addition , and if the work be right it will be like the upper line . Questions . - 1 . What does Simple Subtraction teach ? -2 ...
... proceed through the whole . PROOF . ( 7 ) Add the remainder and lower line together , carry as in Simple Addition , and if the work be right it will be like the upper line . Questions . - 1 . What does Simple Subtraction teach ? -2 ...
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... proceed ( 7 ) until all the figures of the dividend are brought down ; if at any time when you have brought down a figure the sum is still less than the di- visor , ( 8 ) a cypher must be placed in the quotient , and another figure must ...
... proceed ( 7 ) until all the figures of the dividend are brought down ; if at any time when you have brought down a figure the sum is still less than the di- visor , ( 8 ) a cypher must be placed in the quotient , and another figure must ...
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... proceed through the whole , and the quotient will stand ( 5 ) under the dividend . Questions . - 1 . What is Short Division ? -2 . What is the 1st step in the Rule of Short Division ? -3 . What is the 2nd step ? 4. What is the 3d2-5 ...
... proceed through the whole , and the quotient will stand ( 5 ) under the dividend . Questions . - 1 . What is Short Division ? -2 . What is the 1st step in the Rule of Short Division ? -3 . What is the 2nd step ? 4. What is the 3d2-5 ...
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... proceed as before through all the denom inations , observing ( 7 ) to set down the whole sum of the last denomination . Questions . - 1 . What does Compound Addition teach ? -2 . How are the numbers to be placed in order to add ? -3 ...
... proceed as before through all the denom inations , observing ( 7 ) to set down the whole sum of the last denomination . Questions . - 1 . What does Compound Addition teach ? -2 . How are the numbers to be placed in order to add ? -3 ...
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Page 81 - 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 64 - 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.
Page 214 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 84 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 109 - RULE.—Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the equated time.* • , EXAMPLES.
Page 92 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for. a new denominator.
Page 193 - RULE. — To the square of the bung diameter add the square of the head diameter ; multiply the sum by the length, and the product by .0014 for ale gallons, or by .0017 for wine gallons.
Page 149 - PROBLEM II. The first term, the last term, and the number of terms given, to find the common difference. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1 , and the quotient will be the common diffcrenct.
Page 204 - There is an island 50 miles in circumference, and three men start together to travel the same way about it ; A goes 7 miles per day, B 8, and C 9 ; when will they all come together again, and how far will they travel ? Ans.
Page 163 - As 7 is to 22, so is the diameter to the circumference : or, as 22 is to 7, so is the circumference to the diameter.