The Rudiments of Arithmetic: Embracing Mental and Written Exercises for Beginners |
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Arithmetic barrels of flour bought bushels cents a bushel cents a pound ciphers column common fraction Compound Numbers CONCLUSION.-Therefore contained cost decimal fraction decimal places decimeters denom denomination dimes Divide dividend dollars equal EXAMPLE.-What EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE feet figure five four gallons Give the rule Give the table grains grams greatest common divisor hectoliter Hence hogsheads hundredths hundredweight improper fraction inches kilogram least common multiple liters lowest terms marbles measure MENTAL EXERCISES Metrical System miles millions mills minuend mixed number MODEL SOLUTION multiplicand Multiply Myriameter notation OPERATION ounces pennyweights period pints prime factors proper fraction quarts QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW quotient Ray's remainder rods seven hundred Simple Numbers square meters square yards stere subtrahend tens tenths thousand trillions Troy Weight weighing whole number wine worth Write
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Page 128 - Mnltiple of two or more numbers is the least number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder ; thus 30 is the least common multiple of 10 and 15.
Page 3 - L, fifty ; C, one hundred; D, five hundred; M, one thousand.
Page 118 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 104 - 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 154 - 6 27 685 The denominator to a decimal fraction, although not ex-f pressed, is always understood, and is 1 with as many ciphers annexed as there are places in the numerator.
Page 132 - An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to, or greater than its denominator ; as, $, -f . A mixed number is a whole number and a fraction expressed together; as, 4f, 25-ht.
Page 157 - RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors.
Page 85 - TABLE. 2 pints pt. make 1 quart, marked qt. 8 quarts - 1 peck, - pk. 4 pecks - 1 bushel, - bu.
Page 36 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another.
Page 53 - When there is a remainder after dividing the last figure of the dividend, write it with the divisor underneath, with a line between them, at the right of the quotient.