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acres annuity average barrels of flour bought bushels called cents a pound circumference cistern coal common fraction compound interest contains cords cube root cubic feet cubic foot decimal point denominator diameter discount dividend divisor dollars equal EXERCISE expressed figures Find the amount Find the cost Find the difference Find the interest Find the number Find the product frustum gallons given number Hence hundred hundredths improper fraction integral number June 16 kilograms least common multiple length long tons longitude marked price meter minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply number of days ounces paid payment pints prime number quarts quotient ratio rectangular Reduce remainder selling Sept short ton sold SOLUTION square miles subtract subtrahend tens term thousand tons units weighs wheat whole number wide worth write WRITTEN yards
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Page 355 - 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.
Page 339 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 268 - Multiply the divisor, thus increased, by the last figure of the root; subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend. 5. Double the whole root already found for a new divisor, and continue the operation as before, until all the periods are brought down. NOTE.
Page 146 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 270 - ... is equal to the square root of the difference of the squares of the hypotenuse and the other side.
Page 159 - 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 158 - Cubic Measure 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) =1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 249 - That is, in any proportion either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme ; and either mean is equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Page 85 - Granite is 2.72 times as heavy as water. Find the weight of a cubic foot of granite. 14. Wrought iron is 7.77 times as heavy as water. Find the weight of a cubic foot of wrought iron. 15. Platinum is 21.841 times as heavy as water, and lead is 11.35 times as heavy as water. How many times as heavy as lead is platinum ? 16. Silver is 10.5 times as heavy as water, and cork is 0.24 as heavy as water. How many times as heavy as cork is silver? 17. A board foot is a board 1 foot long, 1 foot wide, and...
Page 178 - 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 centre.