The Complete Arithmetic: Oral and Written, Volume 1

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Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1874 - Arithmetic
 

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Page 87 - Divide the product of the remaining factors of the dividend by the product of the remaining factors of the divisor, and the result will be the quotient.
Page 194 - 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 182 - 1 Square Chain . sq. ch. 10 Square Chains " 1 Acre A. 640 Acres " 1 Square Mile . . sq. mi. 36 Square Miles (6 miles square)
Page 60 - RULE. I. Cut off the ciphers from the right of the divisor, and as many figures from the right of the dividend. II. Divide the remaining figures of the dividend by the remaining figures of the divisor, for the final quotient.
Page 196 - COUNTING. 12 units or things make 1 dozen. 12 dozen " 1 gross. 12 gross " 1 great gross. 20 units
Page 46 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 152 - RULE. I. Write the subtrahend under the minuend, so that units of the same denomination shall stand under each other.
Page 154 - RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors.
Page 96 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 196 - The terms folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, etc., indicate the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper is folded. A sheet folded in 2 leaves is called a Folio. A sheet folded in 4 leaves...

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