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12 cents 12 inches 5-cent piece acres barrel BOARD FOOT boxes bushel bushels of wheat called carpet cents a pound cents a yard contained Copy corn Count backwards cube cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches dealer bought decimal places decimal point denominator dime divided divisor dollars dots dozen eggs DRY MEASURE earn equal figures in place Find the cost Find the number find the weight foot four gallon grains horses hundredths improper fraction inches long long ton measure miles milk million missing numbers months Multiply NOTE Number of Days oats Oral Exercise ounces paid pecks pennyweight pints potatoes pounds of sugar proper figures quarts quotient Read Exercise Reduce rings rows short ton square inches square yards strips Subtraction supplying the missing TABLE tenths thousand thousandths Troy weight week weigh wheat whole number wide written
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Page 191 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 199 - LENGTH 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.) 5| yards = 1 rod (rd.) 320 rods = 1 mile (mi.) 1 mile = 1,760 yd.
Page 184 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Page 169 - Write the numbers so that units of the same order « stand in the same column, and add as in addition of whole numbers.
Page 179 - Ex. 31, and knowing that copper is 8.95 times as heavy as water, what is the weight of a cubic foot of copper ? 35.
Page 209 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 147 - To multiply a fraction by a whole number. Multiply the numerator, or divide the denominator by the whole number.
Page 65 - Multiplication is the process of taking a number as many times as there are units in another number.
Page 73 - At 8 cents a pound, how many pounds of sugar can be bought for 48 cents ? For 50 cents ? For 58 cents ? For 62 cents ? For 64 cents ? 29.
Page 196 - TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.). 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (oz.). 12 ounces = 1 pound (lb.). 351. Apothecaries' weight is used in mixing medicines and in selling them at retail. APOTHECARIES