The American Preceptor's Assistant: Containing a System of Practical ArithmeticT. L. Plowman, 1801 - 222 páginas |
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16 days acres adventured aliquot American Preceptor's amount annuity Answer Arithmetic Arithmetical Progression bond Bought bushels casks cent per annum compound interest compound multiplication containing cube root decimal denomination diameter difference Divide dividend divisor dollars dolls dols Doubloons ell English English guineas equal EXAMPLES Facit farthings Federal money feet French guinea gallons Geometrical Progression given number given sum half yearly hhds improper fraction inches integers inverse length less linen merchant miles millions mills Moidores months Mult multiply neat weight ounce payment pence Pennsylvania currency persons pieces pounds PRACTICAL QUESTIONS present worth prime cost principal PROOF purchase quantity query quotient rate given rate per cent Reduce remainder rule of three shillings sold square root sterling subtract sugar tare thence trett vessel VULGAR FRACTIONS whole numbers wine yards of cloth
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Página 159 - Involve the root to the next inferior power to that which is given, and multiply, it by the number denoting the given power, for a divisor.
Página 109 - As the whole sum of the products is to the whole gain or loss, so is each man's particular product to his particular share of the loss or gain.* EXAMPLES.
Página 165 - In any continued geometrical progression, the product of the two extremes is equal to the product of any two means that are equally distant from them, or equal to the square of the middle term when there is an uneven number of terms.
Página 95 - ... 2. What principal at interest for 10 years, at 6 per cent, per annum, will amount to 1300L.?
Página 222 - When first the marriage knot was ty'd Between my wife and me ; My age was to that of my bride, As three times three to three ; But now when ten and half ten years, We man and wife have been, Her age to mine exactly bears As eight is to sixteen ; Now tell, I pray, from what I've said, What were our ages when we wed...
Página 117 - Thirty days after sight of this my first of exchange, second and third of like tenor and date not paid, pay to Samuel Sims, or order, four hundred and fifty-two pounds, ten shillings and sixpence sterling, value received, which place to account of Peter Simpson.
Página 103 - What difference is there between the interest of 5Q(H. at 5 per cent. for 12 years, and the discount of the same sum, at the same rate, and for the same time ? Jlns.
Página 64 - If a staff 4 feet long cast a shade (on level ground) 7 feet long, what is the height of a steeple whose shade at the same time is 198 feet ? Ans.
Página 151 - If the errors be alike, ie both too much, or both too little, take their difference for a divisor, and the difference of the products for a dividend: but if the errors be unlike, take their sum for a divisor, and the sum of the products for a dividend.
Página 69 - If 10 bushels of oats be sufficient for 18 horses 20 days, how many bushels will serve 60 horses 36 days ? Ans.