Example 2.
I demand how much I must rebate or discount for 165 Pounds for 9 Months at 8 Pound per Cent. simple or bare In∣terest.
Chamberlain's Arithmetick being a plain and easie explanation of the most useful and necessary art of arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, that the meanest capacity may obtain the knowledge thereof in a very short time : whereunto are added many rules and tables of interest, rebate, purchases, gaging of cask, and extraction of the square and cube roots / composed by Robert Chamberlain, accomptant and practitioner in the mathematicks.
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- Title
- Chamberlain's Arithmetick being a plain and easie explanation of the most useful and necessary art of arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, that the meanest capacity may obtain the knowledge thereof in a very short time : whereunto are added many rules and tables of interest, rebate, purchases, gaging of cask, and extraction of the square and cube roots / composed by Robert Chamberlain, accomptant and practitioner in the mathematicks.
- Author
- Chamberlain, Robert, fl. 1678-1679.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for John Clark ...,
- 1679.
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- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
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"Chamberlain's Arithmetick being a plain and easie explanation of the most useful and necessary art of arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, that the meanest capacity may obtain the knowledge thereof in a very short time : whereunto are added many rules and tables of interest, rebate, purchases, gaging of cask, and extraction of the square and cube roots / composed by Robert Chamberlain, accomptant and practitioner in the mathematicks." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31565.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.
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Page 281
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| l. | s. | d. | |
| Total Sum due is | 165 | 00 | 00 |
| To be paid | 155 | 13 | 02 |
| At 8 l. per Cent. for 9 months is rebated | 9 | 6 | 10 |