CASE IV. Having the price of any number of yards, &c. to find the price of 1 yard: Divide the price by the quantity, beginning at the highest denomination, and, if any thing remain, reduce it into the next, and every inferiour denomination, and, at each reduction, divide as before, remembering each time, to add the odd shillings, pence, &c. if there be any, and you will have the value of unity required. 1 Note. If there be, or of a yard, pound, &c. multiply both the price and quantity by 4, and then proceed as above directed; or, in federal money, work by decimals. Produces 382 for a divisor. Product £.66 14 3 for a dividend. £.25 13s. 9d S 6s. 5 d. 2 {D.1 8c. S what is it per yd.? Ans. 15s. 54d. 1 {D.2. 57c. 5m. 3. If 334 yards of baize cost D.85 63c. 2m.S Note. This proves the 3d and 4th Cases in Multiplication. 9.5 } PRACTICAL 3. Divide D.14 38c 9m. £. 12 19s. D.43 16c. 7m. £. 39 12s. 5d. D. 132 7c. } = a woman's share. among 4 men, 6 women, and 9 boys: Give each man double to a woman, and each woman double to a boy. Answer, 4. Divide 5 guineas among 8 men :-Give A 8d. more than B, and B 8d. more than C, &c. Ans. H's share 15s. 2d. REDUCTION OF COINS. = RULES for reducing the Federal Coin, and the currencies of the several United States; also English, Irish, Canada, Nova-Scotia, Livres Tournois and Spanish milled Dollars, each to the par of all the others. I. To reduce New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Ifland, Connecticut, and Virginia currency: 1. To Federal Money. Rule. Reduce the shillings, pence and farthings, to decimals, by Inspection (Case 3d, Dec. Frac) divide the whole by 3, putting the comma one figure further to the right hand in the quotient, than in the pounds of the dividend, and the quotient will be the answer in dollars, cents and mills. 1. Reduce .349 19s. 1d. to dollars. £.75 Answer. 6. To Irish Money. Rule.-Multiply the NewHampshire, &c. sum, by 13, and divide the product by 16. Reduce 100 New-Hampshire, &c. to Irish Money. 100 Ans. 1750 liv. 8)14000 Ans. 1750 livres. 1d.=1sou. 54den is.=17&sous. 117 livres. II. To reduce Federal Money to New- 4×3+ the given fum. dollars only, cut off 1 figure, if of cents also, cut off 3, and if of mills, 4 figures at the right hand; then reduce the figures so cut off to farthings each time cutting off as at first and the left hand figures are pounds, shillings, &c Or, reduce them by inspection. 1. Reduce 1166dolls. 51c. 3m. to New England currency. D cm. 1166.51 3 3 £349-953 9 20 s.19.0780 12 936 Id. nearly. = double of 9. 19s Id. Ans. 2. Reduce 45 dollars. 45 3 £.13.5 20 s.10.0 3. Reduce |