The Analysis of Written Arithmetic: Book Second, Designed for Public and Private Schools, Containing Mental, Slate, and Blackboard Exercises

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C. Scribner, 1864 - Arithmetic - 394 pages
 

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Page 352 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 25 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 54 - April ; 5, May ; 6, June ; 7, July ; 8, August ; 9, September ; 10, October ; 11, November ; 12, December.
Page 354 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 295 - At ninety days sight of this first of Exchange, (the second and third of the same date and tenor unpaid,) pay George Lewis, Esq., or order, One Thousand Pounds sterling, with or without farther advice.
Page 89 - Mnltiple of two or more numbers is the least number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder ; thus 30 is the least common multiple of 10 and 15.
Page 300 - RULE.* — Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the true time required.
Page 45 - Weight is used by apothecaries and physicians in compounding dry medicines. TABLE. 20 Grains (gr.} = 1 Scruple, . . sc., or 3. 3 Scruples = 1 Dram, . . dr., or 3 . 8 Drams = 1 Ounce, . . oz., or § . 12 Ounces = 1 Pound, . . Ib., or ft,.
Page 51 - A pile of wood 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high, contains 1 cord ; and a cord foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile.
Page 349 - Multiply the true divisor by the last root figure, subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder annex the next period for a new dividend.

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