The Scholar's Arithmetic: Or, Federal Accountant : The Whole in a Form and Method Altogether New, for the Ease of the Master and the Greater Progress of the Scholar

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John Prentiss, 1820 - 224 Seiten
 

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Seite 188 - EF, or his certain attorney, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Seite 191 - I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises ; that they are free of all incumbrances ; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said David to hold as aforesaid.
Seite 185 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Seite 194 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for~a numerator, which place over the denominator.
Seite 195 - 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 terms.
Seite 190 - Dickinson, his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
Seite 134 - ... subtract it therefrom, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. " Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Seite 186 - Three jealous husbands with their wives, being ready to pass by night over a river, do find at the water side a boat which can carry but two persons at once, and for want of a waterman, they are necessitated to row themselves over the river at several times : The question is, how those six persons shall pass by 2 and 2, so that none of the three wives may be found in the company of one or two men, unless her husband be present ? 20.
Seite 70 - ... infinite number .of figures, will not equal ,9. ADDITION OF DECIMALS. RULE. 1. Place the numbers, whether mixed or pure decimals, under each other, according to the value of their places. 2. Find their sum as in whole numbers, and point off so many places for the decimals, as are equal to the greatest number of decimal parts in any of the given numbers.
Seite 194 - Divide the numerator by the denominator. The quotient will be the whole number, and the remainder, if...

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