A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic: Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations: with Forms of Accounts, and Other Writings Usually Occurring in TradeEdmund M. Blunt, (proprietor) No. 8, State-street, 1803 - 264 páginas |
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100 dollars 60 days Accounts agio alquiers amount annum answer arobe bank barrels bbls Boston bought bushel candareens carats casks cent centimes Change coffee commission compound interest copecs cube root current dollars cyphers decimal deducting deniers discounted for 30 ditto divide divisor dols ducats English equal EXAMPLES exchange farthings Federal money Flemish fraction gain gallon gilders given number given sum grotes half Hamburgh hhds hogshead inches Integer Irish livres tournois maravadies marks Massachusetts money MEASURE merchant millrea mills mixture months NOTE number of terms ounces payment pence piastres picul pieces pound sterling quantity quarter quintals quotient reals plate reals vellon reas received Reduce remainder rials rix dollar rotolas RULE rupees shillings ship sold Spanish dollar square root staves stivers subtract sugar tare velts vessel VULGAR FRACTIONS weighing gross whole number wine yards
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Página 237 - breadth, as above directed, deduct from the said length three-fifths of the breadth, and take the depth from the under side of the deck plank, to the ceiling in the hold, then multiply and divide as aforesaid, and the quotient shall be deemed: the tonnage." EXAMPLES. 1. What is the government
Página 5 - of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the , title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the ! words following, to wit :
Página 140 - Ans. Their income is 500 dollars per annum ; also A spends 400, and B 550 dollars per annum. 3. There is a fish whose head is 9 inches long, and his tail is as long as his head and half his body, and his body is as long as the head and tail ; what is the
Página 95 - a Certain equal time. RULE. As the whole stock is to the whole gain or loss, so is each man's particular stock to his particular share of the gain or loss. EXAMPLES, 1 . A and B buy certain merchandizes, amounting to
Página 231 - corresponding denominations of the multiplier. 2. Multiply each term in the multiplicand, (beginning at the lowest) by the feet in the multiplier ; write each result under each respective term, observing to carry an unit from each lower denomination to its superior. 3. In the same manner, multiply the multiplicand by the inches in the multiplier, and write the result of each term,
Página 139 - 3. A certain sum of money is to be divided between 4 persons, in such a manner, that the first shall have § of it, the second |, the third ¿, and the fourth the remainder, which is 28 dollars ; what was the sum ? Ans. 112 dois. 4. A person lent his friend a sum of money
Página 140 - than the given number, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient is the answer : But if the errors be unlike, divide the sum of the products by
Página 91 - in selling goods by weight. Tare is an allowance made to the buyer for the weight of the hogshead, barrel, or bag, containing the commodity. Tret is an allowance for waste, dust, &c. generally at 4 Ib, per 104 Ib.
Página 74 - divide two or more of them without a remainder, and set the quotients and the undivided numbers underneath. Divide these quotients and undivided numbers by any number that will divide two or more of them as before, and thus continue, till no two numbers are
Página 139 - 4. A person lent his friend a sum of money unknown, to receive interest for the same, at 6 per cent, per annum, simple interest, and at the end of 5 years he received for principal and interest 644 dollars 80 cents ; what was the sum lent ? Ans. 496