The tutor's assistant: being a compendium of arithmetic; and a complete question-book. In five parts. Containing. I. Arithmetic in whole Numbers; being a brief Explanation of all its Rules, in a new and more concise Method than any hither to 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 Routs, after a very plain and Familiar Manner, in which are set down Rules for the easy Calculation of Interest, Annuities, and Pensions in Arrcars, 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

People / Organizations

• Francis Walkingame (Author)
• William Bunce ("printed by")

Imprint

[London]: Printed for the author, by W. Bunce, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and sold by Edward Johnson, in Ave-Maria-Lane, (successor to the late Mr. Dod) and E. Walkingame, in St. Martin's Lane, near Charing-Cross, [1768?]

Publication year

1768-1768

ESTC No.

T188837

Grub Street ID

224546

Description

vii,[5],180p. ; 12⁰

Uncontrolled note

8th ed. = 1770. [1768?] is earliest date known for Edward Johnson