The Tutor's Guide, Being a Complete System of Arithmetic: With Various Branches in the Mathematics ... to which is Added, an Appendix, Containing Different Forms of Acquittances, Bills of Exchange Etcetera ... |
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Acres Amount Annuity Annum Answer Area Avoirdupois Bought Bushels Ciphers Circumference Compound cost Crown Cube Root Decimal demand Denominator Diameter ditto Divide Dividend Divisor Dominical Letter Dozen dwts equal Equation EXAMPLES Exchange Exercise at Leisure Farthings Feet Figure Flemish Fraction Frustum gain Gallons given Number given Quantity Gross Guineas Half hhds Hundred improper Fraction Inches Integer Interest Leisure Hours Length London Maravedies Measure Miles Moidores Months Multiplicand Number of Days Number of Terms Ounces paid payable Payment Pence Person Piece Piece of Eight Pints Place Pounds Pounds Sterling Pray present Worth Price Principal Product Proportion Quarters Quere QUESTIONS for Exercise Quotient Rate per Cent ready Money received Reduce Remainder Rent Repetend RULE Shillings Side sold Solidity Square Root Sterling Stock subtract Sugar Tare THEOREM third Value VULGAR FRACTIONS Weight whole Number Wine Yards
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Page 73 - ... dollars. How many days did he work, and how many days was he idle ? Ans.
Page 122 - There is a fish whose head is 6 inches long, and the tail is as long as the head and half the body, and the body is as long as the head and tail ; what is the length of the whole fish?
Page 161 - Opposite to each dividend, on the left hand, place such a number for a divisor, as will bring it to the next superior denomination, and draw a line between them.
Page 137 - Now .} of f- is a compound fraction, whose value is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 244 - Multiply the circumference of the base by the slant height or length of the side, and half the product 'will be the surface.
Page 168 - Reduce the fraction to its lowest terms, then extract the square root of the numerator for a new numerator, and the square root of the denominator for a new denominator.
Page 91 - Ağ the Amount of 100/ at the Rate and Time given : is to 100/ : : so is the Amount given : to the Principal required.
Page 133 - Hence, when the extremes and the number of terms are given, to find the sum of all the terms,- — Multiply £ the sum of the extremes by the number of terms, and the product will be the answer.
Page 138 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 223 - To fold the area of a Parallelogram, whether it be a Square, a Rectangle, a Rhombus, or a Rhomboides. RULE. Multiply the length by the height or perpendicular breadth, and the product will be the area.* * *DEMONSTSATION.