An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, Theoretical and Practical: With Attempts to Simplify Some of the More Difficult Parts of the Science, Particularly the Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem in Its Most General Form, [etc.]

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Hogan and Thompson, 1839

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Σελίδα 83 - В can perform a piece of work in 8 days, A and С together in 9 days, and В and С together in 10 days ; in how many days can each alone perform the same work ? Let...
Σελίδα 146 - PROBLEM I. To reduce a rational quantity to the form of a surd. RULE. Raise the quantity to a power...
Σελίδα 116 - The plate of a looking-glass is 18 inches by 12, and it is to be surrounded by a plain frame of uniform width/ having a surface equal to that of the glass.
Σελίδα 99 - The sum of the first and third of four numbers in geometrical progression is 148, and the sum of the second and fourth is 888.
Σελίδα 99 - A hare is 50 leaps before a greyhound, and takes 4 leaps to the greyhound's 3 ; but 2 of the greyhound's leaps are equal to 3 of the hare's ; how many leaps must the greyhound take, to catch the hare?
Σελίδα 75 - There is a number consisting of two digits, which is equal to four times the sum of those digits; and if 18 be added to it, the digits will be inverted. What is the number?
Σελίδα 67 - Ans. 16 and 24. 42. It is required to find a number such, that if it be increased by 7, the square root of the sum shall be equal to the square root of the number itself, and 1 more. Ans. 9.
Σελίδα 52 - An equation of the third, fourth, &c. degree, is one in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is the third, fourth, &c.
Σελίδα 114 - It is required to find two numbers, such, that their sum, product, and difference of their squares, shall be all equal.
Σελίδα 145 - The fore-wheel of a carriage makes 6 revolutions more than the hind- wheel in going 120 yards; but if the circumference of each wheel be increased one yard, it will make only 4 revolutions more than the hind-wheel in the same distance.

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