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, &c. &c. ... |
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alſo Amount Amſterdam Annuity Annum Anſwer Area Baſe Buſhels Cafe Copecs coſt Crown Cube Root Days Decimal Denominator Diameter Difference Diſtance ditto Divide Dividend Divifor Dominical Letter dwts Ells Engliſh equal Equation Eſtate EXAMPLES Exchange faid Farthings Feet Figure firſt Flemish folid Fraction fubtract Gain Gallons Genoa give given Number Groſs Guilders Guineas Half hhds Horſe improper Fraction Inches Intereſt juſt laſt Length leſs London Loſs meaſures Miles Moidores Months moſt Multiplicand Multiply muſt Number of Terms obſerve Ounces paid payable Payment Pence Perſon Piece Place Pounds preſent Worth Price Product propoſed Quantity Queſtion Quotient raiſed Rate per Cent ready Money Reduce Remainder Repetend reſpective reſt RULE ſame ſecond ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe Shillings ſhould Side Solidity ſquare Square Root ſtands Sterling Stock ſuch Suppoſe THEOREM theſe thoſe Uſe Value VULGAR FRACTIONS Weight whoſe Yards
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Page 164 - 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 63 - Prob. 30. Divide the number a into two such parts, that if the first is multiplied by m, and the second by n, the sum of the products shall be b.
Page 175 - To be 100 feet from th' top to th' ground ; Against the wall a ladder stood upright, Of the same length the castle was in height : •A. waggish youngster did the ladder slide (The bottom of it) 10 feet from the side ; ' Now I would know how far the top did fall, By pulling out the ladder from the wall t A 6 ini nearly 26.
Page 65 - ... 2. If the velocities of these bodies be equal, their forces will be directly as the quantities of matter contained in them, that is, as their weights. 3. If both the quantities of matter and the velocities be unequal, the forces, with which the bodies are moved, will be in a proportion compounded of their quantities of matter and velocities.
Page 126 - When first the marriage knot was tied Betwixt my wife and me, My age did hers as far exceed As three times three does three ; , But when ten years and half ten years We man and wife had been, Her age came up as near to mine As eight is to sixteen. Now tell me, I pray, What were our ages on the wedding-day...
Page 45 - ... number, if any, which was in this denomination before, then divide the sum as usual, and so on, till the whole is finished.
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Page 203 - Divide the given sum by the amount of $1 for the given time and rate, and the quotient will be the PRESENT WORTH. from the given sum subtract the present worth, and the remainder will be Hie DISCOUKT.