1. Reduce $99.67 cts. to lawful money. To reduce the former currency of New-York and NorthCarolina to dolls. cts. &c. and the contrary. RULE. Prepare the sum to be reduced exactly as in New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, &c. and divide by 4 instead of 3, the quotient is cents. N. B. One dollar is equal to 8 shillings Examples. 1. Reduce £9 168. to dollars, &c. 984 $24.50 Ans. 2. Reduce £230 10s. to dollars, &c. 23054-8576.25 Ans. 3. Reduce £219 158. 4 d. to dollars, cents, &c. 2197.50 2197 684=$524·42 Ans: 4. Reduce £419 108. to dollars, cents, &c. CONTRA. $1049.75 Ans. Change dollars, &c. to New-York and North Carolina currency. RULE. Proceed as in New-Hampshire currency, &c. only multiply by 4 instead of 3. Examples. 1. Change 842 dollars to New-York currency, &c. 842 £336 16s. Ans. 2. Change $114.25 to North-Carolina currency &c. New-Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland currencies reduced to the present currency of the United States, and the contrary. N. B. One dollar equal to 7s. 6d. in these states. RULE. Multiply the given sum (if it is pounds only,) by 8, and divide the product by 3; the quotient is dollars. If the sum is pounds, shillings and pence, reduce the whole to pence, and add one ninth of the whole to itself, the sum will be cents.. Examples: 1. Reduce £942 to dollars, &c. 942 8 3)7536 $2512 Ans. 2. Reduce £961 19s. 6d. to dollars, &c. £ 8. d. 961 196 20 19239 12 9)230878 25653 $2565.31 cts. Ans. CONTRA. Reduce dollars, &c. to the former currency of NewJersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. RULE. If the sum is dollars only; multiply by 3, and divide by 8; the quotient is pounds; if the sum is dollars and cents, subtract one tenth of the whole sum from itself, the remainder is pence. 1. Reduce 628 dollars to Delaware currency, &c. 628 X38 £235 10s. Ans. 2. Reduce 2512 dollars to New-Jersey currency. Ans. £942. 3. Reduce $2565-20 to Maryland currency, &c. 1)2565.20 256.52 subtract. - 12)230868 20)19239 £961 19s. Ans. South-Carolina and Georgia currency reduced to dolls. and cts. and the contrary. RULE. If the sum to be reduced is pounds, multiply by 30, and divide by 7, the quotient is dollars; (a dollar in South Carolina is equal to 4s. 8d. or seven thirtieths of a pound); if there are shillings and pence, &c. reduce the whole to pence, annex two cyphers and divide by 56, the quotient is cents. Dollars, &c. reduced to Georgia, and South-Carolina currency. RULE. Multiply dollars by 7, and divide by 30, the quotient is pounds. If there are cents in the sum, multiply by 56, reject two figures from the right of the product, the rest of the figures are pence. Examples. 1. Reduce $240 to Georgia currency, &c. 240X7 30=£56 Ans. 2. Reduce $90 to South-Carolina currency, &c. 90X730=£21 Ans. 3. Reduce $96-284 to Georgia currency. 96.28 57768 48140 72 12)5392.40 4498.4d.=£22 9s. 4d. Ans. |