A Theoretical and Practical Arithmetic: Designed for Common Schools and Academies |
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20 per cent 9 months acres annexed annuity Avoirdupois bers Boston cents per bushel cents per pound ciphers common difference common fraction complete divisor Complete the square compound interest contained cube root denom denominate numbers denoting diameter Divide division dollars equal EXAMPLES factors farthings federal money gain or loss gain per cent gallon given number greatest common measure hundred hundredths hypothenuse improper fraction inches interest of $1 least common multiple loss per cent lowest denomination mean proportional merchant bought merchant sold miles millionths mills multiplicand Multiply number of terms paid partial dividend payment pence pound sterling present worth prime cost principal quotient ratio remainder rods rule for finding rule for reducing sandths selling shillings square root subtract sugar thousandths trial divisor Troy Weight units weight whole numbers wide Write
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Page 82 - 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.
Page 15 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 218 - ... a descending series. The numbers which form the series are called the terms of the series. The first and last terms are the extremes, and the other terms are called the means.
Page 201 - Multiply the given number into itself, till it is taken as a factor, as many times as there are units in the index of the power to which the number is to be raised.
Page 110 - Write the less compound number under the greater, so that units of the same denomination shall stand in the same column. Subtract as in subtraction of simple numbers.
Page 87 - When the multiplier is 10, 100, 1000, or 1 with any number of ciphers annexed, annex as many ciphers to the multiplicand as there are ciphers in the multiplier, and the multiplicand, so increased, will be the product required.
Page 142 - The rule for casting interest, when partial payments have been made, is to apply the payment, in the first place, to the discharge of the interest then due.
Page 57 - An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to, or greater than its denominator ; as, $, -f . A mixed number is a whole number and a fraction expressed together; as, 4f, 25-ht.
Page 204 - The square of the sum of two numbers is equal to the square of the first number plus twice the product of the first and second number plus the square of the second number.
Page 60 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of...