 | Peirpont Edward Bates Botham - 1837 - 252 σελίδες
...sought, possesses the middle place, and when stated for solution stands thus : yds. $ yds. 18 : 5 : : 90 Then multiply the second and third terms together ; and divide the product by the first term ; the quotient will be the answer. Recapitulating the remarks alreadj made, we have the following... | |
 | Robert Simson (master of Colebrooke house acad, Islington.) - 1838 - 206 σελίδες
...When the terms are stated and reduced, how do you proceed in order to find a fourth proportional? I multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first, the quotient is the answer. In what name are the product of the second and third terms, the quotient, and the remainder... | |
 | George Willson - 1838 - 194 σελίδες
...mentioned in it.* * It is often better to reduce the lower denominations to tha daeimil «f the highest 3. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the answer, in that denomination which the third term was bft in. In arranging... | |
 | Thomas Holliday - 1838 - 404 σελίδες
...3.—By arithmetical computation. Having stated the question according to the proper rule or case, multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the fourth term required for the natural number. But in working by logarithms,... | |
 | Jason M. Mahan - 1839 - 312 σελίδες
...denomination, reduce both to the lowest in either, and the third to its lowest denomination mentioned. Multiply the second and third terms together, and...product by the first : the quotient will be the answer to the question, in the same denomination you left the third term in. Proof. — Invert the question... | |
 | Joseph Stockton - 1839 - 218 σελίδες
...either; and the middle term (if compound) to its lowest, and proceed according to the following RULE. Multiply the second and third terms together, and...the product by the first ; the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer, in the same name with the second. SINGLE RULE OF THREE DIRECT. 57 PROOF. Invert... | |
 | Joseph Stockton - 1839 - 216 σελίδες
...the middle term (if compound) to its lowest, and proceed according to the following -*» RULE. \ « Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first; the quotient wilfbe the fourth term, or answer, in the same name with the PROOF. Invert the question, making the... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - 1839 - 300 σελίδες
...than the fourth, make the less of the two remaining terms the Jirst term, and the greater the second: then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth. term, or answer. 1. If I buy 871 yards of cotton cloth for 78... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - 1839 - 220 σελίδες
...place the least of the two remaining numbers for the second term, and the greater for the first term ; then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term, and the quotient will be the answer in the same name of the third term. EXAMPLES. 1. If 6 yards... | |
 | 1841 - 200 σελίδες
...numbers, into the same denomination; and reduce the middle number, or term, into the lowest denomination mentioned; then (') multiply the second and third...the quotient will be (") the answer, or fourth term sought; and always will be (1') of the same denomination as the middle term was in when it was multiplied... | |
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Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer. 
