Colburn's First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction |
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12 dollars 30 dollars 9 dollars analytic induction arithmetic asked the age barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of cider bought broadcloth bushel cost bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents apiece cloth cost contained cost 2 dollars divided dollars a barrel dollars a yard eight dollars eighteen Eleven equal farthings fifths firkins of butter five dollars flour cost Forty-eight Forty-seven four dollars Fourteen gallons gave gills give them apiece half halves horses eat hundred weight improper fraction lars lowest terms metic miles months nails Nineteen oranges cost paid pears pence penny perform piece pints plate ples pound cost provision will serve pupil quarters wide quarts rectangles Reduce rods seven dollars Seventeen sevenths sheep shillings a bushel six cents Sixteen sixths sold solved square subtraction tenths Thirteen three dollars twelve dollars week whole numbers yards cost yards of cloth
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Page 69 - Eleven 11 Twelve 12 Thirteen 13 Fourteen ----------14 Fifteen 15 Sixteen 16 Seventeen --------.17 Eighteen ----------18 Nineteen ----------19 Twenty - '- 20...
Page 117 - It will be seen by the above section, that, if both the numerator and denominator be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction will not be altered...
Page 38 - What cost eight pair of shoes, at three dollars a pair ? 9. What is the value of nine yards of cloth, at six dollars a yard ? 10. If a man travel five miles in an hour, how many miles will he travel in nine hours ) 11. There is an orchard consisting often rows of trees, and nine trees in each row ; how many trees are there in the orchard ? 12.
Page 125 - Table ///.—TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains, gr. make 1 pennyweight. dwt. 20 pennyweights " 1 ounce. oz. 12 ounces
Page 78 - If 9 men can do a piece of work in 8 days, how many men can do the same in 12 days?
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Page 137 - B together can build a boat in 8 days, and with the assistance of C they can do it in 5 days ; how much of it can A and B...
Page 139 - A farmer, being asked how many sheep he had, answered, that he had them in 5 fields ; in the first...
Page 70 - Twenty-three - 23 Twenty-four 24 Twenty-five 25 Twenty-six 26 Twenty-seven - - - - 27 Twenty-eight 28 Twenty-nine ----- 29 Thirty 30 Thirty-one, &c. - - - - 31 Forty 40 Fifty 50 Sixty 60 Seventy ----- 70 Eighty - -' - - - 80 Ninety - 90 One hundred - ... 100 SECTION VI.