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 ...R. S. Davis, 1841 - 314 páginas |
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... questions , both from their nature and arrangement , are well calculated to produce an in- creased interest , and to facilitate the acquisition of a thorough practical knowl- edge of this science . I have introduced it into my school ...
... questions , both from their nature and arrangement , are well calculated to produce an in- creased interest , and to facilitate the acquisition of a thorough practical knowl- edge of this science . I have introduced it into my school ...
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... questions by , but should form all his rules himself , by mere induction . This plan might do very well , could it be carried into effect . But , if the experience of the author has been of any service to him , one thing , it has taught ...
... questions by , but should form all his rules himself , by mere induction . This plan might do very well , could it be carried into effect . But , if the experience of the author has been of any service to him , one thing , it has taught ...
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... question he performs . At least he should be required to do this , till he has proved himself perfectly familiar ... questions with greater ease . In preparing this work , the author has consulted most of the standard writers on the ...
... question he performs . At least he should be required to do this , till he has proved himself perfectly familiar ... questions with greater ease . In preparing this work , the author has consulted most of the standard writers on the ...
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... 1836 . B GREENLEAF . A Key , containing the operation of the more difficult questions is now published for the use of teachers only . Numeration Addition Subtraction Multiplication INDEX . Division Tables of Money 1 * ADVERTISEMENT ...
... 1836 . B GREENLEAF . A Key , containing the operation of the more difficult questions is now published for the use of teachers only . Numeration Addition Subtraction Multiplication INDEX . Division Tables of Money 1 * ADVERTISEMENT ...
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... Mechanical Powers 267 271 Specific Gravity Miscellaneous Questions Book - keeping by Single Entry Book - keeping by Double Entry Mercantile Forms 276 • 279 285 300 814 CHARACTERS USED IN THIS WORK . $ Contraction , for INDEX . vii.
... Mechanical Powers 267 271 Specific Gravity Miscellaneous Questions Book - keeping by Single Entry Book - keeping by Double Entry Mercantile Forms 276 • 279 285 300 814 CHARACTERS USED IN THIS WORK . $ Contraction , for INDEX . vii.
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 105 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.