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12 cents 25 cents 40 cents 50 cents 9 cents acres April barrels of apples barrels of flour bill board foot bought broadcloth Bunker Hill Monument bushels cents a pound cents a quart cents a yard ciphers containing cord feet cords of wood cubic feet decimal point denominator Divide dividend divisor dollars earn feet long feet wide figures Find the amount Find the sum following numbers fraction gain gallons horse hundredths improper fraction inches thick inches wide July lowest terms mills Minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply number of days ORAL EXERCISES oranges ounces paid pecks piece pounds of sugar pupils quotient receive Reduce remained sell Sept sheep spends square feet square miles square rods square yards Subtract Subtrahend tens tenths thousand thousandths tons of coal units week wood cost worth write WRITTEN EXERCISES yards of carpet yards of cloth
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Page 125 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 57 - If the dividend does not contain the divisor an exact number of times, the part of the dividend which is left is called the REMAINDER.
Page 129 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 124 - ... 640 acres = 1 square foot (sq. ft.}. 1 square yard (sq. yd.). 1 square rod (sq. rd.). 1 acre (a.). 1 square mile (sq. m.).
Page 103 - The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit, 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal.
Page 57 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 123 - Linear Measure 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 feet...
Page 78 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 128 - Dry Measure 2 pints (pt.) =1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts = 1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu.) 2150.42 cu.
Page 76 - The number above the line is called the NUMERATOR, .because it numerates or numbers the parts taken...