An Intellectual Arithmetic: Upon the Inductive Method |
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$4 a yard 12 cents 12 dollars 12 per cent 12 rods 20 cents 9 cents 9 dollars acres apples cost ARITHMETIC barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of apples bushels of corn bushels of oats bushels of wheat cents a pound cents apiece cords of wood Count backward cows divided dollars a barrel dollars a yard earn Eighteen eighths of 24 eleven equal feet fifths flour cost Forty-eight fraction furlongs gain gallons gave gills give half halves horses eat hound interest of $1 less 9 less six LESSON LESSON II lowest terms melon miles miles per hour MINUEND molasses months multiply nine ninths oranges paid peaches pears pecks pennyweights PHILLIPS ACADEMY piece pint pound cost pupil quarts Reduce seven sevenths of 28 sheep six dollars sixths sold Solution square rods subtract tenths third three fourths trees Troy Weight Twelve weeks worth yards of cloth
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Page 100 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty.one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty.eight; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
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Page 171 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 27 - It shows that the number before it is to be divided by the number after it. Thus 6 -i- 2 = 3 is read, 6 divided by 2 is equal to 3.
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