Graded Work in Arithmetic, Book 8American Book Company, 1902 |
Common terms and phrases
9 mo acres altitude B's share base bill of exchange bonds bought brokerage cash cent centimeters cipher circle circumference compound interest cone contains cube root cubic foot decimal decimeters dekaliters dekameters denomination diameter discount Divide dividend DRY MEASURE equal factors equator Find the amount Find the area Find the cost Find the number Find the rate Find the square Find the value frustum gain grams Hawaiian Islands hektoliters hektometer hypotenuse inches income invested kilometers larger number longitude MEASURE millimeters minute hands multiply myriameter number consisting number equals o'clock OPERATION paid par value payment payt perfect square piece of land premium present worth ratio rectangle rectangular rhombus sell side slant height smaller number sold specific gravity sphere square pyramid square root subtract three figures trapezoid trial divisor triangle volume weighs wide yard
Popular passages
Page 151 - 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 120 - OF WEIGHT 10 milligrams (mg.) = 1 centigram (eg.) 10 centigrams = 1 decigram (dg.) 10 decigrams = 1 gram (g.) 10 grams = 1 dekagram (Dg.) 10 dekagrams = 1...
Page 119 - CAPACITY 10 milliliters (ml.) = 1 centiliter (cl.) 10 centiliters = 1 deciliter (dl.) 10 deciliters = 1 liter (1) 10 liters = 1 dekaliter (Dl.) 10 dekaliters = 1 hectoliter (HI.) 10 hectoliters = 1 kiloliter (Kl.) MEASURES OF WEIGHT 10 milligrams (mg.) = 1 centigram (eg.) 10 centigrams = 1 decigram (dg.) 10 decigrams = 1 gram (g.) 10 grams...
Page 113 - Measures of Length 10 millimeters (mm) =1 centimeter cm 10 centimeters =1 decimeter dm 10 decimeters =1 meter m 10 meters =1 dekameter Dm 10 dekameters =1 hektometer Hm 10 hektometers =1 kilometer Km...
Page 95 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 88 - Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Page 128 - Gravity of a substance is its weight compared with the weight of an equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard.
Page 19 - What is the interest of $ 81, for 2 years 14 days, at £ per cent. ? £ per cent. ? £ per cent. ? 2 per cent. ? 3 per cent. ? 4£ per cent. ? 5 per cent. ? 6 per cent. ? 7 per cent. ? 7£ per cent. ? 8 per cent.
Page 65 - The square root of a number is one of its two equal factors. Thus, 4 is the square root of 16.
Page 132 - The head of a fish is 12 inches long, the tail is as long as the head + £ of the body, and the body is as long as the head and tail ; what is the length of the fish?