Business Arithmetic

Front Cover
American Book Company, 1891 - Business mathematics - 224 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 76 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 13 - This textbook may be borrowed for two weeks, with the privilege of renewing it once. A fine of five cents a day is incurred by failure to return a book on the date when it is due. The Education Library is open from 9 to 5 daily except Saturday when it closes at 12.30.
Page 173 - On or before one year after date, for value received, we or either of us promise to pay to the order of CW McKee at the Merchants...
Page 73 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30j square yards = 1 square rod (sq. rd.) 160 square rods = 1 acre (A.) 640 acres = 1 square mile (sq.
Page 23 - To divide by 10, 100, &c., is simply cutting off as many figures from the right of the dividend as there are ciphers in the divisor.
Page 46 - A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit...
Page 50 - To reduce fractions to the least common denominator. The Least Common Denominator of two or more fractions is the least denominator to which they can all be reduced, and it must be the least common multiple of the lowest denominators.
Page 43 - Mnltiple of two or more numbers is the least number that...
Page 22 - Rule. — I. Write the divisor at the left of the dividend, with a line between them.

Bibliographic information