The New Federal Calculator: Or, Scholar's Assistant: Containing the Most Concise and Accurate Rules for Performing the Operations in Common Arithmetic; Together with Numerous Examples Under Each of the Rules, Varied So as to Make Them Conformable to Almost Every Kind of Business ...J. Grigg, 1830 - 180 Seiten |
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100 dollars 75 cents acres aliquot amount annuity annum Arithmetical Progression barrels Bought Bring cents per bushel cents per cwt cents per lb cents per yard ciphers compound interest cube root decimal point discount Divide dividend divisor dollars 50 cents dollars 75 dollars or pounds dollars per cent dols DRY MEASURE DUODECIMALS Examples farthings Federal money feet gallons given number given price given quantity given sum given to find gross higher denominations hogsheads of sugar improper fraction lars last term less miles mixed number multiplicand multiplication table neat weight ounces paid payments pence piece pints pound Sterling present worth principal proceed quarters Questions quotient rate per cent receive Reduce remainder Repeat the rule rule for performing Rule of Three shillings sold square root Sterling subtract tare tare and tret third term tret TROY WEIGHT vulgar fraction whole number yards of cloth
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Seite 126 - Now .} of f- is a compound fraction, whose value is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Seite 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Seite 73 - ... multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first for the answer, which will always be of the same denomination as ftie third term.
Seite 125 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Seite 36 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal.) 31| gallons = 1 barrel (bbl.) 2 barrels...
Seite 157 - Multiply the sum of the two extremes by the number of terms, and half the product will be the sum of all the terms.
Seite 132 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for. a new denominator.
Seite 178 - What difference is there between the interest of 500Z. at 5 per cent, for 12 years, and the discount of the same sum at the same rate, and for the same time ? Ans.
Seite 24 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Seite 143 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.