ISBN: 1130968782

[EAN: 9781130968781], Neubuch, CHARLES HUTTON,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a fr… Meer...

[EAN: 9781130968781], Neubuch, CHARLES HUTTON,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 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. 1800 Excerpt: . . . nay, if the expression may be allowed, that they will admit of infinite varieties of infinite varieties of answers. After one or more answers are found by the rule, as many more are found as you please by increafing or decreafing the quantities in any proportion, or by only increafing or decreafing any one or more fingle pairs of yoke-fellows in any proportion, and Ieavini; the other rates as they are; but as that answer is commonly defired which gives the rates in the least integer numbers, and those the nearest to each other, I have to each of the following questions set down such answers as I found by linking the rates together the most posfible, and then, where no limitation was proposed, dividing the resulting quantities by their greatest common measure. , Examples. 1. How much wine at 6s per gallon, and 4s per gallon must be mixed together that the composition may be worth 5s per gallon Ans. 1 qrt or 1 gal or any one equal quantity of each sort. 2. How much sugar at 4c!, at 6d, and at 1 id per pound, must be mixed together, that thecompofition may be worth 7d per pound-Ans. 1 Ib or 1 stone, or j cwt, or any other equal quantity of each sort. 3. How much corn at 2S 6d, at 3s 8d, at 4s, and at 4s 8d, per bushel, must be mixed together, that the compound may be worth 3s iod per bushel Ans. 2 at 29 6d, 2 at 3s 8d, 3 at 4, and 3 at 4s 8d. 4. A compofition whose rate may be 7s 6d, being to be made, by mixing together fimples whose rates are 4s, 5s 8d, 6s, 7s 4d, and 8s; how much of each must be used Ans. An equal quantity of the first four sorts, and 14 times the fame quantity of the last fort. 5. To mix gold of 19 caracts fine, with gold of 23, of 21, of. 18, and of 17 caracts fine, that the compound may be 20 tracts fine; what quantity must be take. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1130968782

[EAN: 9781130968781], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… Meer...

[EAN: 9781130968781], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.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. 1800 Excerpt: .nay, if the expression may be allowed, that they will admit of infinite varieties of infinite varieties of answers. After one or more answers are found by the rule, as many more are found as you please by increafing or decreafing the quantities in any proportion, or by only increafing or decreafing any one or more fingle pairs of yoke-fellows in any proportion, and Ieavini; the other rates as they are; but as that answer is commonly defired which gives the rates in the least integer numbers, and those the nearest to each other, I have to each of the following questions set down such answers as I found by linking the rates together the most posfible, and then, where no limitation was proposed, dividing the resulting quantities by their greatest common measure., Examples. 1. How much wine at 6s per gallon, and 4s per gallon must be mixed together that the composition may be worth 5s per gallon? ' Ans. 1 qrt or 1 gal or any one equal quantity of each sort. 2. How much sugar at 4c!, at 6d, and at 1 id per pound, must be mixed together, that the'compofition may be worth 7d per pound?-Ans. 1 Ib or 1 stone, or j cwt, or any other equal quantity of each sort. 3. How much corn at 2S 6d, at 3s 8d, at 4s, and at 4s 8d, per bushel, must be mixed together, that the compound may be worth 3s iod per bushel? Ans. 2 at 29 6d, 2 at 3s 8d, 3 at 4$, and 3 at 4s 8d. 4. A compofition whose rate may be 7s 6d, being to be made, by mixing together fimples whose rates are 4s, 5s 8d, 6s, 7s 4d, and 8s; how much of each must be used? Ans. An equal quantity of the first four sorts, and 14 times the fame quantity of the last fort. 5. To mix gold of 19 caracts fine, with gold of 23, of 21, of. 18, and of 17 caracts fine, that the compound may be 20 tracts fine; what quantity must be take.<