The Mercantile Arithmetic, Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations: With an Appendix Containing Practical Systems of Mensuration, Gauging, and Book-keepingRichardson & Lord, 1828 - 315 σελίδες |
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acres amount annum answer balance barrels bbls bill Boston bought bushels Candareens Cash casks cent Charles Dutton ciphers coffee common denominator cost cube root cubic decimal diameter discount divide dividend divisor dols ducat duty English equal EXAMPLES farthings Federal money feet figure Flour freight gallons given number given sum half hhds hundred improper fraction inches insured interest Leger length lowest terms Mackerel Maunds measure merchant miles mills mixed number months Multiply ounces oxen Paid Payable payment pence piastres picul piece pound principal proceeds Profit and Loss quarter quintals quotient reals vellon Received Reduce remainder Required rotolas RULE Rupees Schooner shillings ship Simon Hill sold Spanish dollar square root sterling stivers Stock subtract sugar Sundries tare thousandths TROY WEIGHT vessel VULGAR FRACTIONS weight whole number wine yards
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Σελίδα 74 - Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said party of the second part...
Σελίδα ii - Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: District Clerk's Office.
Σελίδα 61 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Σελίδα 74 - ... having agreed to the description and admeasurement above specified, and sufficient security having been given, according to the said act, • the said ship or vessel has been duly registered at the port of...
Σελίδα 150 - Subtract that number from as many points of the given power, as is brought down, beginning at the lower place, and to the remainder bring down the first figure of the next point for a new dividend.
Σελίδα 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Σελίδα 138 - A man is to travel from Boston to a certain place in 12 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 58 miles : what is the daily increase, and how many miles distant is that place from Boston ? Ans.
Σελίδα 80 - 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 78 - Multiply the whole numbers by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new numerator, and place it over the denominator.
Σελίδα 155 - ... part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and...