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12 days 30 days 80 feet long acres answer balls contained barrels barter bbls bought breadth broadcloth build a wall bushels bushels of oats circumference cloth cost decimal denomination diameter distance divided dividend divisor dollars DRY MEASURE equal EXAMPLES federal money feet high feet wide find those numbers fraction frustrum gain gallons given number globe hhds hogsheads horses consume hundred hypotenuse lars left hand side Leghorn length lever MEASURE merchant miles months Multiply number of balls pence piasters piece pounds proportion quotient Reduce remainder Required the area Required the cost Required the interest Required the number right hand side rods Rule sell shillings slant height sold Spanish dollars square of sum square root subtract sugar Suppose tare Tare and Tret thick tons TROY WEIGHT weight whole numbers width wine worth yards cost yards of cloth
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Page 26 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 109 - CASE I. When it is required to find how many of the first sort of coin, weight or measure, mentioned in the question, are equal to a given quantity of the last.
Page 25 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Page 15 - Place the subtrahend or less number, under the minuend or greater, and subtract units from units, tens from tens, and so on. If any figure of the subtrahend be greater than the corresponding one of the minuend, borrow ten...
Page 32 - RULE.* 1. Place the numbers so that those of the same denomination may stand directly under each other.
Page 97 - If 248 men, in 5 days of 11 hours each, dig a trench 230 yards long, 3 wide and 2 deep ; in how many days of 9 hours each, will 24 men dig a trench of 420 yards long, 5 wide and 3 deep ? Ans.
Page 230 - D then struck :} of what A and B last acquired, out of their hands ; they, with difficulty, recovered ^ of it in equal shares again, but the other three carried off J apiece of the same.
Page 96 - If 8 men can build a wall 20 feet long, 6 feet high and 4 feet thick, in 12 days ; in what time...
Page 121 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 27 - Minute, . 60 Minutes. ..." 1 Degree, ... " °. 30 Degrees . . . . " 1 Sign, ... " s. 12 Signs, or 360 Degrees, the whole great Circle of the Zodiac.