The Schoolmaster's Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic Both Practical and Theoretical : in Five Parts ... |
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Page 25 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day...
Page 8 - Decedents," and to repeal said original sections, -and to repeal sections one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven...
Page 166 - H 2400 dollars, of which 480 dollars are to be paid at present, 960 dollars at 5 months, and the rest at 10 months, but they agree to make one payment of the whole, and wish to know the time.
Page 103 - If 7 men can reap 84 acres of wheat in 12 days ; how many men can reap 100 acres in 5 days ? If 84.-J.
Page 152 - ... power, and call it the divisor. 5. Find a quotient figure by common division, and annex it to the root ; then involve the whole root into the given power, and call that the subtrahend. 6.
Page 103 - ... but if the blank fall under the first or second term, the proportion is inverse ; then multiply the third and fourth terms together for a divisor, and the other three for a dividend, and the quotient will be the answer. EXAMPLES.
Page 124 - To reduce a fraction of one denomination to the fraction of another, but less, retaining the same value. RULE. — Multiply the given numerator by the parts of the denominations between it and that denomination you would reduce it to, for a new numerator, which place over the given denominator : Or, only invert the parts contained in the integer, and make of them a compound fraction as before ; then reduce it to a simple one.
Page 103 - If a man travel 240 miles in 12 days, when the days are 12 hours long, in how many days will he travel 720 miles, when the days are 16 hours long? Ans. 27 days.
Page 104 - When it is required to find how many of the last sort of coin, weight or measure, mentioned in the question, are equal to a given quantity of the first, -v , RULE.
Page 73 - Divide the interest last found by the time, and the quotient will be the rate per cent.