The National Arithmetic ...: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, in which the Principles of Arithmetic are Explained ... Containing Also Practical Systems of Mensuration, Guaging, Geometry, and Book-keeping; Forming a Complete Merchantile Arithmetic ...R. S. Davis, 1841 - 314 Seiten |
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... body , with six equal sides . A number is said to be cubed , when it is multiplied into its square . To extract the cube root , is to find a number , which , multi- plied into its square , will produce the given number . RULE . 1 ...
... body , with six equal sides . A number is said to be cubed , when it is multiplied into its square . To extract the cube root , is to find a number , which , multi- plied into its square , will produce the given number . RULE . 1 ...
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... bodies , are to each other , as the cubes of their diameter , or homologus sides . 17. If a ball , 3 inches in diameter , weigh 4 pounds , what will be the weight of a ball that is 6 inches in diameter ? Ans . 32 lbs . 18. If a cube of ...
... bodies , are to each other , as the cubes of their diameter , or homologus sides . 17. If a ball , 3 inches in diameter , weigh 4 pounds , what will be the weight of a ball that is 6 inches in diameter ? Ans . 32 lbs . 18. If a cube of ...
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... bodies that compose the solar system . SECTION LVII . INFINITE SERIES . AN INFINITE SERIES is such , as being continued , would run on ad infinitum ; but the nature of its progression is such , that by having a few of its terms given ...
... bodies that compose the solar system . SECTION LVII . INFINITE SERIES . AN INFINITE SERIES is such , as being continued , would run on ad infinitum ; but the nature of its progression is such , that by having a few of its terms given ...
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... body , and his body weighs as much as his head and tail . weight of the fish . Required the Ans . 72lbs . these he can 10. A certain grocer has only 5 weights ; with weigh any quantity , from 1 pound to 121 pounds . Required the weights ...
... body , and his body weighs as much as his head and tail . weight of the fish . Required the Ans . 72lbs . these he can 10. A certain grocer has only 5 weights ; with weigh any quantity , from 1 pound to 121 pounds . Required the weights ...
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... body of the bill with the word accepted . When two or more persons are in partnership , the accept- ance of one binds all the others , if the bill concerns their joint trade ; but if it should be made known to the person , who re ...
... body of the bill with the word accepted . When two or more persons are in partnership , the accept- ance of one binds all the others , if the bill concerns their joint trade ; but if it should be made known to the person , who re ...
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acres amount annuity answer Balance barrel bill Boston Bought breadth broadcloth bushels casks ciphers circle circumference compound interest contain cords cube root Daniel Fox decimal diameter Divide dividend divisor dominical letter Ducat equal EXAMPLES exchange farthings federal money feet long figure flour following RULE gain gallons given number Haverhill Hence the following hogshead hundred improper fraction inches indorsement June 17 least common multiple Leger length merchant miles mixed number molasses months Multiply National Arithmetic NOTE number of terms OPERATION ounces payment pence pound cost present worth principal proportion quantity question quotient ratio received Reduce remainder repetend rix dollars rods Samuel School SECTION Septillions shillings side sold square root subtract sugar Sundries third thousand thousandths tons Undecillions United vulgar fraction weight whole numbers wine yards of cloth
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Seite 144 - 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 to the next payment, and then deduct the payment as above ; and, in like manner, from one payment to another, till all the payments are absorbed ; provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Seite 200 - Find the greatest square number in the first, or left hand period' place the root of it at the right hand of the given number, (after the manner of a quotient in division) for the first figure of the root, and the square number, under the period, and subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend.
Seite 38 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Seite 267 - ... above the upper deck ; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and...
Seite 141 - COMPUTE the interest on the principal sum, from the time when the interest commenced to the first time when a payment was made, which exceeds either alone or in conjunction with the preceding payments (if any) the interest at that time due: add that interest to the principal, and from the sum subtract the payment made at that time, together with the preceding payments (if any) and the remainder forms a new principal ; on which, compute and subtract the interest, as upon the first principal: and proceed...
Seite 29 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Seite 105 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number...
Seite 172 - Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide their product by the first, and the quotient is the answer in the same denomination to which the third is reduced. If any thing remains after division, reduce it to the next lowest denomination, and divide as before.
Seite 230 - If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the'quotienl will be the answer.
Seite 184 - Is when the several shares of stock are continued in trade an equal term of time. RULE. As the whole stock is to the whole gain or loss : so is each man's particular stock, to his particular share of the gain or loss.