The American Tutor's Assistant Revised, Or, A Compendious System of Practical Arithmetic: Containing the Several Rules of that Useful Science, Concisely Defined, Methodically Arranged, and Fully Exemplified : the Whole Particularly Adapted to the Easy and Regular Instruction of Youth in Our American Schools |
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A M P L E acres amount annum answer Application Bought bushels C.wt carried cash in full cent common compound containing cost currency decimal denominator difference Divide dividend divisor dollars dols double dozen ells English equal EXAMPLES exchange facit feet figures folio four fraction gain gallons given greater gross half hundred weight inches integer interest James Ledger length less Mary measure merchant miles months Multiply neat Note ounces paid pence Pennsylvania persons pieces pounds principal Proof proportion quantity quarters quotient received Reduce remainder root RULE share shillings simple single sold square sterling Subtract sugar Sundries Suppose tare third Thomas thousand units weeks weight whole wide wine worth yards
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Page 157 - 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.
Page 129 - 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 175 - ... of the breadth; multiply the remainder by the breadth, and the product by the depth...
Page 175 - ... ^three-fifths of the breadth, and take the depth from the under side of the deck plank to the ceiling in the hold, then multiply and divide as aforesaid, and the quotient shall be deemed the tonnage.
Page 157 - New-London to a certain place in 9 days, and to go but 3 miles the first day, increasing every day by an equal excess, so that the last day's journey may be 43 miles: Required the daily increase, and the length of the whole journey 1 Ans.
Page 29 - And every other thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 61 - ... then, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term...
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| Title | The American Tutor's Assistant Revised, Or, A Compendious System of Practical Arithmetic: Containing the Several Rules of that Useful Science, Concisely Defined, Methodically Arranged, and Fully Exemplified : the Whole Particularly Adapted to the Easy and Regular Instruction of Youth in Our ... |
| Author | Zachariah Jess |
| Publisher | Joseph Crukshank, 1813 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 210 pages |
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