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acres added Addition allowed amount annexed answer barrels calculated called carry cents Change common compound consists contained cost course cubic cyphers decimal denominator divide dividend division divisor dollars employed equal example expressed factors feet figure Find the interest five four fourth Fraction gain gals give given greater hand Hence hundred inches increase leave less letters likewise manner measure mixed mode months multiply necessary NOTE observed obtain paid payment performed persons pound PRACTICE present principal proportion pupil quantity question quotient ratio received Reduce remainder repetend result rods root rule seen shillings Simple solid square subtract suppose tens tenths term thing third units weight whole whole number wide worth write written yards
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Treatise on Arithmetic: Designed Particularly as a Text for Classes in which the Principles of the Science are Inductively Developed ... |
| Author | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard |
| Publisher | Packard & Butler, 1830 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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