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a-day A's share aliquot avoir Berwick-upon-Tweed bill Bought breadth brok bush bushels calculate cash ciphers COMPOUND contains Convert cost 11 cube root Cubic decimal discount divide the product dividend DIVISION divisor draft 1 lb exchange EXERCISES feet figures find the interest Find the product find the value firlots gain per cent gallons galls gills given number halfp hundred improper fraction inches integer least common multiple MENTAL CALCULATION miles Millions milrei mixed number months multiply NEIL GOW Ounce peck pence penny pints pounds pounds Scots pounds sterl prime cost profit or loss proportion pupil quantity quotient rate per cent Reduce Reduction ascending rood RULE RULE.-Multiply Scotch acre shillings square root sterling money SUBTRACTION tare teaches to find troy TROY WEIGHT VULGAR FRACTIONS weighing 1 cwt weight whole numbers
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Page 14 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 14 - SQUARE MEASURE 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30| square yards = 1 square rod (sq. rd.) 160 square rods = 1 acre (A.) 640 acres = 1 square mile (sq.
Page 101 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 15 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 37 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value.
Page 70 - Multiply the divisor, thus increased, by the last figure of the root; subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend. 5. Double the whole root already found for a new divisor, and continue the operation as before, until all the periods are brought down. NOTE.
Page 25 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Page 36 - RULE. Multiply each quantity by its rate ; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the quantities, or the whole composition, and the quotient will be the rate of the compound required.
Page 13 - TABLE. 16 drams, (drs.) make 1 ounce, - marked - oz. 16 ounces ----- 1 pound, - - - - - ' Ib. 28 pounds ----- 1 quarter, ----- qr. 4 quarters ----- 1 hundred weight, - - cwt. 20 hundred weight - - 1 ton, ------ T.
Page 38 - Divide by any number that will divide two or more of the given numbers without a remainder, and set the quotients, together with the undivided numbers, in a line beneath.