A Treatise on ArithmeticW.J. Gage & Company, 1877 - 345 Seiten |
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25 per cent acres amount annum bill bushels cents per pound Compound Interest contained cube root cubic debt Decimal Fraction denominator Divide dividend division Divisor dollar equal Examination Papers Examples exchange factors farthings feet figures Find the difference find the square Find the value florins following rule four francs gain gallon given number Hence Highest Common Factor horses hundred inches income integer invest length measure metres miles millions minutes months multiply paid payment pence piece places of decimals present worth Principal proceed profit proportion quantity Quotient rate of interest ratio receive recurring decimal Reduce remainder result Rix-Dollar sell share shillings simple interest Simplify sold square root subtract sum of money thousand Toronto Troy weight units Vulgar Fraction weight whole number yards
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Seite 53 - If the numerator and denominator of a fraction be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered.
Seite 52 - A PROPER FRACTION is one in which the numerator is less than the denominator. The value of every proper fraction is less than 1, (Art. 94). The following are proper fractions : 1 1 1 .3 3. £ 9 jS A 2...
Seite 249 - At a siege it was found that a certain length of trench could be dug by the soldiers and navvies in 4 days, but that when only half the navvies were present it required 7 days to dig the same length of trench. What proportion of the work was done by the soldiers?
Seite 279 - A and B can do a piece of work in 6 days ; A...
Seite 240 - Petersburg 920 roubles, which must be remitted through Paris. He pays the requisite sum to his broker, at a time when the exchange between London and Paris is 25-15 francs for £1, and between Paris and St.
Seite 159 - ... 60. If a man travel 150 miles in 5 days, when the days are 12 hours long, in how many days of 10 hours each will he travel 500 miles?
Seite 244 - PROPORTION when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the second to the third.
Seite 288 - A person invests £1365 in the 3 per cents. at 91 ; he sells out £1000 stock when they have risen to 93J, and the remainder when they have fallen to 85. How much does he gain or lose by the transaction ? 12.
Seite 280 - The content of a cistern is the sum of two cubes whose edges are 10 inches and 2 inches, and the area of its base is the difference of two squares whose sides are 1¿ and If feet.
Seite 233 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid) pay...