Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ...hundred weight; divide the whole price by the number of hundred weight given, and the quotient will be the answer. If, having the price of several hundred weight given, you wish to find the price of a quarter, a pound, &c.; first find the price of a hundred weight, and then the price of the lower denominations, by dividing this price by those numbers which will reduce a number from a hundred weight to the denomination for which you wish to find a price. If 8cwt. sugar cost $48, what is that per cwt.? 8)48 Ans. $ 6 If 16 cwt. sugar cost $148, what is that per pound? 16)148(9,25 price of cwt. 144 4)9,35 40 28)231(8,2 32 224 80 70 80 56 Ans. $0,082 14 If I give $450, for 210 cwt. raisins, what do they cost per cwt.? Ans. $ 2,142. When the given quantity consists of several denominations, as of hundreds, quarters, pounds, &c. and the price of the whole given, to find the price of any particular denomination, first reduce the given quantity to the denomination for which you wish to find a price, and divide the price of the whole by it, when the quotient will be the answer. If the given quantity consist of lower denominations than the one for which you wish to find the price; reduce (he given quantity to the lowest denomination mentioned, and find the price for that, and then find the price for the other denominations, by multiplying this price by such numbers as will reduce a numDer from this denomination to the denomination for which a price is wanted. If I give $124 for 16 cwt. 2 qr. of sugar, what is that per quarter? 16 2 4 66)124(1,378 Ans. $1,878. 66 580 528 520 462 580 528 52 By reducing the whole quantity to quarters and dividing the price by that number, you get the price of one quarter; for if 66 quarters cost $124, one quarter will cost one si...
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