Walkinghame's Tutor's Assistant ... Revised, corrected, and modernized, by E. Lethbridge |
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Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant, Revised and Modernized by E. Lethbridge Francis Walkingame Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2016 |
Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant, Revised and Modernized by E. Lethbridge Francis Walkingame Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2013 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
acres aliquot amount annuity annum answer barrel Bought bushels cheese ciphers cloff common measure compound interest contained cube root denominator difference discount ditto divide dividend divisor equal farthings fcap feet figure florins gain per cent gallon Geometrical Progression given number given sum groschen gross guineas hhds hogsheads hundred improper fraction inches Integer last term least common multiple lowest terms miles milreis mixed number multiplicand Multiply neat weight number given number of terms ounce payment pence penny pieces Pints pounds present worth principal proper quantity proportion quarters Quarts quotient raisins rate per cent ratio Reduce remainder resolvend Rule of Three RULE.-Multiply shillings simple interest sold sort square root sterling subtract sugar suttle TABLE tare tobacco tret 4 lb troy TROY WEIGHT Vulgar Fractions whole number wine yards cost yards of cloth
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Σελίδα 37 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new numerator, and place it over the denominator. 1. Reduce 127T^ to an improper fraction.
Σελίδα 37 - To reduce a compound fraction to a single one. RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator, then reduce the new fraction to its lowest term by Case I.
Σελίδα 90 - I. When it is required to find how many of the first sort of coin, weight or measure, mentioned in the question, are equal to a given quantity of the last.
Σελίδα 109 - A man is to travel from Boston to a certain place in 12 days, and to go but 3 miles the first day, increasing every day by an equal excess, so that the last day's journey may be 58 miles : what is the daily increase, and how many miles distant is that place from Boston ? Ans.
Σελίδα 52 - Sir," said I, after puzzling a long time over "more requiring more and less requiring less" — "will you tell me why I sometimes multiply the second and third terms together and divide by the first — and at other times multiply the first and second and divide by the third?" "Why, because more requires more sometimes, and sometimes it requires less — to be sure. Haven't you read the rule, my boy?" " Yes, sir, I can repeat the rule, but I don't understand it.
Σελίδα 113 - In any Geometrical Progression, not proceeding from unity, the ratio being given, to find any remote term, without producing all the intermediate terms. RULE. Proceed as in the last, only observe that every product must be divided by the first term.
Σελίδα 94 - The top of a castle from the ground is 45 yards high, and is surrounded with a ditch 60 yards broad ; what length must a ladder be to reach from the outside of the ditch to the top of the castle ? Ans.
Σελίδα 15 - Days in each Month. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; February hath twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty and one ; Except leap-year, and then's the time February's days are twenty-nine.