A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic, [etc.].Otis, Broaders & Company, 1841 - 340 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 327 - At sixty days sight of this my first of exchange, second and third of the same tenor and date not paid, pay to James Parke or order, eleven thousand francs, with or without further advice from me.
Σελίδα 155 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total. If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due...
Σελίδα 155 - But if any payment be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year : add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as...
Σελίδα 164 - Multiply each debt by the time to elapse before it is due, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the debts.
Σελίδα 266 - There are five things in arithmetical progression, any three of which being given, the other two may be found : — 1st. The first term. 2d. The last term. 3d. The number of terms. 4th. The common difference. 5th. The sum of all the terms.
Σελίδα 65 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the given numerator.
Σελίδα 337 - If four magnitudes are in proportion, the product of the two extremes is equal to the product of the two means.
Σελίδα 69 - ... multiply each numerator by all the denominators, except its own, for a new numerator, and under it write the common denominator.
Σελίδα 207 - The area of a triangle is equal to half the product of its base by its altitude.
Σελίδα 156 - ... on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the year; add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest added as above.