Excerpt from New Commercial Arithmetic A commercial arithmetic should be comprehensive in its scope, but should contain no complicated or obsolete subjects. It should furnish abundant material for drills in modern business problems, and, by natural and progressive steps in the methods of developing the subjects presented, should cultivate in the student those qualities Of accuracy, rapidity, and self-reliance that will be so valuable to him later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.