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8. There were forty-one men concerned in the pay ment of a sum of money, and each paid 3 dollars and 9 mills; how much was paid in all ?

Ans. $123 S6cts. 9mills

9. The number of inhabitants in the United States is five millions; now suppose each should pay the trifling sum of 5 cents a year, for the term of 12 years, towards a continental tax; how many dollars would be raised thereby ?

Ans. three millions Dollars.

2 T Multiply the Denominations of Sterling Moneyz Weights, Measures, &c.

RULE.*

Write down the Multiplicand, and place the quantity underneath the least denomination, for the Multiplier, and in multiplying by it, observe the same rules for carrying from one denomination to another, as in Compound Addition,

INTRODUCTORY EXAMPLES

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Multiply 1 11 6 2 by 5. How much is 3 times, 11 9

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When accounts are kept in pounds, shillings and pence This kind of multiplication is a concise and elegant method of finding the value of goods, at so much per yard, ib. &c. the general rule buing to multiply the given price by the quantity

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What cost nine yards of cloth at 5s. 6d. per yard?

Multiply by

£0 5 6 price of one yard.
9 yards.

Ans. £296 price of nine yards.

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12 bushels of apples, 12 bushels of wheat,

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at 0 9 10 per bush. 5 18 0 2. When the multiplier, that is, the quantity, is a composite number, and greater than 12, take any two such numbers as when multiplied together, will exactly produce the given quantity, and multiply first by one of those figures, and that product by the other; and the last duct will be the answer.

EXAMPLES.

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What cost 28 yards of cloth, at 6s. 10d. per yard? fs. d.

Multiply by

06 10 price of one yard.

7

Malces 27 10 price of 7 yards.

ely by

4

swer, 9 11 4 price of 28 yards.

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5. When no two numbers multiplied together will exactly make the multiplier, you must multiply by any two whose product will come the nearest; then multiply the upper line by what remained; which added to the last product gives the answer.

EXAMPLES.

What will 47 yds. of cloth come to at 175.9d. per yd.? £. s. d.

Multiply by

0179 price of 1 yard.

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