The Western Arithmetic: Or, Pennsylvania and Ohio Accomptant: Being a Plain Practical Treatise, with a Complete System of MensurationCook and Schoyer, 1835 - 250 páginas |
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100 dollars 18 feet 25 cents amount annuity annum answer barrels Bought breadth bushels ciphers circle circumference compound interest contained cube root cubic cubic foot Culen decimal denominator diameter difference dimes Dionysian period divide by 144 dividend divisor dollars 25 dollars 50 cents dolls dominical letter epact equal EXAMPLES feet 6 inches figure find the area foot fraction frustum furlongs gain gallons given number half hhds hogshead improper fraction inches length less measure miles mills months multiply neat weight number of terms pair perpendicular post-captains pound present worth principal proportion quantity Question quotient rate per cent Reduce remainder resolvend rods RULE semidiameter side sold solid content specific gravity square root subtract superficial content Suppose thereof thick third timber triangle triple TROY WEIGHT unit's place VULGAR FRACTIONS Wheeling whole number yards
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Página 65 - 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.
Página 109 - But if any payment be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year : add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as...
Página 153 - 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.
Página 74 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Página 127 - 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 o.
Página 206 - ... as the diameter of the axle is to the diameter of the wheel, so is the power applied to the wheel, to the weight suspended by the axle.
Página 63 - If 8 men can build a wall 20 feet long, 6 feet high and 4 feet thick, in 12 days ; in what time...
Página 141 - 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.
Página 11 - APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT 20 grains = 1 scruple. 3 scruples = 1 dram. 8 drams = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Página 111 - ... amount of the second, and so on for any number of years required. Subtract the original principal from the last amount, and the remainder will be the Compound Interest for the whole time.