A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic, [etc.].

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Otis, Broaders & Company, 1841 - 340 páginas
 

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Página 327 - At sixty days sight of this my first of exchange, second and third of the same tenor and date not paid, pay to James Parke or order, eleven thousand francs, with or without further advice from me.
Página 155 - 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...
Página 155 - But if any payment be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year : add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as...
Página 164 - Multiply each debt by the time to elapse before it is due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the debts.
Página 266 - There are five things in arithmetical progression, any three of which being given, the other two may be found : — 1st. The first term. 2d. The last term. 3d. The number of terms. 4th. The common difference. 5th. The sum of all the terms.
Página 65 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the given numerator.
Página 337 - If four magnitudes are in proportion, the product of the two extremes is equal to the product of the two means.
Página 69 - ... multiply each numerator by all the denominators, except its own, for a new numerator, and under it write the common denominator.
Página 207 - The area of a triangle is equal to half the product of its base by its altitude.
Página 156 - ... on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year; add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as above.

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