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" 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. "
The Theory and Practice of Surveying: Containing All the Instructions ...
by Robert Gibson - 1811 - 508 pages
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New Elementary Algebra: Designed for Common and High Schools and Academies

Shelton Palmer Sanford - Algebra - 1879 - 348 pages
...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...
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Army and civil service examination papers in arithmetic

Arthur Dawson Clarke - 1880 - 286 pages
...numbers. (iv.) Cancel, if possible, the first and second terms, or the first and third terms. (v.) Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term, and the resulting answer will be of the same denomination as the third term. If 32 Ibs. of sugar cost 1s. 1o\d.,...
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A treatise on arithmetic. [With] Key, Volume 1

James Thomson - 1880 - 408 pages
...yards, and that the third term is in one denomination, namely, shillings, we multiply the numbers in the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the number in the first term. The result of this operation is the number 5, which is the number expressing...
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Concise system of arithmetic, re-arranged and enlarged by A. Trotter

A. Melrose - 1881 - 314 pages
...3. Reduce the first and second terms to the same name, and the third term to the lowest name in it ; then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term for the answer in that name to which the third term was reduced. Ex. 1. — If 12 acres of land maintain...
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Complete Graded Arithmetic, Oral and Written: Upon the Inductive Method of ...

James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1882 - 416 pages
...other numbers in pairs, or two of a kind, and arrange them as in simple proportion. (Art. 687.) III. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the product of the first terms. The quotient will be the answer. PROOF. — // the product of the first...
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Second Book in Arithmetic: Comprising Four Years of Oral and Written Work in ...

Arithmetic - 1882 - 392 pages
...term is to be less than the third term. III. To find the fourth or required term :— Multiply all the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the product of the first terms. Adapt remarks a, b, after rule for simple proportion, 164, to apply to...
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A Commercial Arithmetic: Designed for Academies, High Schools, Counting ...

James Bates Thomson - Business mathematics - 1884 - 344 pages
...second term; but when less, place the smaller for the second term, and the other for the first. III. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first; the quotient will be the fourth term or answer. NOTES.—1. The factors common to ihe first and second,...
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Complete Arithmetic: Combining Oral and Written Exercises

Edward Sylvester Ellis - Arithmetic - 1889 - 370 pages
...than the first. If the fourth term will be less than the third, make the second less than the first. Multiply the second and third terms together and divide the product by the first : the quotient is the fourth term, or term required. To TEACHER. — Proportion, formerly known aj...
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The New Review, Volume 6

1892 - 788 pages
...to that, and the whole problem of existence is easy and certain as a question in the Rule of Three. Multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first, and the quotient will be the answer ! Trust me, friend, before you come to my time of day, you will...
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The Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic and Business Manual ...

John Groesbeck - 1891 - 426 pages
...denomination, and if the third term is a compound number, reduce it to the lowest term mentioned in it. Tlien 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, what...
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