An Intermediate Arithmetic, Uniting Mental and Written Exercises in a Natural System of Instruction

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Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1870 - Arithmetic - 192 pages
 

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Page 65 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another.
Page 120 - To divide a whole number by a fraction, — Multiply the dividend by the denominator of the fraction, and divide the product by the numerator.
Page 90 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor...
Page 99 - 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 80 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 64 - If 2 men start from the same place, and travel in opposite directions ; one at the rate of 3| miles in an hour, and the other 4£...
Page 105 - Divide this by the denominator of each fraction and multiply both terms by the quotient. Addition.
Page 109 - Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and place the difference over the common denominator.
Page 80 - DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of finding one of the equal parts of a number.
Page 38 - Addition is the process of finding the sum of two or more numbers.

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