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Presented to Em Astudition

ELEMENTARY TREATISE

by Dr. D. Ar d

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ALGEBRA :

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS

AND

LOGARITHMS.

BY BENJAMIN PEIRCE, A. M.,

PERKINS PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS IN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

NEW EDITION.

BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY,

the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

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FRACTIONS AND PROPORTIONS.

SECTION I. Reduction of Feactions.....

II. Addition and Subtraction of Fractions.

III. Multiplication and Division of Fractions.

IV. Proportions.

CHAPTER III.

EQUATIONS OF THE FIRST DEGREE.

SECTION I. Putting Problems into Equations. .

II. Reduction and Classification of Equations.

III. Solution of Equations of the First Degree, with one

unknown quantity.

IV. Equations of the First Degree containing two or

more unknown quantities.

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