First Part of the Franklin Written Arithmetic with Supplementary Examples |
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9 hundreds acres acres of land Add the numbers add the products barrels of flour Bunker Hill Monument bushels cents a pound cents a yard cents apiece coins column cords of wood cost cows decimal fractions decimal point dimes Divide Divide D dividend divisor dollars dred DRILL TABLE equal numbers Examples with Decimals Explanation expressed by writing farmer feet Find the difference Find the product five hundred five mills four hundred horse hundred thousand hundredths ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE larger number long division Massachusetts merchant bought miles a day million minuend multiplicand Name the number Nine hundred numbers expressed Oral Exercises paid pair piece pupils quarts remainder Rhode Island sell six hundred square miles subtract subtrahend tens tenth thousand four thousands leaving thousandths trillion United States money week whole number worth write numbers writing a figure Writing the numbers zeros
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Page 34 - The Dividend is the number to be divided. The Divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 50 - A man sold three houses ; for the first he received 2475 dollars, for the second 840 dollars less than he received for the first, and for the third as much as for the other two; how much did he receive for the three ? Ans.
Page 20 - Write the minuend and underneath write the subtrahend, so that units of the same order may be expressed in the same column. Draw a line beneath. 2. Begin with the units of the lowest order to subtract, and proceed to the highest, writing each remainder under the line in its proper place. 3. If any term of the minuend is less than the corresponding term of the subtrahend, add ten to it and then subtract ; but consider that the next term of the minuend IMS been diminished "by one.
Page 12 - From the preceding examples we may derive the following Rule for Addition. 1. Write the numbers to be added so that units of the same order may be expressed in the same column. Draw a line, beneath. 2. Add the units of each order separately, beginning with those of the lowest order.
Page 33 - Fiske receives a salary of $ 1500 a year, pays $ 130 for clothing, $ 275 for other expenses, also $ 6 a week for his board. How much money has he left at the end of the year ? 68. If 768 be one factor, and 861 - 237 the other factor, what is the product ? 69. Smith & Co. consume 74 tons of coal in a year. How much more did they pay for their coal in 1864, when coal was $ 14 a ton, than in 1877, when it was $7 a ton ? 70.
Page 7 - On what principle are all numbers written ? (Art. 21.) What is the use of zeros ? How are the figures used to express a number grouped? Name the first five groups. How do you write large numbers ? (Art. 24.) Illustrate. How do you read a number ? (Art. 27.) Illustrate. What are the terms of a number ? Name the terms of the number 6725. What is the largest number that can be expressed by one figure ? by two figures ? by three figures ? What is the least number of figures that will express units ?...
Page 10 - Drawing a line beneath, and a-.lding the units (thus, 4, 6, 9), we find there are 9 units, which we write under the line in the units' place. Adding the tens (thus, 3, 4), we find there are 4 tens, which we write under the line in the tens
Page 81 - How much will the second earn while the first earns $138 ? 67. If 7 men can do a piece of work in 13 dys., how long will it take 9 men to do the same work ? 68. Divide 90 into two parts proportional to 4 and 6. 69. Divide 300 into two parts such that the first may be to the second as 2 to 5.
Page 23 - ... miles a day ; how far apart will they be at the end of 6 days ? Ans.