 | George Roberts Perkins - 1846 - 266 σελίδες
...term, the last term, and the number of terms, to find the common difference, we have this • RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less one,. EXAMPLES. 1. The first term of an arithmetical progression's 5, the last term is 176, and the... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1847 - 308 σελίδες
...years Hence, To Find the Common Difference ; — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number ot terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 2. If the extremes be 3 and Ч& and In« mmiber of ternis 1 , what it the oommoa difference JA *. 3. A man is to .ravel from Boston... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - 1847 - 300 σελίδες
...find the common difference. RULE. Subtract the less extreme from the greater, and divide the remainder by the number of terms less 1 , and the quotient will be the common difference. It has been shown under Theorem 3d. that the difference of the extremes is found by multiplying the... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - 1848 - 184 σελίδες
...first term, the last term, and the number of terms given to find the common difference. RDI.E. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...quotient will be the common difference. 2. If the first term of a series be 8, the last 108, and the number of terms 21, what is the common difference... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1848 - 330 σελίδες
...Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the num ber of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient is the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2.... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1848 - 342 σελίδες
...RULE. Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the number of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient is the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. Z.... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1848 - 330 σελίδες
...Divide the whole number added or subtracted, by the num her of additions or subtractions, that is, the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient if the number added or subtracted at one time, or the common difference. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2.... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1848 - 244 σελίδες
...difference of the extremes 24, must be 8 times the common difference, which is therefore 3. RULE. \ Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less one, and the quotient will be the common difference. This difference repeatedly added to the less,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - 1849 - 438 σελίδες
...12 hours? 604. To find the common difference, when the extremes and the number of terms are given. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference required. OBS. The truth of this rule is manifest from Art. 602. 4. The extremes are 5 and 56, and... | |
 | Nathan Daboll, David Austin Daboll - 1849 - 260 σελίδες
...n. • ' The first term, last term, and number of terms given, to f,nd the common difference. RULE. Divide the difference of the extremes by the number...1, and the quotient will be the common difference. EXAMPLES. 1. A man bought 17 yards of cloth in arithmetical progression. For the first yard he gave... | |
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Hence, when the extremes and number of terms are given, to find the common difference, — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. 
