The scholar's guide to arithmetic; or, A complete exercise-book1851 |
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aliquot amount annuity annum answer required arithmetical arithmetical mean arithmetical series avoirdupois bushels carats cent ciphers cloth lettered common difference compound interest cube root decimal denotes digits discount ditto Divide dividend divisible Dominical letter edition ells English epact equal equivalent EXAMPLES exchange farthings figures Find Easter Sunday Flemish per pound gallons geometrical geometrical progression given number guineas Hence inches integer last term method milreis mixed number moidore months multiplicand Multiply neat weight number of combinations number of terms number of things odd number Old Style payment pence places pound sterling present worth prime number proportion quantities quotient ratio Reduce remainder repetend required to find rix-dollar shillings simple interest square number square root subtract Take taken tare Trial divisor TROY WEIGHT True divisor tuns vulgar fraction whence whole number yards
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Página 25 - SQUARE MEASURE 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30| square yards = 1 square rod (sq. rd.) 160 square rods = 1 acre (A.) 640 acres = 1 square mile (sq.
Página 53 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Página 152 - 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.
Página 147 - RULE.* — Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required.
Página 159 - RULE. Find an answer, as before, by linking ; then say, As the sum of the quantities, or differences, thus determined, is to the given quantity, so is each ingredient found by linking, to the required quantity of each.
Página 58 - A wall that is to be built to the height of 27 feet, was raised 9 feet by 12 men in 6 days ; how many men must be employed to finish the wall in 4 days at the same rate of working ? If 402.
Página 82 - To reduce an improper fraction to its equivalent whole or mixed number. RULE. — Divide the numerator by the denominator, and the quotient will be the whole or mixed number sought.
Página 84 - To reduce fractions to a common denominator. RULE. Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Página 100 - Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand in the quotient point off as many figures for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.