Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners Volume 1-2; Together with Appendices (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. 1859 Excerpt: ... on the cost price? 11. Find the interest at 4g per cent, on 924/. 12. 8d. lent on the 18th of March and repaid on the 11th of August, the former day being excluded and the latter included. 12. What principal lent at 3J per cent, simple interest will amount in 5 years to 1,884/. 19. 10$d.? 13. What will be the amount of 825/. at the end of 2 years at 41. per cent, per annum compound interest accruing due half yearly? 14. Reduce to their simplest forms the expressions--(-) t +-h + --m (b) ft of 6 % of 14 T divided by, -T of 299 . (c) f of a pound +- ft of a guinea-f IH of 6. 8d. + /T of a crown. 15. Explain the rules for the multiplication and division of decimals--Divide '015 by-00005, and 313-24 by 249975; showing in the latter case the whole of the circulating portion. 16. Express '378216 as a vulgar fraction in its lowest terms. 17. Express 7. 10d. as the decimal of a pound, and find the value of 03234 of a guinea. 18. Extract the square root of 49660209; also that of 7"O032 to four places of decimals. 19. Find by any rule with which you are acquainted the sum which paid one year hence will be an equivalent for 200/. due now and 600/. due at the end of two years, the rate of interest being 5/., per cent. 20. Reduce to their simplest form the expressions, --(a) x + y x--y x--y x + y x + y x--y X----1/ X-ttm 1/ ()(-8y)( +jr)-(-2y) ( + 3y) + (-)(+ 5y)-x + 2y- 21. Find the greatest common measure of x + x y--2 x-y-+ x y3--y, and x3--6 x1 y 11 xy2--6 y." 22. Write down the expansion of (x + y) How many terms are there in the expansion of (x + y)yw? 23. Extract the square roots of 14 4-6 /5 and 1 + 4 /T. 24. Solve the equations, . x--2, 3x--22, x--3 (a)-n 1-rs--H?--= 4. (d) 2 at8 + 3 x + /2 x + 3 + 16 = 74. 25. A traveller ...