TABLE. 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (Ib. ). 2000 pounds = 1 ton (t.). The long ton is used in the United States Custom Houses and in wholesale transactions in iron and coal. 112 pounds Avoirdupois = 1 long hundredweight (cwt.). A Mental Arithmetic - Page 58by George Albert Wentworth - 1895 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1866 - 184 pages
...what remains ? Section XXXVXI. WEIGHT. 88. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. This weight is used for weighing almost all articles except gold, silver, and precious stones. TABLE. 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound, . . . . Ib. 100 pounds = 1 hundred weight, cwt. 20 hundred weight = 1 ton, T. NOTE. By the above scale of weights... | |
| Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1873 - 260 pages
...sail 3744 miles, if it sail at the rate of 12 miles an hour? LESSON IX. 1 m. I tt>. I dr. Art. 96. Avoirdupois Weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and the precious stones. The denominations are drams, ounces, pounds, hundred-weights, and tons. Table.... | |
| Jerome Bonaparte Washington - United States - 1876 - 970 pages
...latter). The Superintendent of the Coast Survey is ex-officio Superintendent of Weights and Measures. Avoirdupois weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and precious stones. The pound of this weight is divided into 16 ounces, and one ounce into 16 drachms. One hundred pounds... | |
| Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1876 - 236 pages
...75 times a minute, how many times will it beat in 5 weeks? DENOMINATE NUMBERS. LESSON IX. Art. 118. Avoirdupois Weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and the precious stones. The denominations are drams, ounces, pounds, hundred-weights, and tons. 16 drams... | |
| Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1883 - 282 pages
...it sail at the rate of 12 miles an hour? How many weeks? LESSON XXXVII. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT ART. 116. Avoirdupois Weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and precious stones. The denominations are ounces, pounds, hundred-weights, and tons. TABLE. 16 ounces (oz.) . . are 1 pound... | |
| Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1883 - 368 pages
...It is also called an Invoice. DENOMINATE NUMBERS. MEASURES OF WEIGHT. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. ART. 139. Avoirdupois Weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and the precious stones. The denominations are ounces (oz.), pounds (lb.), hundred-weights (cwt.), and... | |
| Charles Austin Hobbs - Arithmetic - 1889 - 362 pages
...= 1 scruple (3). 3 scruples = 1 dram (3). 8 drams = 1 ounce ( 3 ) . 12 ounces = 1 pound (lb.). 59. Avoirdupois Weight is used in weighing all articles...except gold, silver, and precious stones. TABLE. 16 drams (dr.) = 1 ounce (oz.). 16 ounces = 1 pound (Ib.). 100 pounds = 1 hundred-weight (cwt.). 20 hundred-weight... | |
| Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1890 - 178 pages
...and May? 21. A man is 80 years of age : how many days has he lived, allowing 365 J days to the year? AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. Avoirdupois Weight is used in...articles except gold, silver, and precious stones. The denominations are ounces, pounds, hundred-weights, and tons. TABLE. 16 ounces (oz.) . . . are 1... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1893 - 242 pages
...3 5 Subtract : 10. 11. 12. bu. pks. qin. bu. pkB. qte. bu. pks. qte. 522 812 150 25 317 433 136 37 AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. Avoirdupois Weight is used in...stones. TABLE. »•£•'< 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (lb.). 2000 pounds = 1 ton (t.). The long ton is used in the United States Custom Houses and in wholesale... | |
| John Williston Cook, Nebraska C. Cropsey - Arithmetic - 1893 - 316 pages
...gills to gallons. 5. Reduce 25 gal. 1 pt. to gills. Reduce 19 gallons to pints. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. 8. Avoirdupois Weight is used in weighing all articles except gold, silver, and precious stones. The denominations are ounces, pounds, htindred-weights, and tons. 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (Ib.).... | |
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