The Rudiments of Written Arithmetic: Containing Slate and Black-board Exercises for Beginners and Designed for Graded Schools |
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12 cents 12 leaves 50 cents 9 cents acres acres of land ANALYSIS annex barrels of flour bushels of corn bushels of wheat butter cents a pound ciphers column common denominator common fraction contained cords of wood currency decimal places decimal point dimes dividend division divisor dollar a bushel dollar a yard dollars dollars a barrel Dry Measure equal EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE expressed factors figure fractional unit gallons given number grocer bought hogshead horses hundred hundredths improper fraction inches integer leaves 9 long ton lowest terms Measure miles mills minuend mixed number molasses month multiplicand Multiply paid pints pounds of sugar quarts quotient Reduce remainder right hand simple numbers sold square miles Subtract subtrahend tens tenths thousand thousandths United States money weighing whole numbers worth Write yards of cloth
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Page 142 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 105 - The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit, 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 6. To read decimals requires two numerations ; first...
Page 114 - RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off' as many places for decimals as Che decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 41 - The number thus added to itself, or the number to be multiplied, is called the multiplicand. The number which shows how many times the multiplicand is to be taken, or the number by which we multiply, is called the multiplier.
Page 81 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Page 60 - PROOF. Multiply the divisor and quotient together, and to the product add the remainder, if any ; if the result be equal to the dividend, the work is correct.
Page 156 - Write the subtrahend under the minuend, so that units of the same denomination shall stand under each other. II. Beginning at the right hand, subtract each denomination separately, as in simple numbers. III. If the number of any denomination in 1he subtrahend exceed that of the same denomination in the minuend, add to the number in the...
Page 144 - TABLE. 12 Units = 1 Dozen . . . doz. 12 Dozen = 1 Gross . . . gro. 12 Gross = 1 Great Gross . G. gro. 20 Units = 1 Score . . . sc.
Page 195 - The Liter is the unit of capacity, both of Liquid and of Dry Measures, and is a vessel whose volume is equal to a cube whose edge is one-tenth of a meter, equal to 1.05673 qt.
Page 112 - RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors.