The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical ArithmeticM'Carty & Davis, 1824 - 198 páginas |
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14 yards 2qrs 3qrs acres aliquot amount annuity annum answer Bought Bring bushels casks cent to cents cents per lb ciphers common difference compound interest contained cube root decimal dividend divisor dollars per cent dols drams DRY MEASURE English ells EXAMPLES Facit farthings Federal Money fourths furlongs gain gallons given number given sum hand figure hogsheads hundred weight improper fraction inches merchant miles millions mixed number months Multiply nails neat weight Note number of terms Oqrs ounces paid pecks pence Pennsylvania currency penny pennyweights pieces pint pounds present worth principal PROOF quarters quarts quotient rate per cent Reduce remainder Result roods Rule of Three shillings sold square root sterling Subtract sum or quantity TABLE tare thousand TROY WEIGHT tuns VULGAR FRACTIONS whole number yards cost yards of cloth yards of linen yards of muslin
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Página 172 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
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Página 99 - RULE.* Multiply the principal by the 'rate per cent, and divide the product by 100: the quotient will be the interest for 1 year.
Página 157 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend.
Página 149 - ... in the first figures of the dividend as usual. Let each remainder be a new dividend ; and for every such dividend, leave out one figure to the right hand of the divisor, remembering to carry for the increase of the figures cut off, as in contracted multiplication. ' Note. — When there are not so many figures in the divi...