A New, Copious and Complete System of Arithmetic: For the Use of Schools and Counting Houses, in the United States of America, Or, Arithmetical Instructor, Containing a General Course of Mercantile Examples ...author, 1821 - 372 σελίδες |
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... merchants on the seaboard , it will be indispensable . He has shewn , by a single exam- ple in each case , how to resolve all the problems be- longing to Arithmetical and Geometrical Progres- sion ; he has also shewn how to raise the ...
... merchants on the seaboard , it will be indispensable . He has shewn , by a single exam- ple in each case , how to resolve all the problems be- longing to Arithmetical and Geometrical Progres- sion ; he has also shewn how to raise the ...
Σελίδα 82
... merchant in trade clears , one day with another , $ 5 , 50cts . for 20 years , what is he worth ? d . d . Υ . D. cts . D. cts . 1 : 3654 × 20 :: 5 , 50 : 40177 , 50 Ans . 19. Suppose a man's estate would last him 20 years , and support ...
... merchant in trade clears , one day with another , $ 5 , 50cts . for 20 years , what is he worth ? d . d . Υ . D. cts . D. cts . 1 : 3654 × 20 :: 5 , 50 : 40177 , 50 Ans . 19. Suppose a man's estate would last him 20 years , and support ...
Σελίδα 84
... tax will an estate pay , which is valued at $ 14000 , when 31cts . are assesed on the dollar ? D. D. cts . D. 1 : 14000 :: 34 : 490 Ans . 36. A merchant finds , after reckoning his expen- ees 84 RULE OF THREE DIRECT .
... tax will an estate pay , which is valued at $ 14000 , when 31cts . are assesed on the dollar ? D. D. cts . D. 1 : 14000 :: 34 : 490 Ans . 36. A merchant finds , after reckoning his expen- ees 84 RULE OF THREE DIRECT .
Σελίδα 85
... merchant retail $ 40000 worth of mer- chandize in a year , at 124 per cent clear profit ; re- quired , the whole gain . D. D. D. cts . D. 100 40000 :: 12 , 50 : 5000 Ans . 41. If a merchant lose 3 per cent , on $ 100000 worth of ...
... merchant retail $ 40000 worth of mer- chandize in a year , at 124 per cent clear profit ; re- quired , the whole gain . D. D. D. cts . D. 100 40000 :: 12 , 50 : 5000 Ans . 41. If a merchant lose 3 per cent , on $ 100000 worth of ...
Σελίδα 150
... merchants to calculate interest- on all balances which remain due upon credit sales , after a certain time . Generally , credit extends to two , four , and six months . After these periods of credit have gone round , interest is ...
... merchants to calculate interest- on all balances which remain due upon credit sales , after a certain time . Generally , credit extends to two , four , and six months . After these periods of credit have gone round , interest is ...
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Σελίδα 232 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Σελίδα 317 - If the vessel be double-decked, take the length thereof from the fore part of the main stem, to the after part of the stern post, above the upper deck ; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and then deduct from the...
Σελίδα 355 - Rule. Multiply the Logarithm of the given number by the Index of the proposed power, and the product will be the Logarithm, whose natural number is the power required.
Σελίδα 282 - Take a series of as many terms, decreasing by 1, from the given number, out of which the election is to be made, and find the product of all the terms.
Σελίδα 310 - ... when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the second and third, as the numbers 3, 4, 6.
Σελίδα 281 - To find the number of Permutations, or changes, that can be made of any given number of things all different from each other. RULE.
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Σελίδα 310 - Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression 'harmonical proportion...
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Σελίδα 361 - A cistern for water has two cocks to supply it, by the first it may be filled in 45 minutes, and by the second in 55 minutes; it has likewise a discharging cock, by which it may, when full, be emptied...