 | John Groesbeck - 1872 - 374 pàgines
...denomination, and if the third term is a compound number, reduce it to the lowest term mentioned in it. 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. EXAMPLES. 1. If 25 barrels of flour cost $165,... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1872 - 204 pàgines
...terms to the same name, and the third, if necessary, to the lowest denomination mentioned in it. 5th. Multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first; the quotient will be the answer in the same name that the third term was reduced to. Ex. 1. — If... | |
 | John Homer French - 1872 - 348 pàgines
...the third term ; and for the second, when it is to be greater. IH. For the fourth or unknown term, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first'term. NOTES. — 1. When the terms of the first ratio are of different denominations, they must... | |
 | H T. Sortwell - 1873 - 176 pàgines
...place. Step III. If necessary, reduce the first and second terms to the same denomination. Step IV. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first. It Example (1). If a man can walk 112 miles in 7 days, how far will he walk in 48 days 1 , .. Here,... | |
 | Barnard Smith - 1873 - 366 pàgines
...second terms together for a final second term, and retain the former third term. In this final stating multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first. The quotient will be the answer to the question in the denomination to which the third term was reduced."... | |
 | Thomas W. Piper - 1874 - 352 pàgines
...reduce them to one denomination before proceeding any further. II. RULE FOR SOLVING THE PROPORTION.— Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first. Ex. 1. If 6 men earn 42s., how much will 36 men earn ? Here the answer must evidently be in wages,... | |
 | Philotus Dean - 1874 - 472 pàgines
...when the answer should be greater than the third term; otherwise write the less far the second term. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term. NOTE 1. — If the number sought is made any other term of the proportion than the fourth, each... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith, Thomas Kirkland - 1877 - 376 pàgines
...place; if less, in the first. Then having reduced the first and second terms to the same denomination, multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term. The quotient will be the answer required. NOTE. — After the third term has been written down... | |
 | Shelton Palmer Sanford - 1879 - 348 pàgines
...Arithmetic, where we have three terms given to find a fourth. The rule as practised in Arithmetic is to " multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first ;" which is equivalent to saving that The last extreme is equal to the product of the tiro means, divided... | |
 | Barnard Smith, Archibald McMurchy - 1879 - 200 pàgines
...second terms together for a final second term, and retain the former third term. In this final stating multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first. The quotient will be the answer to the question in the denomination to which the third term was reduced.... | |
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... for the second term, and the greater for the first ; and in either case multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first for the answer, which will always be of the same denomination as the third term. 
