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acres altitude assessed valuation bank board foot bought called carriage cent of profit circle circumference city lot commission merchant common fraction compound interest cube cubic dealer decimal diameter Dingley Tariff discount Divide dividend divisor dollar Draw equation Express farm farmer feet figure Find the amount Find the area Find the cost Find the interest Find the number Frank Adams gain per cent hundredweight improper fractions inches JONES'S ESSEN land least common multiple length list price measure meridian meter mixed numbers month multiplied number of days number of square Oral Exercises paid parallelogram payment premium prime meridian principal meridian prism pupils quotient rate of taxation ratio rectangle regular polygon right angles right triangle salary selling price sides sold square root square units Subtract taxes township triangular prism Write Written Exercises yard
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Page 274 - 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 276 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel.
Page 207 - Which proves that the square of a number composed of tens and units contains, the square of the tens plus twice the product of the tens by the units, plus the square of the units.
Page 77 - Cubic Measure 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 152 - To find the number of board feet in a piece of lumber, multiply the...
Page 273 - Square Measure 144 square inches = 1 square foot 9 square feet = 1 square yard 30J square yards = 1 square rod 160 square rods = 1 acre 640 acres = 1 square mile Cubic Measure 1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard 128 cubic feet...
Page 72 - SQUARE MEASURE 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet — 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30^ square yards = 1 square rod (sq. rd.) 160 square rods = 1 acre (A.) 640 acres = 1 square mile (sq.
Page 93 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter the value of the fraction.
Page 196 - Hence, the area of a trapezoid is equal to the product of its altitude by the line connecting the middle points of the sides which are not parallel.
Page 25 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another.