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12 cents 20 cents 50 cents 9 cents acres acres of land apples barrels of flour blocks boys bushels cents a pound containing cords of wood Count cube cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches DICTATION EXERCISES difference dimes Divide dividend divisor dollars DRILL TABLE earn equal Express factors farmer sold figures fourths fraction gallons gave give the sum horses hundred hundredths hundredweight inside column marbles measures miles minuend Multiply Name open book ORAL AND SLATE ORAL EXERCISES ORAL SOLUTION oranges order of units paid pecks quotient Read each number Read rapidly Read the following rods Roman numerals sheep sight signs SLATE EXERCISES slate or paper square mile subtract subtrahend tens tenths thousand tons of coal trees wheat whole number wide worth Write WRITTEN EXERCISES WRITTEN SOLUTION yards of cloth
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Page 169 - 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...
Page 168 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 8 - Multiplication is the process of taking one of two numbers as many times as there are units in the other.
Page 139 - ... as many decimal places as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor, prefixing ciphers to the quotient, if necessary.
Page 8 - Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another of the same kind. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient.
Page 167 - TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.). 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (oz.). 12 ounces = 1 pound (lb.). 351. Apothecaries' weight is used in mixing medicines and in selling them at retail. APOTHECARIES
Page 167 - Weight is used by apothecaries and physicians in compounding dry medicines. TABLE. 20 Grains (gr.} = 1 Scruple, . . sc., or 3. 3 Scruples = 1 Dram, . . dr., or 3 . 8 Drams = 1 Ounce, . . oz., or § . 12 Ounces = 1 Pound, . . Ib., or ft,.
Page 155 - If 4 firkins of butter cost 26 dollars, what will 7 firkins cost ? 15. If 3 men can do a piece of work in 7 days, how long will it take 1 man to do it? How long would it take 4 men ? 16.
Page 30 - In an orchard there are 16 rows of trees and 10 trees in each row; how many trees are there in the orchard ? 11.
Page 167 - Avoirdupois Weight is used for all the ordinary purposes of weighing. TABLE. 16 Ounces (m.) = 1 Pound . . . Ib. 100 Pounds = 1 Hundredweight cwt 20 cwt., or 2000 Ib.
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| Title | Fish's Arithmetic Number One: Oral and Written ... Volume 1 of Fish's Arithmetic Number One[-two]: Oral and Written, Daniel W. Fish Fish's new arithmetical series, Daniel W. Fish Robinson's mathematical series Robinson's series Series of mathematics, Horatio Nelson Robinson |
| Author | Daniel W. Fish |
| Publisher | American Book Company, 1883 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 170 pages |
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