A Treatise on ArithmeticA. Miller, 1878 - 347 σελίδες |
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acres amount ARITH Avoirdupois boys breadth buys carpet cent compound interest contains cube root cubic foot debt decimal fractions denominator Divide Dividend Divisor equal Examples factors farthings feet figures Find the cost Find the cube Find the difference Find the H. C. F. find the number Find the square Find the sum Find the value florins four FRANCIS STORR francs gain gallon guineas half-crowns horses hours a day income income-tax integer invests length measure mètres miles an hour millions minutes months hence Multiply ounce pence piece places of decimals pound Present Worth proceed Quotient recurring decimal Reduce remainder represents a number Rugby School sells shillings simple interest Simplify square root square yard subtract thousand three hundred tons units Vulgar Fraction weight wide ΙΟ
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Σελίδα 43 - If the numerator and denominator of a fraction be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered.
Σελίδα 43 - A PROPER FRACTION is one in which the numerator is less than the denominator. The value of every proper fraction is less than 1, (Art. 94). The following are proper fractions : 1 1 1 .3 3. £ 9 jS A 2...
Σελίδα 293 - A banker borrows money at 3^ per cent, per annum, and pays the interest at the end of the year ; he lends it out at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, but receives the interest quarterly, and by this means gains £200 a-year ; how much does he borrow ? 15. A person spends in the 1st year n times the interest of his property ; in the 2nd year 2...
Σελίδα 312 - At a siege it was found that a certain length of trench could be dug by the soldiers and navvies in 4 days, but that when only half the navvies were present it required 7 days to dig the same length of trench. What proportion of the work was done by the soldiers?
Σελίδα 306 - If A can do as much work in 5 hours as B can do in 6 hours, or as C can do in 9 hours, how long will it take...
Σελίδα 176 - ... 60. If a man travel 150 miles in 5 days, when the days are 12 hours long, in how many days of 10 hours each will he travel 500 miles?
Σελίδα 174 - If 3(J men perform a piece of work in 20 days ; how many men will accomplish another piece of work 4 times as large in a fifth part of the time ? S0 : 20 : : 1 4 : : 4 Ms.
Σελίδα 308 - A person bought a French watch, bearing a duty of 25 per cent. ; and sold it at a loss of 5 per cent. ; had he sold it fcr ¿3 more, he would have cleared I per cent, on his bargain.
Σελίδα 210 - Four quantities are in proportion when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth.
Σελίδα 275 - The content of a cistern is the sum of two cubes whose edges are 10 inches and 2 inches, and the area of its base is the difference of two squares whose sides are 1¿ and If feet.