The Natural Arithmetic: Book I-[III], Book 2American Book Company, 1901 - Arithmetic |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
12 cents 12 feet 50 cents 9 ft acres altitude apples base bought bushels carpet cents a pound cents a square cents a yard circle circumference Construct contains cube cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches Decimal Fractions diameter distance equal equilateral triangle factors feet long feet wide Find the area Find the number gain gallons half hundredths hypotenuse improper fractions inches long inches wide isosceles triangle length Measure miles an hour milk Miscellaneous Problems mixed numbers Multiply oranges Original Problems ounces parallelogram pecks piece Problems Make problems quarts rectangle right triangle rods long rods wide sell side slant height sold specific gravity square feet square foot square inches square miles square rods square yard Subtract tenths third thousandths vertex walk weighs whole number yard wide yards long
Popular passages
Page 248 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30j square yards = 1 square rod (sq.
Page 250 - Time 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day (da.) 7 days = 1 week (wk.) 365 days = 1 common year (yr.) 366 days = 1 leap year...
Page 249 - 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 248 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 250 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Page 250 - NUMBERS. 12 units = 1 dozen. 12 dozen — 1 gross. 12 gross = 1 great gross. 20 units = 1 score. PAPER. 24 sheets = 1 quire. 20 quires = 1 ream. 2 reams = 1 bundle. 5 bundles = 1 bale.
Page 249 - Weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and precious stones. 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (Ib.). 100 pounds = 1 hundredweight (cwt.). 2000 pounds = 1 ton (T.). The long ton is used in the United States customhouses and in wholesale transactions in iron and coal.
Page 163 - If two men start from the same place, and travel in opposite directions, the one traveling at the rate of 3 miles an hour, and the other at the rate of 4 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at the end of 5 hours ? 11.
Page 218 - In any right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.