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... ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA FOR SCHOOLS , " HIGHER ALGEBRA , " " ELEMENTARY TRIGONOMETRY , " ETC. ETC. REVISED AND ADAPTED TO AMERICAN SCHOOLS BY FRANK L. SEVENOAK , A.M. , M.D. , PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL IN THE STEVENS ...
... ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA FOR SCHOOLS , " HIGHER ALGEBRA , " " ELEMENTARY TRIGONOMETRY , " ETC. ETC. REVISED AND ADAPTED TO AMERICAN SCHOOLS BY FRANK L. SEVENOAK , A.M. , M.D. , PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL IN THE STEVENS ...
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... THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION COPYRIGHT , 1895 , BY MACMILLAN & CO . Norwood Press : J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith . Norwood , Mass . , U.S.A. PREFACE . THE rearrangement of the Elementary Algebra of Messrs.
... THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION COPYRIGHT , 1895 , BY MACMILLAN & CO . Norwood Press : J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith . Norwood , Mass . , U.S.A. PREFACE . THE rearrangement of the Elementary Algebra of Messrs.
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Henry Sinclair Hall, Samuel Ratcliffe Knight. PREFACE . THE rearrangement of the Elementary Algebra of Messrs . Hall and Knight was undertaken in the hope of being able to give to our advanced secondary schools a work that would fully ...
Henry Sinclair Hall, Samuel Ratcliffe Knight. PREFACE . THE rearrangement of the Elementary Algebra of Messrs . Hall and Knight was undertaken in the hope of being able to give to our advanced secondary schools a work that would fully ...
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... Elementary Algebra which have been recently published . " The work will be found to meet the wants of all who do not require a knowledge of Algebra beyond Quadratic Equations that portion of the subject usually covered in the ...
... Elementary Algebra which have been recently published . " The work will be found to meet the wants of all who do not require a knowledge of Algebra beyond Quadratic Equations that portion of the subject usually covered in the ...
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... ELEMENTARY RULES IX . SIMPLE EQUATIONS • X. SYMBOLICAL EXPRESSION XI . PROBLEMS LEADING TO SIMPLE EQUATIONS XII . HIGHEST COMMON FACTOR , LOWEST COMMON MULTIPLE OF SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS . FRACTIONS INVOLVING PAGE 1 7 11 16 19 21 31 38 42 ...
... ELEMENTARY RULES IX . SIMPLE EQUATIONS • X. SYMBOLICAL EXPRESSION XI . PROBLEMS LEADING TO SIMPLE EQUATIONS XII . HIGHEST COMMON FACTOR , LOWEST COMMON MULTIPLE OF SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS . FRACTIONS INVOLVING PAGE 1 7 11 16 19 21 31 38 42 ...
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Page 91 - The product is a2+2a6-}-62; from which it appears, that the square of the sum of two quantities, is equal to the square of the first plus twice the product of the first by the second, plus the square of the second.
Page 107 - Conversely, the difference of the squares of any two quantities is equal to the product of the sum and the difference of the two quantities.
Page 89 - It is evident from the Rule of Signs that (1) no even power of any quantity can be negative; (2) any odd power of a quantity will have the same sign as the quantity itself. NOTE. It is especially worthy of notice that the square of every expression, whether positive or negative, is positive.
Page 54 - Transpose all the terms containing the unknown quantity to one side of the equation, and the "known quantities to the other.