The Scholar's Arithmetic: Or, Federal Accountant ... The Whole in a Form and Method Altogether New, for the Ease of the Master and the Greater Progress of the Scholar

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John Prentiss, 1824 - Arithmetic - 224 pages
 

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Page 216 - God for the same do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say...
Page 219 - RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator: then reduce the new fraction to its lowest terms.
Page 215 - I am lawfully seized in fee simple of the afore-granted premises ; that they are free from all incumbrances, that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said...
Page 212 - Brown, his executors, administrators, or assigns: for which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, and every of them, firmly by these presents.
Page 212 - CD, his heirs, executors, or administrators, do and shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, unto the...
Page 201 - RULE.* — Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required.
Page 158 - ... hand of the, given number, (after the manner of a quotient in division,) for the first figure of the root, and the square number under the period, and subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often tlie divisor is contained in the dividend...
Page 70 - ... infinite number .of figures, will not equal ,9. ADDITION OF DECIMALS. RULE. 1. Place the numbers, whether mixed or pure decimals, under each other, according to the value of their places. 2. Find their sum as in whole numbers, and point off so many places for the decimals, as are equal to the greatest number of decimal parts in any of the given numbers.
Page 216 - Rule oflfcree, if the said apprentice be capable to learn, and shall well and faithfully find and provide for the said apprentice, good and sufficient meat, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessaries fit and convenient for such an apprentice, during the term aforesaid, and at the expiration thereof, shall give unto the said apprentice, two suits of wearing apparel, one suitable for the Lord's day, and the other for working; days.
Page 167 - Subtract the cube thus found from the said period, and to the remainder bring down the next period, and call this the dividend.

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