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Note. You must write down the numbers of the fame denomination under each other, in all the preceeding examples; and add them up as in addition of money; only take care to carry from one denomination to another, according to the table pertaining to each particular weight or measure.

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Queft. 3. A gentleman by will left the following legacies to be divided amongst his children, viz. four fons and three daughters: to Simon 300l. to Ralph 160l. to John 1s. to James 120l. to Sufan 931. to Ruth 5. and to Margery 430/. Query, the fortune the gentleman left?

*Sir John Barleycorn.

The Landlord,

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To answer this Queftion, write down each one's fortune, and add them together thus:

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Queft. 4. A person was 16 years

of
age 29 years fince; and it is faid
he will be drowned 21 years hence :

pray in what year of his age will
this happen?

Simon's

Ralph's

160

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Queft. 5. A gentleman dying, left his executor a fum not amounting to 2000l. to be fo divided amongst his relations; that his father and mother, his fon and his grandfon, his brother and his daughter, fhould each receive a fum not less than 6667. 13s. 3d. Query, the fcheme of kindred, and exact fum left?

SOLUTION. Suppofe two widows, A and B, no kin to each other, to be left each with a fon, and that A's fon marries B, and B's fon marries A; and that A's fon has a fon by B, and A's fon is the gentleman that leaves the money. This is the scheme of kindred, and to find the fum

left, proceed thus:

To his father, who in this cafe is the fame as his fon,
To his mother, who in the fame manner is his daughter,
To his grandfon likewife, who is the fame as his brother,

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Queft. 6. A sheep-fold was robbed three nights fucceffively; the firft night half the sheep were ftolen, and half a sheep more; the second night half the remainder were loft, and half a fheep more; the last night they took half what were left, and half a sheep more, by which time they were reduced to twenty; how many were there at first?

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Queft. 7. Please to inform me, how much money I muft fend to my Baker; for twenty Halfpenny loaves, twenty Penny loaves; and twenty Three Halfpenny loaves?

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VIII. COMPOUND SUBTRACTION.

EACHETH to find the difference between any two fums of divers denominations.

RULE. Subtract as in integers, only when the lower number in any denomination happens to be greater, borrow one, that is, add as many to the upper number as makes one of the next fuperior denomination, and then fubtract the lower number, and fet down the remainder; then carry 1, and add it to the lower number of the next denomination, and fub. tract as before.

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To work this example, begin at the leaft denomination, faying 1 from 2, and there remains I farthing, which place under the line thus ; then fubtract 4 from 5, and there remains I penny, which fet down under its own denomination, and proceed to the fhillings; 16 from 14 I cannot, 20 that I borrow to 14 is 34, 16 from 34, and there remains 18; then, because you borrowed 1 pound, or 20 fhillings, fay 1 that I borrowed and 2 is 3, 3 from 9 and there remains 6; 1 from 1 and there remains nothing; and the remainder is 67. 18s. 1d. which add to the line above it, and the fum will be equal to the top line, which proves the work to be right.

OBSERVATION. Subtraction of all forts and denominations, is performed after the very fame manner as the preceding example, only you must borrow, and add or repay, according to each denomination; therefore to give any further explanations relating thereto would be only tautology.

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E. 6. Suppofe my half-year's rent is zo guineas, and that I have laid out for the land-tax and other levies 87. 18s. 8d. and for several repairs 31. 45. 2d. what remains due to the landlord?

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E. 7. A carpenter's bill upon a farmer is 867. 18s. 8d. out of which he has received in cafh 20/. in corn 67. 125. 2d. in coals 2/. 15. 6d. and in cheese and bacon 12s. 6d. what remains due to the carpenter ?

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Rem. 546 1 6

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Rem. 198 21 28
WINE MEASURE. A nobleman hath two cellars, the larger con-
tains of feveral kinds of liquors 3 tons and 2 hogfheads, and the other r
ton 3 hogfheads, 32 gallons, and 4 pints; how much liquor is there in
the one more than the other?

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WINCHESTER MEASURE. A brewer delivers to his cuftomers in one day 24 hogfheads and 16 gallons, in another day, 18 hogsheads and 48 gallons, what is the difference?

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