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 common fraction contained cords of wood cost cube cubic currency decimal currency decimal places decimal point discount Divide dividend division dollars dry measure equal exact divisor EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE feet figure gain gallons Give analysis Give explanation given number gold greatest common divisor Hence hundred hundredths improper fraction inches integers interest invested least common denominator least common multiple lowest terms meters miles mills minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply OPERATION paid payment purchase quotient rate per cent ratio receive Reduce remainder rods RULE sell simple numbers sold subtract subtrahend sugar tens tenths third thousand thousandths trial divisor Troy weight units weight whole number worth Write yards of cloth