DIVISION. I. If 1000 oranges coft 10 dollars, what is that a piece? And here I would remind the learner, that, when he has brought down all his whole numbers, or dollars, in the dividend, he muft place a comma in the quotient; and if, when he has brought down the next figure, he cannot have the divifor once, he must place. a cypher at the right hand of the comnia, in the place of dimes. I the Integer. 2 Shil. dec. Shil. dec. DECIMAL TABLES of Coin, Weight and Measure. TABLE I. COIN. Farthings. Decimals. Grains. Decimals. 3 ,0625 5 ,010416 ,041666 I ,008333 ,020833 3 ,00625 ,004166 ,002083 TABLE IV. Qrs. , I Penny weights. I ,25 Pounds. Decimals. ,033333 ,029166 26 27 ,241071 ,232143 ,025 25 ,020833 ,223214 ,016666 ,0125 ,008333 1 ,004166 20 ,0125 ,178571 Grains. ,008333 ,169643 ,160714 Farthings. Decimals. 3 2 I ,003125 ,0020833 ,0010416 TABLE 1. Coin and Long Meaf. I Shilling & I Foot the Integer. ,001736 16 ,142857 ,133928 ,001389 14 ,125 ,001215 13 ,110761 ,001042 12 ,107143 ,000868 ,098214 ,000694 ,089286 ,000521 98765432 ,080357 ,071428 ,0625 ,953571 ,04643 ,035714 ,026786 ,666666 Grains. Decimals. ,017857 ,583333 12 ,025 ,022916 I ,003928 Ounces. Decimals. ,416666 10 ,020833 15 ,008370 ,333333 ,01875 ,166666 ,006696 Carried over. Yards. Decimals. ,003977 6 ,023437 ,00284 I ,002273 ,004464 ,001704 ,003906 2, ,007812 003348 ,000568 5 ,00279 2 ,0003787 ,0001892 Brought over Hours. Decimals. [Minutes Decimals. Days. Decimals. 19 791666 30 ,020833 30 ,082192 18 ,013888 Is extremely useful in finding the value of Goods, &c. --And, as in Compound Addition, we carry from the loweft denomination to the next higher, fo, we begin » and carry in Compound Multiplication; one general rule being, to multiply the price by the quantity. When the quantity does not exceed 12 yards, pounds, &c. fet down the price of 1, and place the quantity underneath the leaft denomination, for the multiplier, and, in multiplying by, obferve the fame rules for carrying froni one denomination to another, as in Compound Addition. INTRODUCTORY PRACTICAL QUESTION S. What will 9 yards of cloth, at 5s. 4d. per yard, come to ? When the multiplier, that is, the quantity, is above 12, you muft multiply by two fuch numbers, as, when multiplied together, will produce the given quantity. EXAMP LE S.. 1. What will 144 yards of cloth cost, at 35.*5{d. per yard? |