First Lessons in AlgebraJenks, Hickling & Swan, 1851 |
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a b c a b x A's money A's share a² b² acres added Algebra amount answer apples asked the age barrels binomial bought bushels cents chaise coefficient completing the square compound quantity contain cost cube root debt difference digits Divide 18 dividend divisor dollars equa equal exponent expressed Extract the square gain gallons gentleman give given quantity greater half horse improper fraction less Let x A's letter miles an hour mixed multiply equation negative quantity oats obtain oranges peaches pears positive quantity pounds quan question quotient receive Reduce remainder Required the number rods second power second term SECTION sheep shillings Simple Quantities smaller number square root subtracted third power tion tity transposition twice unknown quantity worth x y z yards
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Σελίδα 68 - Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result as the first term of the quotient.
Σελίδα 122 - A man driving his geese to market, was met by another, who said, good morrow, master, with your hundred geese ; says he, I have not a hundred ; but if I had half as many more as I now have, and two geese and a half, I should have a hundred ; how many had he ? /C s"~
Σελίδα 68 - Then divide the first term of the remainder by the first term of the divisor...
Σελίδα 246 - Several gentlemen made an excursion, each taking the same sum of money. Each had as many servants attending him as there were gentlemen ; the number of dollars which each had was double the number of all the servants, and the whole sum of money taken out was 3456 dollars.
Σελίδα 141 - A man and his wife usually drank out a cask of beer in 12 days ; but when the man was from home, it lasted the woman 30 days : how many days would the man alone be in drinking it ? Ans.
Σελίδα 251 - 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.
Σελίδα 237 - A square court yard has a rectangular gravel walk round it. The side of the court wants 2 yards of being 6 times the breadth of the gravel walk ; and the number of square yards in the walk exceeds the number of yards in the periphery of the court by 164. Required the area of the court ? All equations of the second degree may be reduced to one of the following forms.
Σελίδα 166 - If A and B together can perform a piece of work in 8 days, A and C together in 9 days, and B and C in 10 days : how many days would it take each person to perform the same work alone ? Ans.
Σελίδα 125 - The distance from A to D is 34 miles. The distance from A to B is to the distance .from C to D as 2 to 3. And ± of the distance from A to B, added to half the distance from C to D, is three times the distance from B to C. What are the respective distances ? Ans.
Σελίδα 97 - If the coefficient of any term be multiplied by the exponent of a in that term, and the...