A Textbook on Sheet-metal Pattern Drafting, Volume 1Internat. Textbook Company, 1901 - Metal-work |
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14 inches altitude arc A B area of base axis border line called chord circumference compound number cone is equal contains convex surface correct to four cube cubic foot decimal places distance divided dividend division divisor drawn edge ellipse entire surface EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE Find the area find the number Find the volume fraction frustum given line given number Hence horizontal line hundredweight hypotenuse inches long intersecting kilogram length of arc line A B measure meter metric system minuend number of degrees number of gallons number of inches number of units oblate spheroid obtained by multiplying paper parallel pencil perpendicular Plate polygon pounds prism product obtained prolate spheroid quotient radius rectangle regular polygon right angle right triangle ruler scale side slant height SOLUTION sphere square inches square root straight line subtracting subtrahend trapezium vertex weight
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Page 13 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty.one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty.eight; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
Page 1 - 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 12 - 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...
Page 27 - RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately ; multiply the half -sum and the three remainders together ; the square root of the product is the area.
Page 1 - If a product consists of equal factors, it is called a power of one of those equal factors, and one of the equal factors is called a root of the product. The power and the root are named according to the number of equal factors in the product. Thus, 3X3, or 9, is the second power, or square, of 3; 3 X 3 X 3, or...
Page 13 - The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and its height: A = bx h.
Page 9 - To multiply a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier ; and if there be not places enough in the number, annex ciphers.
Page 8 - An improper fraction, is one in which the numerator is equal- to, or greater than the denominator.
Page 17 - In any right triangle the perpendicular from the vertex of the right angle on the hypotenuse divides the triangle into two triangles each similar to the given triangle.