Social Arithmetic, Book 1MacMillan, 1926 - Arithmetic |
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asked berries bill bought boys bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents Check your answer chickens clock column corn flakes cost count crops dimes divide divisor dollar dollar sign dozen earn example expenses farmer Figure find the number FLORIAN CAJORI flour fractions girls give glasses hens hogs hours an acre hundred hundred twenty-seven improper fraction inches Jack Jones labor lambs larger number less margin Mary measure Monday month mother multiplication table multiply needed oats ounces peck person Peters picked pints potatoes pounds of live Prob profit quarts of milk quotient raise seed cotton sell sold square feet star shows subtract supply tell things thousand Tom picked Tom's family Tom's house total number truck farm Tuesday Uncle Will received Uncle Will's farm week weigh wheat Woolworth Building write
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Page 275 - Both terms of a fraction may be divided by the same number without changing the value of the fraction.
Page 277 - Thus, -r = — r b nib represents the rule that the numerator and denominator of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without changing its value.
Page 214 - Filene's store in masterpieces are the Woolworth Building in New York City —the tallest building in the world when it was...
Page 268 - The number below the line of a fraction is called the denominator, because it denominates, or names the parts into which the unit is divided.
Page 38 - When a thing is divided into two equal parts, we call each part "one-half" or "I