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A's stock a+b+c acres Adding Arith assume B's gain breadth bushels of wheat Cancelling cent Clearing of fractions coefficients Collecting terms common difference Comp Completing the sq Completing the square contains cubic denominator divisor equation errors Evolving Expanding feet find the values Given greatest common divisor Greenleaf's Algebra Hence A's Hence the larger Hence the numbers Hence the values High School hour-hand hundred twenty-seven inches Involving larger number length less number Let x m+n+p Mathematics miles minus value minute-hand Multiplying extremes National Arithmetic number of terms oxen Principal pupil Putting the value quantity question reap RECOMMENDATIONS OF GREENLEAF'S Reducing terms Required the sum second condition Second Supposition side smaller square rods Substituting for y substituting these values SURD Take teachers text-book tower Uniting terms values of x y its value
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Page 278 - ... great satisfaction of teachers using it, it occupies the ground commonly given very inconveniently to two different books. Its several demonstrations, especially those connected with the roots, the method of solving cubic equations by completing the square, and the very complete Table of Logarithms at the end of the volume, are among its useful distinctive features. The book has now been fully tested in the school-room, and the uniform testimony of teachers, who have made the trial, is, that...
Page 181 - ... in 9 weeks, how many oxen will eat 24 acres in 18 weeks, the grass being at first equal on every acre, and growing uniformly ? This example is taken from Newton's Universal Arithmetic.
Page 277 - The RULES, DEFINITIONS, and ILLUSTRATIONS, are expressed in language, simple, clear, concise, and accurate. The PROBLEMS are of a practical nature, tending to...
Page 244 - Hence, when the extremes and number of terms are given, to find the common difference, — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.