The Thorndike Arithmetics, Volume 3

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Rand, McNally, 1922 - Arithmetic
 

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Page 115 - To find — The Number of Board Feet in a Piece of Lumber. Multiply the product of its length and width in feet by its thickness in inches.
Page 18 - ... the right of the decimal point as there are decimal places in the divisor. Place the decimal point in the quotient directly over the cross in the dividend.
Page 96 - Get the answers to these problems as quickly as you can. 1. What number subtracted 12 times from 30 will leave a remainder of 6? 2. If a train travels half a mile in a minute, what is its rate per hour? 3. What number minus 16 equals 20? 4. What number doubled equals 2 times 3? 5. If 7 multiplied by some number equals 63, what is the number?
Page 94 - I expect from $5.00, after paying for 5 pounds of coffee at 38 cents a pound? 2. A baseball team played 160 games during the season and won 100 of them. What part of the whole number of games did the team win? 3. If...
Page 257 - Review of Important Principles. From the above exercise we again see the truth of these important principles : Multiplying the numerator of a fraction by any number multiplies the fraction by that number. Dividing the numerator of a fraction by any number divides...
Page 18 - You may obtain as many decimal places as you wish in the quotient by adding zeros to the right in the dividend and then repeating step (C). For each zero you add to the dividend, you need one more decimal place in the quotient. = EXAMPLE 1 Divide .05 into 25. 155.
Page 94 - ... first 29 days of school. How many more letters each day did she read in one book than in the other? . . : 4. The children of a school made small boxes to be filled with candy and given as presents at a school party. 600 were needed. In 4 days grades 3 to 7 made 20, 25, 83, 150, and 150 boxes. The eighth grade agreed to make the rest. How many did the eighth grade make? 5. A girl's record in spelling for 5 days was 19, 18, 20, 16, and 20 words spelled correctly out of 20. If each of the 16 children...

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