Felter's New Intermediate Arithmetic: Containing Oral and Written Problems, and Drill Card Exercises

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Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1875 - Arithmetic - 258 pages
 

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Page 232 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 78 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 234 - Scale: 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny (d.); 12 pence = 1 shilling (s.) ; 20 shillings — 1 pound (£). 156.
Page 181 - RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 92 - I. Write the divisor at the left of the dividend as in Short Division. II.
Page 247 - How much will it cost to plaster the walls and ceiling of a room 16 ft. 3' long, 14 ft. 2
Page 209 - To measure a Parallelogram, or long square. RULE. Multiply the length by the breadth, and the product will be the area or superficial content.
Page 131 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 221 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 116 - The greatest common divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder. Thus 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, and 24.

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