Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic: Wherein Every Principle Taught Is Explained in a Simple and Obvious Manner; Containing Numerous Questions, and Combining the Useful Properties of Former Works, With the Modern Improvements; Being a Complete System to Which Is Added Two Methods of Book-Kee Federal Money and Compound Numbers succeed Com mon and Decimal Fractions whence the scholar, in Federal Money, learns no new rule, but merely applies the principles that govern Decimal Fractions and in Compound Numbers, he employs Common and Decimal Fractions In the same manner as in other cases. There are many similar improvements no subject being introduced until every thing necessary to be known before, has been explained in its proper place. NO article is mutilated or superficially described but every thing im portant to be known concerning it is fully and fairly stated. As examples to be performed in the mind furnish a very useful and necessary exercise, we have given an adequate number, and have interspersed them throughout the work, in appropriate places, so as to afford a pleasing variety, and illustrate the different parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.