Colburn's First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction1849 - Mental arithmetic - 160 pages |
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100 dollars 12 dollars 30 dollars 9 dollars 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 examples farthings fifths firkins of butter five dollars flour cost Forty-eight Forty-seven four dollars fourteen fourths gallons gave gills give them apiece half halves horses eat hundred weight improper fraction lars Lessons let the teacher lowest terms miles months nails Nineteen Ninety-seven oranges cost pence piece pine apple pints pound cost provisions will serve pupil quarters wide quarts Reduce rods SECTION seven dollars Seventeen sevenths Seventy-nine sheep shillings a bushel six cents Sixteen sixths sold tenths thirds Thirteen three dollars twelve dollars Twenty-seven week whole numbers wine yards cost yards of cloth
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