Key to Adams's New ArithmeticPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1856 |
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12 rods 16 days 1st payment 2d kinds 30 oxen 3d payment 4th kind 7th payment 9 ft 9 mo 9 oz A's share acres of grass am't of premium Amount exceeding int amount of $1 Annuities ARITHMETIC bales bought his commission br.'s share bushels circumference common difference Compound Interest Compound Numbers cost cows diameter dollars EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE feet gain greatest common divisor Greek Language Hence hight horse will consume hypothenuse and perpendicular Inverse June 1st least common multiple length less than int minutes nominal value number of pounds number of terms overtake oxen multiplied premium note PRESCOTT present worth Price proportion Remainder ring rods schools sheep shingles side square miles Troy value or amount walls whole number yard yearly sum
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Page 73 - Find the last term as before, then subtract the first from it, and divide the remainder by the ratio, less 1 ; to the quotient of which add the greater, gives the sum required.
Page 73 - The first term, the last term (or the extremes) and the ratio given, to find the sum of the series. RULE. Multiply the last term by the ratio, and from the product subtract the first term ; then divide the remainder by the ratio, less by 1, and the quotient will be the sum of all the terms.
Page 85 - In any indefinitely continued division of one number by another, what is the greatest number of different remainders that can possibly arise 1 Ans. The greatest numbers of different remainders cannot exceed the number of units in the divisor less one. Ex. 11. NOTE. — The product of the sum and difference of two numbers Is equal to the difference of their squares. Ex. 28. NOTE. — From half of the sum of the three sides of a triangle, subtract each side severally. Then multiply the half sum and...
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