A Complete Arithmetic: Uniting Mental and Written Exercises in a Natural System of Instruction

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Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1870 - Arithmetic - 340 pages
 

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Page 21 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another.
Page 27 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 188 - Or, make the given interest the numerator, and the interest of the principal for 1 year at the given rate the...
Page 65 - Multiplying or dividing both Dividend and Divisor by the same number, does not change the Quotient.
Page 253 - The square of a number composed of tens and units is equal to the square of the tens, plus twice the product of the tens by the units, plus the square of the units. tens?
Page 102 - PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 39 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor...
Page 77 - The denominator of a decimal fraction is 1 with as many ciphers annexed as the numerator has places.
Page 85 - Multiply as in whole numbers, and point off as many decimal places in the product as there are decimal places in the multiplicand and multiplier, supplying the deficiency, if any, by prefixing ciphers.
Page 16 - Addition is the process of finding the sum of two or more numbers.

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