The Normal Union Arithmetic: Graded Course, Part 3

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Sower, Potts & Company, 1877 - Arithmetic - 429 pages
 

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Page 406 - 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 346 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 216 - No person shall detain any book longer than four weeks from the time of its being taken from the Library, if notified that the same is wanted by another member, under a penalty of five cents per day, and no volume shall be detained longer than three months at one time under the same penalty. The Librarian shall have power by order of the Library Committee to call in any volume after it has been retained by a member for ten days. On or before the first Wednesday in May, all books...
Page 216 - The Library Committee shall divide the books and other articles belonging to the Library into three classes, namely, (a) those which are not to be removed from the building ; (b) those which may be taken only by written permission of three members of the committee; (c) those which may circulate under the following rules. Members shall be entitled to take from...
Page 306 - Congress assembled, that the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value ; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the .world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 318 - In any proportion, the product of the means equals the product of the extremes.
Page 216 - ... sum fixed by the Library Committee. No person shall lend any book belonging to the Institute, excepting to a member, under a penalty of one dollar for each offence. The Library Committee may allow members to take more than the allotted number of books upon a written application, and may also permit other persons than members to use the Library under such conditions as they may impose. No person shall detain any book longer than four weeks...
Page 253 - Stock is Above Par, or at a premium or advance, when it sells for more than its nominal value.
Page 242 - A picture-dealer sold two pictures for $120 each; on one he gained 25$, and on the other he lost 25$ ; what was his gain or loss?
Page 412 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.

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