...the difference of the errors. 5. — But if the errors are unlike, ie one plus and the other minus, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors for the required answer. ty If either of the supposed numbers produce the given result, you haw hit...

...the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, &c." The advantage of this form of the rule is the ease with which it disposes of the signs of the...

...the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, &c." The advantage of this form of the rule is the ease with which it disposes of the signs of the...

...difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. But if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, for the answer. •What number is that, which, heing multiplied by 6, the product increased by 18,...

...will be the true number or anewei'. I But if th° errors are one too great and the other too] little, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the product will be the true number or answer. Question t . What is Position ? How many kinds of Position...

...same direction, divide the difference of these products by the difference of the errors, otherwise divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors ; — the quotient is a corrected position. RULE II. — Multiply the first error by the difference...

...difference of the errors, the quotient is the answer ; but when one of the signs is + and the other — , divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient is the answer. EXAMPLE. How many guineas and half-crowns will pay a bill of £72, the number of pieces...

...same direction, divide the difference of these products by the difference of the errors, otherwise divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors ; — the quotient is a corrected position. KULE II. — Multiply the first error by the difference...

...If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; or, if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products...the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the correct answer. EXAMPLES. 1. A man is 40 years of age and his son is 8 years of age : in how many years...

...Now, whenever the correction of the errors is made by respective addition awrf subtraction, you must divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors. 4. 2(?x — 10) _ ^ _ 50 — x 3 2 -8 = 23 — 31 Ny/ 4 48 = 17 -f- 31 /\ 16 x = 3i X 16 -r 31 X 4...