A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic: Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations; with Forms of Accounts, and Other Writings Usually Occurring in TradeE. Little & Company, 1816 - 275 σελίδες |
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... method of proving addition is to reckon down- wards , as well as upwards , the sums of which will be equal , when the addition is just , two spaces are left for the work . SIMPLE SUBTRACTION Teacheth to take a less number from a greater ...
... method of proving addition is to reckon down- wards , as well as upwards , the sums of which will be equal , when the addition is just , two spaces are left for the work . SIMPLE SUBTRACTION Teacheth to take a less number from a greater ...
Σελίδα 64
... method of proof is by reversing the question . EXAMPLES . 1. If 2 yards of cloth cost 48. what will 125 yards come to ? yds . yds . 8. yds . If 2 : 4 : : 125 yds . £ . s . Proof : if 125 12 10 :: 2 4 20 2 ) 500 250 2 20 ) 250 Ans . 6.12 ...
... method of proof is by reversing the question . EXAMPLES . 1. If 2 yards of cloth cost 48. what will 125 yards come to ? yds . yds . 8. yds . If 2 : 4 : : 125 yds . £ . s . Proof : if 125 12 10 :: 2 4 20 2 ) 500 250 2 20 ) 250 Ans . 6.12 ...
Σελίδα 91
... method . 287 143 10 Second method . 287 17 6 2009 287 yards . 3172 at 3 . 3691 4 . 4765 5 . 3718 18 4 71 15 35 17 6 Ans . .251 2s . 6d . · s . d . 15 19 11 C 61 143 6 20 ) 5022 6 Ans . . 251 2s . 6d . £ . S. Ans . 6129 3506 9 2779 11 8 ...
... method . 287 143 10 Second method . 287 17 6 2009 287 yards . 3172 at 3 . 3691 4 . 4765 5 . 3718 18 4 71 15 35 17 6 Ans . .251 2s . 6d . · s . d . 15 19 11 C 61 143 6 20 ) 5022 6 Ans . . 251 2s . 6d . £ . S. Ans . 6129 3506 9 2779 11 8 ...
Σελίδα 92
... method is used . 1. What will 45 cwt . 2 qrs . 14 lb. of sugar come to , at £ 37 9 per cwt . ? 3 7 9 5 16 18 9 9 152 8 9 price of 45 cwt . 2 qrs . 14 lb. 1 13 103 0 8 5 price of 2 qrs . price of 14 lb. Ans . £ .154 11 1 2 . T. cwt . gr ...
... method is used . 1. What will 45 cwt . 2 qrs . 14 lb. of sugar come to , at £ 37 9 per cwt . ? 3 7 9 5 16 18 9 9 152 8 9 price of 45 cwt . 2 qrs . 14 lb. 1 13 103 0 8 5 price of 2 qrs . price of 14 lb. Ans . £ .154 11 1 2 . T. cwt . gr ...
Σελίδα 112
... method of computing the time , but as it is 5 days less in a year than the true number , some merchants calculate by days , without any regard to months , as being more accurate . EXAMPLES . 28. What is the interest of 7086 dollars 112 ...
... method of computing the time , but as it is 5 days less in a year than the true number , some merchants calculate by days , without any regard to months , as being more accurate . EXAMPLES . 28. What is the interest of 7086 dollars 112 ...
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Accounts agio amount annum answer arobe Avoirdupois banco barrel bbls Boston breadth bushels candareens casks cattas cent centimes Change coffee common denominator compound copecs cost cube root current dollars cyphers decimal deniers discount ditto divide dividend divisor dols ducats English equal EXAMPLES exchange farthings Federal money feet figure Flemish florins gain gallons gilders given number given sum grotes half Hamburgh hhds hundred improper fraction inches Integer interest invoice livres livres tournois maravadies MEASURE merchant millreas mills months Multiply neat Newburyport number of terms ounces payment pence piastres picul pound sterling quarter quintals quotient reals plate reals vellon reas Reduce remainder rix dollar rotolas rubles RULE rupees shillings ship sold soldi Spanish dollar square root stivers subtract subtrahend sugar TABLE tare thousand TROY WEIGHT vessel VULGAR FRACTIONS weighing gross weight whole number wine worth yards
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Σελίδα 7 - Wilkins, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit '• — " Alff%t90V t ЛЛ-ГЛ KrljnßufyT fflfflv, (ГО A\t%¿Vc In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 253 - ... above the upper deck ; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and...
Σελίδα 79 - 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 275 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading...
Σελίδα 229 - New-London to a certain place in 9 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 43 miles: Required the daily increase, and the length of the whole journey 1 Ans.
Σελίδα 60 - Multiply the decimal by the number of parts in the next less denomination, and cut off so many places for a remainder, to the right hand, as there are places in the given decimal. 2. Multiply the remainder by the next inferior denomination, and cut off...
Σελίδα 76 - The number above the line is called the numerator, and that below the line the denominator. The denominator...
Σελίδα 144 - If the errors are unlike. divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.
Σελίδα 271 - ... have granted, bargained, and sold and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell, release and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Σελίδα 253 - ... of the breadth; multiply the remainder by the breadth, and the product by the depth...