A Treatise on Arithmetic ...Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, 1872 |
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2d Principal acres altitude amount angle annex annuity ARITHMETIC arithmetical series base Bought bushels cent centimeters ciphers circle circumference compound interest contains continued product cords cost cube root cubic decimal fraction decimeters diameter Divide dividend divisible divisor dollars dominical letter equal equated example feet long figure frustum gain gallons given numbers greatest common measure Hence higher denomination hight hundred improper fraction inches interest of $1 least common multiple length lower denomination marked price miles minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply NOTE number of terms OPERATION payment pound present worth prime factors prime numbers PROB proportion quotient radius ratio Reduce remainder rods rule RULE.-Multiply side simple fraction sold solid sphere square root subtract subtrahend surface thick thousandths triangle Troy weight unit vulgar fraction weight whole number wide yards
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Page 28 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 45 - TABLE. 60 Seconds (sec.) make 1 Minute, m. 60 Minutes " 1 Hour, h. 24 Hours
Page 45 - DRY MEASURE 2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts =1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu...
Page 82 - Therefore, multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value.
Page 46 - 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 225 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Page 78 - 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 53 - The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of them.
Page 106 - Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor, but if there are not as many, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers.
Page 35 - To divide by 10, 100, &c., we simply cut off as many figures from the right of the dividend as there are ciphers in the divisor.