The National Arithmetic ...: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, in which the Principles of Arithmetic are Explained ... Containing Also Practical Systems of Mensuration, Guaging, Geometry, and Book-keeping; Forming a Complete Merchantile Arithmetic ... |
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... Exchange , he is under par- ticular obligations to that very able work , Kelley's British Cambist , to which he has had access through the politeness and favor of the gentlemen of the Boston Atheneum . And to such as wish to go more ...
... Exchange , he is under par- ticular obligations to that very able work , Kelley's British Cambist , to which he has had access through the politeness and favor of the gentlemen of the Boston Atheneum . And to such as wish to go more ...
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... Exchange of Currencies Circulating Decimals Simple Interest Interest with Partial Payments Miscellaneous Problems in Interest Discount Commission and Brokerage Stocks Insurance and Policies Banking Barter Compound Interest Practice ...
... Exchange of Currencies Circulating Decimals Simple Interest Interest with Partial Payments Miscellaneous Problems in Interest Discount Commission and Brokerage Stocks Insurance and Policies Banking Barter Compound Interest Practice ...
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... Exchange Exchange Bills of Exchange Accepting Bills Indorsing Bills Protesting Bills Recovering Bills Inland Exchange . Par of Exchange Value of Gold Coins Astronomical Problems Geometry Mensuration of Superficies and Solids Guaging ...
... Exchange Exchange Bills of Exchange Accepting Bills Indorsing Bills Protesting Bills Recovering Bills Inland Exchange . Par of Exchange Value of Gold Coins Astronomical Problems Geometry Mensuration of Superficies and Solids Guaging ...
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... EXCHANGE OF CURRENCIES . PREVIOUS to the year 1776 , all accounts in this country were kept in pounds , shillings , pence , and farthings ; but owing to the depreciation of the currency , a dollar was estimated differ- ently in ...
... EXCHANGE OF CURRENCIES . PREVIOUS to the year 1776 , all accounts in this country were kept in pounds , shillings , pence , and farthings ; but owing to the depreciation of the currency , a dollar was estimated differ- ently in ...
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... 6d . Answer . = The decimal .225 is reduced to shillings and pence by Case IV . of Decimal Fractions . Ans . $ 261.25 . 3. Change 78 £ . 11 SECT . XXIII . ] EXCHANGE OF CURRENCIES . 121 In order, therefore, to change any of the ...
... 6d . Answer . = The decimal .225 is reduced to shillings and pence by Case IV . of Decimal Fractions . Ans . $ 261.25 . 3. Change 78 £ . 11 SECT . XXIII . ] EXCHANGE OF CURRENCIES . 121 In order, therefore, to change any of the ...
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acres amount annuity answer Balance barrel bill Boston Bought breadth broadcloth bushels casks ciphers circle circumference compound interest contain cords cube root Daniel Fox decimal diameter Divide dividend divisor dominical letter Ducat equal EXAMPLES exchange farthings federal money feet long figure flour following RULE gain gallons given number Haverhill Hence the following hogshead hundred improper fraction inches indorsement June 17 least common multiple Leger length merchant miles mixed number molasses months Multiply National Arithmetic NOTE number of terms OPERATION ounces payment pence pound cost present worth principal proportion quantity question quotient ratio received Reduce remainder repetend rix dollars rods Samuel School SECTION Septillions shillings side sold square root subtract sugar Sundries third thousand thousandths tons Undecillions United vulgar fraction weight whole numbers wine yards of cloth
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Page 144 - 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 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 number, under the period, and subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend.
Page 38 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 267 - ... above the upper deck ; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and...
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 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 105 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number...
Page 172 - Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide their product by the first, and the quotient is the answer in the same denomination to which the third is reduced. If any thing remains after division, reduce it to the next lowest denomination, and divide as before.
Page 230 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the'quotienl will be the answer.
Page 184 - Is when the several shares of stock are continued in trade an equal term of time. RULE. As the whole stock is to the whole gain or loss : so is each man's particular stock, to his particular share of the gain or loss.