The tutor's assistant: being a compendium of arithmetic and a complete question-book. Containing, I. Arithmetic in whole numbers; being a brief explanation of all its rules, in a new and hitherto published; with an application to each rule, consisting of a large variety of questions in real business, with their answers annexed. II. Vulgar fractions, which are treated with a great deal of plainness and perspicuity. III. Decimals, with the extraction of the square, cube, and biquadrate roots, after a very plain and familiar manner; in which are set down rules for the easy calculation of interest, annuities, and pensions in arrears, the present worth of annuities, &c. either by simple or compound interest. IV. Duodecimals, or multiplication of feet and inches, with examples applied to measuring and working by multiplication, practice, and decimals. V. A collection of questions set down promiscuously, for the greater trial of the foregoing rules. To which are added, a new and very short metho

People / Organizations

• Francis Walkingame (Author)

Imprint

London] : Printed for the author, and sold by Edward Johnson; in Ave-Mary-Lane, 1775.

Publication year

1775

ESTC No.

T174810

Grub Street ID

211883

Description

[2],viii,[2],180,[4]p. ; 12°.

Note

With two final advertisement leaves.