A Treatise on Arithmetic: Combining Analysis and Synthesis, Adapted to the Best Mode of Instruction in Common Schools and Academies |
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3d Principal acres altitude amount angle annex annuity arithmetical series base Bought breadth bushels cent ciphers circle circumference composite number compound interest compound number contain continued product cords cost cube root cubic decimal fraction diameter Divide dividend divisible divisor dollars dominical letter equal equated example farthings feet long figure frustum gain gallon given numbers greatest common measure Hence higher denomination hight hundred inches least common multiple length lower denomination marked price miles minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply NOTE number of terms OPERATION payable payment pound present worth prime factors prime numbers PROB proportion quotient radius ratio Reduce rods rule RULE.-Divide RULE.-Multiply side simple fraction sold solid sphere square root subtract subtrahend surface tens thick thousandths trial divisor triangle Troy weight units vulgar fraction weight whole number yards
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Page 46 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty.one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty.eight; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
Page 28 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 78 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Page 82 - Therefore, multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value.
Page 212 - The square root of a number is one of its two equal factors.
Page 207 - A and B have the same income; A saves £ of his ; but B, by spending $ 30 per annum more than A, at the end of 8 years finds himself $ 40 in debt ; what is their income, and what does each spend per .annum ? Ans.
Page 53 - The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of them.
Page 244 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 35 - To divide by 10, 100, &c., we simply cut off as many figures from the right of the dividend as there are ciphers in the divisor.
Page 70 - Now .} of f- is a compound fraction, whose value is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.