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barrel board measure bought called centimeters cistern column common fraction compound interest COMPOUND QUANTITIES contains cube root cubic centimeter cubic foot decimal places decimal point denominator diameter digits discount divided dividend division divisor dollars equal expressed figure Find the cost Find the number Find the product Find the value flour gallons given number Hence horses hour hundred hundredths improper fraction inches integral number invested least common multiple length long ton longitude meter minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply number of days paid payment pounds principal quart quotient rate per cent ratio received rectangular Reduce remainder rods Rule for finding selling sold specific gravity square miles square root subtract subtrahend tens thick thousand thousandths tons units varas weight Wentworth's whole number wide worth write
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Page 181 - Troy Weight. 24 grains (gr.) - 1 pennyweight (dwt.) 20 pennyweights — 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces — 1 pound (1b.).
Page 184 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 174 - 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 184 - 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 132 - When necessary, reduce the fractions to their least common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend, from the numerator of the minuend, and place the difference of the new numerators over the common denominator.
Page 345 - 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 188 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, called the Circumference, all points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the Centre.
Page 166 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq.
Page 86 - If the divisor contains decimal places, we may remove the decimal point from the divisor, provided we carry the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor.
Page 255 - ... equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean. Hence, if three terms of a proportion are given, the fourth may be found. (1...