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... other system given ? The answers to the remaining questions are interspersed among the solutions and in the Appendix . MENSURATION . In what does the problem of the quadrature QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION . 13 Supplementary questions,
... other system given ? The answers to the remaining questions are interspersed among the solutions and in the Appendix . MENSURATION . In what does the problem of the quadrature QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION . 13 Supplementary questions,
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... answer , which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend . 4. The remainder , which is al- ways less than the divisor , and of the same name with the dividend . Rule for division . 1. Place the divisor on the left of ...
... answer , which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend . 4. The remainder , which is al- ways less than the divisor , and of the same name with the dividend . Rule for division . 1. Place the divisor on the left of ...
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... answer for that time . 3. If there be parts of a year , as months and days , work for the months by the aliquot parts of a year , and for the days by the rule of three direct , or by allowing 30 days to the month and taking aliquot ...
... answer for that time . 3. If there be parts of a year , as months and days , work for the months by the aliquot parts of a year , and for the days by the rule of three direct , or by allowing 30 days to the month and taking aliquot ...
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... answer . III . A man married at the age of 23 ; he lived with his wife 14 years ; she then died , leaving him a daughter , 12 years of age ; 8 years after , the daughter was married to a man 5 years older than herself , who was 4 years ...
... answer . III . A man married at the age of 23 ; he lived with his wife 14 years ; she then died , leaving him a daughter , 12 years of age ; 8 years after , the daughter was married to a man 5 years older than herself , who was 4 years ...
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... answer . - 1309440 12 inches 1 foot . 15713280 in . from B. to N.Y. V. A owes B 3475 pounds ; but B compounds with him for 13 shillings and 4 pence on the pound ; what must B re- ceive for his debt ? Daboll , p . 102 . This question ...
... answer . - 1309440 12 inches 1 foot . 15713280 in . from B. to N.Y. V. A owes B 3475 pounds ; but B compounds with him for 13 shillings and 4 pence on the pound ; what must B re- ceive for his debt ? Daboll , p . 102 . This question ...
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Page 36 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each ; and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Page 49 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 42 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles...
Page 39 - IF a straight line be divided into any two parts, four times the rectangle contained by the whole line, and one of the parts, together with the square of the other part, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the whole and that part.
Page 38 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 37 - IF a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another; and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite upon the same side; and likewise the two interior angles upon the same side together equal to two right angles...
Page 38 - Prove it. 6.If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced, and the part of it produced together with the -square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced.
Page 42 - IF from any point without a circle two straight lines be drawn, one of which cuts the circle, and the other touches it ; the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts the circle, and the part of it without the circle, shall be equal to the square of the line which touches it.
Page 35 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles, that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity, equal to one another.
Page 33 - Then divide the first term of the remainder by the first term of the divisor...