Everyday ArithmeticHoughton Mifflin Company, 1920 - Arithmetic |
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acre acre-foot altitude angle annual average Baldwin Locomotive base bill bonds borrow bought bushel buying called cent certificates charge circle compound interest computing corn cubic date of maturity decimal demand note deposit diameter discount dividends dollars dozen draft equal expenses express Find the amount Find the cost Find the number Find the total fraction Henry Bacon hypotenuse inches income indorsed investment John Wanamaker Jordan Marsh kilowatt hours length Liberty Bond loan measure meter miles mills money order month Multiply number of days oleomargarine paid par value payable pencil person postal savings pound prism profit promissory note pupils purchase radius ratio receipts received rent retail savings bank selling semi-annually shares sides similar triangles sold solve Subtract sum of money term Treasury Savings triangle United week weight
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Page 313 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 319 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle.
Page 312 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30£ square yards = 1 square rod (sq. rd.) 160 square rods = 1 acre (A.) 640 acres = 1 square mile (sq.
Page 313 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 26 - L, fifty ; C, one hundred; D, five hundred; M, one thousand.
Page 322 - ... for the purpose of carrying on a certain kind of business. Stock exchange. A stock exchange is a market where stocks and bonds are bought and sold by brokers. Stockholder. A stockholder is a person owning one or more shares of stock. Straight angle. A straight angle is an angle of 180 degrees. Subtraction. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. Subtrahend. A subtrahend is a number subtracted from a minuend. Sum. A sum is the result found by adding two or more...
Page 222 - To find the area of a circle, multiply the square of the diameter by .7854.
Page 314 - Scale: 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny (d.); 12 pence = 1 shilling (s.) ; 20 shillings — 1 pound (£). 156.
Page 319 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 219 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.