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| Title | Essentials of Business Arithmetic |
| Author | George Henry Van Tuyl |
| Publisher | American Book Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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