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 SchoolsJoseph Crukshank, sold also by B.B. Hopkins & Company Philadelphia, D. Mallory & Company Boston, Lyman, Mallory & Company Portland, D.W. Farrand & Green, Albany, Ph. H. Nicklin & Company Baltimore, Patterson & Hopkins, Pittsburgh, 1810 - Arithmetic - 210 pages |
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acct acres amount annum ansaver answer 20 answer neat Application bales barter Bought breadth bushels C.wt cash in full casks ciphers compound containing cost cube-root decimal denominator ditto Divide dividend divisor dollars dols dozen drams DUODECIMALS Edward Young ell English ells Flemish equal EXAMPLES exchange facit feet figures Flemish folio gain gallons George Robson given number given quantity gross hogsheads hundred weight improper fraction inches integer interest James Dixon Ledger lowest terms merchant miles moidores months Multiply neat weight Note ounces pence Pennsylvania currency perches persons Peter Thomson pieces pint pounds principal Proof quarts quotient rate per cent ready money Reduce remainder Richard Barber root Rule of Three shalloon shillings sold square square-root sterling subtract sugar Sundries Suppose tare Thomas Lawson trett VULGAR FRACTIONS whole numbers wine worth yards of cloth
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