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acres altitude amount angle annual bank base bill bought bushels called cent circle circumference commission Construct contain cost cubic decimal Deduct diameter difference discount distance Divide dollars Draw equal Examination Exercises Express face feet feet long feet wide fence field figures Find five foot four fraction gain gallons Give Gold height horses hundred inches interest June length less longitude loss March Mark measures meters miles minutes months Multiply oblique paid parallel payment perpendicular person piece places pounds Principal prism Problems proceeds profit pyramid radius ratio receive Reduce remainder respectively right-angled rods Selling price share side silver Slate sold sphere square surface term third thousand triangle volume weighing wide worth yards
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Page 806 - Time 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day (da.) 7 days = 1 week (wk.) 365 days = 1 common year (yr.) 366 days = 1 leap year 12 months (mo.) = 1 year 10 years = 1 decade 10 decades or \ , , , „ , 1=1 century (cen. or U.) 100 years / J v ' Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, To which we twenty-eight assign, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 805 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal...
Page 809 - THE UNITED STATES RULE. Find the amount of the principal to the time when the payment, or sum of the payments, equals or exceeds the interest. From this amount deduct the payment or sum of the payments.
Page 805 - TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) 1 pennyweight (pwt.) 20 pennyweights, 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces . . . 1 pound (Ib.) Troy weight is used in weighing gold, silver, precious stones, etc. APOTHECARIES
Page 722 - MEASURE. 10 millimeters (mm.) = 1 centimeter (cm.) 10 centimeters = 1 decimeter (dm.) 10 decimeters = 1 meter (m.) 10 meters = 1 dekameter (Dm.) 10 dekameters = 1 hektometer (Hm.) 10 Hektometers = 1 kilometer (Km.) 10 kilometers = 1 myriameter (Mm.) 1 meter = 39.37 inches.
Page 805 - APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT. 20 grains (gr) . 1 scruple (3) 3 scruples 1 dram (3) 8 drams 1 ounce ( 5 ) 12 ounces .... 1 pound (ft) Apothecaries' weight is used in prescriptions. Drugs are bought and sold by avoirdupois weight. The grain, the ounce, and the pound apothecaries' weight are the same as the corresponding denominations of troy weight.
Page 585 - First of Exchange (Second unpaid), pay to the order of John W.
Page 791 - Prisms may be either right or oblique. The convex surface of a right prism consists of rectangles. Fig. 1 is a right prism; Fig. 2 is an oblique prism. NOTE. — When a prism is spoken of, a right prism is meant unless the word oblique is used. The altitude of a prism is the perpendicular distance between the bases. AD, BF, or CE is the altitude in Fig.
Page 532 - How much will it cost to plaster the walls and ceiling of a room 16 ft. 3' long, 14 ft. 2
Bibliographic information
| Title | Higher Arithmetic |
| Author | John Henry Walsh |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | D.C. Heath & Company, 1893 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2007 |
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