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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acres amount annex barrels of flour bought 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 merchant meters miles mills minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply OPERATION paid payment purchase quotient rate per cent ratio Reduce remainder rods RULE sell simple numbers sold subtract subtrahend sugar tens third thousand thousandths trial divisor Troy weight 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 161 - 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 171 - 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.
Page 73 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them.
Page 92 - 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 165 - ... 3. A pile of wood 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high, contains 1 cord ; and a cord foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile.
Page 89 - 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 326 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 169 - DRY MEASURE 2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts =1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu...
Page 272 - 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.