The young ladies' new guide to arithmetic1858 |
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30 yards aliquot April ARITHMETIC barrel began to reign Berlin wool Bought bush bushels cent cheese Cheshire cheese ciphers contained denomination ditto dividend divisor dominical letter dozen drams DRY MEASURE Easter English epact equal farthings feet find the interest Find the number find the value firkin of butter gallons galls given day given quantity given sum gold golden number guineas half-crowns Henry Henry VIII House of York hundred weight June leap-year London March MEASURE miles millions month multiplicand Multiply nails number answering number of days ounces paid pair pecks pence person pieces pints pounds ten shillings PROOF quarters quarts quotient receipt Received remainder ROBERT GREEN RULE SARAH THOMPSON shil shillings silk silver six ds sixpences Street subtract sugar THOMAS thousand pounds tons TROY WEIGHT weeks wine yards cost
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Page 54 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone : Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 62 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Page 9 - I = One. II = Two. III = Three. IV = Four. V = Five. VI = Six. VII = Seven. VIII = Eight. IX = Nine. X = Ten. XI = Eleven.
Page 44 - PROOF. Multiply the divisor and quotient together, and to the product add the remainder, if any; if the result be equal to the dividend, the work is correct.
Page 50 - APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT 20 grains = 1 scruple. 3 scruples = 1 dram. 8 drams = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Page 62 - Then, if from the nature of the question the number sought should be larger than the third term, place the greater of the two remaining terms for the second term, and the less for the first, but if the...
Page 75 - Multiply the principal by the rate per cent, and divide the product by 100 ; the quotient will be the answer.
Page 9 - XX, Twenty. XXX, Thirty. XL, Forty. L, Fifty. LX, Sixty. LXX, Seventy. LXXX, Eighty. XC, Ninety. C, One hundred.
Page 43 - Find how many times the divisor is contained in the first figure, or figures, of the dividend, and, setting it directly under the dividend, carry the remainder, if any, to the next figure as so many tens.
Page 87 - To find the number of days between the given day of any month, in the same year ; suppose from the 20th of March, to the 24th of August following. Find the number answering to the 24th of August, (viz. 236) from which subtract the number answering to the 20th of March (79) there remains 157 the number required. 4. To find the number of days from a given day of one month, to the given day of another month in the next year ; suppose from the 10th of October, to the 6th of April in the following year....