The Tutor's Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic and a Complete Question-book, to which is Added an Appendix on Circulating Decimals...T. Allman, 1832 - 208 páginas |
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... fraction . ހ A VULGAR FRACTION is to be understood in the following manner.The Numerator may be any indefinite number , which number signifies that so many parts are to be taken out of the Denominator . The Denominator is unity divided ...
... fraction . ހ A VULGAR FRACTION is to be understood in the following manner.The Numerator may be any indefinite number , which number signifies that so many parts are to be taken out of the Denominator . The Denominator is unity divided ...
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... VULGAR FRACTIONS . A FRACTION is a part or parts of an unit , and written with two figures , with a line between them as , } , } , & c . The figure above the line is called the numerator , and the under one the denominator ; which shews ...
... VULGAR FRACTIONS . A FRACTION is a part or parts of an unit , and written with two figures , with a line between them as , } , } , & c . The figure above the line is called the numerator , and the under one the denominator ; which shews ...
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... vulgar fraction to its lowest terms . RULE . Find a common measure by dividing the lower term by the upper , and that divisor by the remainder following , till nothing remain ; the last divisor is the common measure ; then divide both ...
... vulgar fraction to its lowest terms . RULE . Find a common measure by dividing the lower term by the upper , and that divisor by the remainder following , till nothing remain ; the last divisor is the common measure ; then divide both ...
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... fraction to u single one . RULE . Multiply all the numerators for a new numerator , and all the denominators for a new denominator . Reduce the new fraction ... Fractions of one Denomination to another of Reduction of Vulgar Fractions . 101.
... fraction to u single one . RULE . Multiply all the numerators for a new numerator , and all the denominators for a new denominator . Reduce the new fraction ... Fractions of one Denomination to another of Reduction of Vulgar Fractions . 101.
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... Fraction . RULE . As the numerator of the given fraction is to its deno- minator : so is the numerator of its intended fraction : to its de- nominator . EXAMPLES . 39. Reduce to a fraction of ... fraction 102 Reduction of Vulgar Fractions .
... Fraction . RULE . As the numerator of the given fraction is to its deno- minator : so is the numerator of its intended fraction : to its de- nominator . EXAMPLES . 39. Reduce to a fraction of ... fraction 102 Reduction of Vulgar Fractions .
Términos y frases comunes
acres amount annuity annum answer barrels Bought bushel circle circumference compound interest crowns cube root debt decimal denominator desire to know diameter discount ditto Divide dividend divisor dozen ells equal EXAMPLES Facit farthings feet 6 inches figure Flemish fourth Fucit gain gallons gentleman given number given to find gross guilders guineas half half crowns half-yearly hogsheads hundred improper fraction Integer London lowest terms MEASURE miles milrea moidores Multiplicand Multiply neat weight Note number of days number of terms ounce oxen paid payable pence pension piece pound sterling present payment present worth proper quantity proportion put to interest quarters quotient rate per cent rebate Reduce remainder repetend shews shillings single fraction sold square root subtract subtrahend Table tare third tret TROY WEIGHT vulgar fraction whole number wine yards cost yards of cloth yearly rent
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Página 98 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new numerator, and place it over the denominator. 1. Reduce 127T^ to an improper fraction.
Página 103 - 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.
Página 156 - ... under its respective term ; observing to carry an unit for every 12, from each lower denomination to its next superior.
Página 86 - Add the several parts of the result together, and if it agrees with the given sum it is right. EXAMPLES. 1. A schoolmaster, being asked how many scholars he had, said, If I had as many, half as many, and one quarter as many more, I should have 264: how many had he?
Página 124 - RULE 1. Point every third figure of the cube given, beginning at the unit's place ; seek the greatest cube to the first point, and subtract it therefrom ; put the root in the quotient, and bring down the figures in the next point to the remainder for a RESOLVE NII.
Página 91 - I. When it is required to find how many of the first sort of coin, weight or measure, mentioned in the question, are equal to a given quantity of the last.
Página 92 - A man is to travel from Boston to a certain place in 12 days, and to go but 3 miles the first day, increasing every day by an equal excess, so that the last day's journey may be 58 miles : what is the daily increase, and how many miles distant is that place from Boston ? Ans.
Página 46 - Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third ; the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the middle term was reduced into.
Página 122 - RULE. Reduce the fraction to its lowest terms, then extract the square root of the numerator for a new numerator, and the square root of the denominator for a new denominator. If the fraction be a surd, (ie) a number whose root can never be exactly found, reduce it to a decimal, and extract the root from it.
Página 125 - To extract the Square Root of a Vulgar Fraction. RULE, Reduce the fraction to its lowest terms, then extract the square root of the numerator for a new numerator, and the square root of the denominator for a new denominator.