Application of the Rules contained in the foregoing Table. EXAMPLES. 1. Reduce 467. 10s. 6d. of the currency of New-Hampshire, into that of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, &c. 2. Reduce 251. 13s. 9d. Connecticut currency, to NewYork currency. Ans. £ 58 3 11. £. s. d. 3)25 13 9 By the table, +3, &c. 8 11 3 Ans. £34 50 3. Reduce 1257. 10s. 4d. New-York, &c. currency, to South-Carolina currency. Rule by the table, x7, by 12, &c. £. s. d. 125 10 4 7 12)878 12 4 Ans. £73 4 4 4. Reduce 4617. 11s. 8d. New-York and N. Carolina currency, to sterling or English money. £ s. d. Ans. £26 4 03 To reduce any of the different currencies of the several States into each other, at par; you may consult the preceding table, which will give you the rules. MORE EXAMPLES FOR EXERCISE. 5. Reduce 847. 10s. 8d. New-Hampshire, &c. currency, into New-Jersey currency. Ans. £105 13s. 4d. Ans. £160 11s. Odr 6. Reduce 1207. 8s. 3d. Connecticut currency, into NewYork currency. 7. Reduce 1207. 10s. Massachusetts currency, into South Carolina and Georgia currency. Ans. £93 14s. 5d. 8. Reduce 4107. 18s. 11d. Rhode-Island currency, int Canada and Nova-Scotia currency. Ans. £342 9s. 1d. 9. Reduce 5247. 8s. 4d. Virginia, &c. currency, into ster ling money. Ans. £393 6s. 3d. 10. Reduce 2141. 9s. 2d. New-Jersey, &c. currency, into N. Hamp. Massachusetts, &c. currency. Ans. 1717. 11s. 4d. 11. Reduce 1081. New-Jersey, &c. currency, into NewYork and North-Carolina currency. Ans. 1067. 13s. 4d. 12. Reduce 1007. Delaware and Maryland currency into sterling money. Ans. 607. 13. Reduce 1167. 10s. New-York currency, into Connecticut currency. Ans. 871. 7s. 6d. 14. Reduce 1127. 7s. 3d. S. Carolina and Georgia currency, into Connecticut, &c. currency. Ans. 1441. 9s. 33d. 15. Reduce 1007. Canada and Nova-Scotia currency, into Connecticut currency. Ans. 1207. 16. Reduce 1167. 14s. 9d. sterling money, into ConnecAns. 1557. 13s. ticut currency. 17. Reduce 1047. 10s. Canada and Nova-Scotia currency, into New-York currency. Ans. 1677. 4s. 18. Reduce 1001. Nova-Scotia currency, into New-Jersey, &c. currency. RULE OF THREE DIRECT. Ans. 1507. THE Rule of Three Direct teaches, by having three numbers given to find a fourth, which shall have the same proportion to the third, as the second has to the first. 1. Observe that two of the given numbers in your question are always of the same rame or kind: one of which must be the first number in stating, and the other the third number; consequently the first and third numbers must always be of the same name, or kind; and the other number, which is of the same kind with the answer, or thing sought, will always possess the second or middle place. 2. The third term is a demand; and may be grown by these or the like words before it, viz. What will? What cost? How many? How far? How long? or, How much? &c. RULE.-1. State the question; that is, place the numbers so that the first and third terms may be of the same kind; and the second term of the same kind with the answer, or thing sought.. 2. Bring the first and third terms to the same denomination, and reduce the second term to the lowest name mentioned in it. 3. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide their product by the first term; and the quotient will be the answer to the question, in the same denomination you left the second term in, which may be brought into any other denomination required. The method of proof is by inverting the question. [NOTE.-The following methods of operation, when they can be used, perform the work in a much shorter manner than the general rule." 1. Divide the second term by the first; multiply the quotient into the third, and the product will be the answer. Or, 2. Divide the third term by the first; multiply the quotient into the second, and the product will be the answer. Or, 3. Divide the first term by the second, and the third by that quotient, and the last quotient will be the answer. 4. Divide the first term by the third, and the second by that quotient, and the last quotient will be the answer.] EXAMPLES. 1. If 6 yards of cloth cost 9 dollars, what will 20 yards cost at the same rate? Here 20 yards, which moves the question, is the third term; 6 yds. the same kind, is the first, and 9. dollars the second. 2. If 20 yards cost 30 dols. what cost 6 yards? Yds. $ Yds. 2,0)18,0 Ans. $9 Yds. Yds. 6:9: 20 9 6)180 Ans. $30 3. If 9 dollars will buy 6 yards, how many yards will 30 dols. buy? $ yds. $ 9:6:30 6 9)180 Ans. 20yd. 4. If 3 cwt. of sugar cost 81. 8s. what will 11 cwt. I qr. 5. If one pair of stockings cost 4s. 6d. what will 19 dozen pair cost? Ans. £51 6s. 6. If 19 dozen pair of shoes cost 511. 6s. what will one pair cost? Ans. 4s. 6d. 7. At 101d. per pound, what is the value of a firkin of butter, weight 56 pounds? Ans. £2 9s. 2s. at 9d. per Ans. 5 C. 2 grs. 9. Bought 8 chests of sugar, each 9 cwt. 2 qrs. what do they come to at 21. 5s. per cwt.? Ans. £171. 10. If a man's wages be 751. 10s. a year, what is that a calendar month? Ans. £6 5s. 10d. 11. If 4 tuns of hay will keep 3 cattle over the winter; how many tuns will it take to keep 25 cattle the same time? Ans. 37 tuns. 12. If a man's yearly income be 2087. Is. what is that a day? Ans. 11s. 4d. 3-733 qrs. 13. If a man spend 3s. 4d. per day, how ruch is that a year? Ans. £60 16s. 8d. 14. Boarding at 12s. 6d. per week, how long will 321. 10s. last me? Ans. 1 year. 15. A owes B 34751. but B compounds with him for 13s. 4d. on the pound; pray what must be receive for his debt? Ans. £2316 13s. 4d, 8. How much sugar can you buy for 231. pound? 16. A goldsmith sold a tankard for 81. 12s. at 5s. 4d. per oz.what was the weight of the tankard? Ans. 27.8 oz.5pwt. 17. If 2 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lb. of sugar cost 6l. Is. Ed. what cost 354 cwt.? Ans. £73. 18. Bough: 10 pieces of cloth, each piece containing 9 yards, at 11s. 4 d. per yard; what did the whole come to? Ans. £55 9s. 03d. FEDERAL MONEY. NOTE 1. You must state the question, as taught in the Rules foregoing, and after reducing the first and third terms to the same name, &c. you may multiply and divide according to the rules in decimals; or by the rules for multiplying and dividing Federal Money. EXAMPLES. 19. If 7 yds. of cloth cost 15 dollars 47 cents, what will 12 yds. cost? Yds. $cts. yds. But any sum in dollars and cents may be written down as a whole number, and expressed in its lowest denomination, as in the following example: (See Reduction of Federal Money, page 62.) 20. What will 1 qr. 9 lb. sugar come to, at 6 dollars 45 cts. per cwt.? qr. lb. lb. cts. lb. |