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. 1891 Excerpt: ...fraction, 300 books being the multiplicand, Q% (or.06) being the multiplier, and 18 books being the product In examples in Percentage, The Multiplicand is called the Base; The Multiplier is called the Rate per cent; The Product is called the Percentage. Observe that the word Percentage has two meanings, viz.: 1, a ...
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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. 1891 Excerpt: ...fraction, 300 books being the multiplicand, Q% (or.06) being the multiplier, and 18 books being the product In examples in Percentage, The Multiplicand is called the Base; The Multiplier is called the Rate per cent; The Product is called the Percentage. Observe that the word Percentage has two meanings, viz.: 1, a department in arithmetic, and, 2, the product of the base multiplied by the rate per cent. 2. The base is 800 dollars; the rate is 5%; what is the percentage? Solution. Since the percentage is always the product of the two factors base and rate per cent, $800X.05=$40. Note. In performing operations such as the above, it is best to write the rate per cent as a decimal. Unless it is a fractional rate, it is written as hundredths. See Art. 356. 3. What is the percentage when the base is 400 cows, and the rate is 9 per cent? 4. What is 7 per cent of 300 men? Such examples are included under Case I. 362. Base and Rate per cent given, to find the Percentage: Multiply the Base by the Rate expressed as a decimal. Oral. 1. Find 8$ of 900 ounces; of 400 ounces. 2. Find 3$ of 500 inches; of 600 feet. 3. What is 10$ of 750 lbs. of sugar. 4. What is 20$ of 40 oranges? 5. The base is 800 bricks; the rate is 25%; what is the percentage? 6. A man lost 50% of his fortune, $16000. How many dollars did he lose? 7. Find 12-% of 24-12#=.13J=i. 8. Find 37%of 48; of 64; of 56. 9. Find 62 % of 32; of 72; of 80. 10. Find 331% of 15; of 21; of 60. 11. Find 66$of 27; of 48; of 96. 12. The base is 96; the rate is 874%; what is the percentage? Written. 13. Find 56% of $4984. 14. Find 72% of 3757 acres. 15. Find 98% of 345 bushels of oats. 16. Find 35% of 6400 oxen. 17. A merchant invested 24% of his capital of $120,000 in dry goods; how many dollars did he invest in dry ...
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