Robinson's Progressive Practical Arithmetic: Containing the Theory of Numbers in Connection with Concise Analytic and Synthetic Methods of Solution and Designed as a Complete Text-book on this Science for Common Schools and Academies |
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amount annex barrels of flour bushels bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents a pound ciphers column common fraction contained cords of wood cost cube cubic decimal currency decimal places decimal point discount Divide dividend division dollars dry measure equal exact divisor EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE expressed feet figure gain gallons Give explanation given number greatest common divisor Hence horses hundred hundredths improper fraction inches integers interest invested least common denominator least common multiple less lowest terms meters miles mills minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply OPERATION paid payment proper fraction purchase quantity quotient rate per cent ratio receive Reduce remainder rods RULE sell simple numbers sold square subtract subtrahend sugar tens tenths third thousand thousandths tons units weight whole number worth Write yards of cloth
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Page 48 - Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another.
Page 157 - 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 250 - RULE. Divide the given amount by the amount of $1 for the given time and rate, and the quotient will be the principal required.
Page 278 - In every proportion the product of the extremes is equal to the product of the means. Thus, in the proportion 3 : 5 : : 6 : 10 we have 3 x 10 = 5 x 6.
Page 268 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 167 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one. Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 73 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them.
Page 90 - 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 87 - To reduce fractions to their lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other; that is, when both terms have no common divisor. 1. Reduce the fraction £§ to its lowest terms.
Page 325 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.