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30 days acres April April 30 Article August 14 balance barrels bill bushels cents commercial paper commission common fraction compound interest Compound Numbers containing cube root cubic debts decimal denominator deposited discount Divide dividend divisor dollars draft dry measure equal feet Find the amount Find the cost Find the interest Find the value gain or loss gallons Gold greatest common divisor improper fraction inches insured invested invoice January July June June 16 least common least common multiple longitude March marked price Mdse Measure merchandise mixed number months Multiply October 30 ORAL PROBLEMS owed partners payable payment pounds premium principal profit quotient received Reduce selling price shares sold SOLUTION subtract term Troy Weight United weight wheat wide withdrew worth yards
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Page 131 - 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 to four.
Page 107 - TABLE. 10 mills (m.) make 1 cent, ct. 10 cents " 1 dime, d. 10 dimes " 1 dollar, $. 10 dollars " 1 eagle, E .. UNIT EQDIYAI/ENTS.
Page 40 - Multiplying or dividing both Dividend and Divisor by the same number does not change the Quotient.
Page 123 - 1 Square Chain . sq. ch. 10 Square Chains " 1 Acre A. 640 Acres " 1 Square Mile . . sq. mi. 36 Square Miles (6 miles square)
Page 331 - Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Page 68 - To divide an integer by a fraction. 1. At f of a dollar a yard, how many yards of cloth can be bought for 12 dollars?
Page 128 - DRY MEASURE 2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts =1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu...
Page 285 - June 20, 1874, requiring every national bank to keep in lawful money with the Treasurer of the United States a sum equal to 5 per cent. of its circulation, to be held and used for the redemption of its...
Page 349 - British dollar" has the same legal value as the Mexican dollar in Hongkong, the Straits Settlements, and Labuan...
Page 338 - The Radius is a straight line drawn from the center to the circumference, and is equal to half the diameter.