Nelson's Common-school Arithmetic: Designed for the Use of the Lowest as Well as the Highest Classes: And Containing the Application of Arithmetic to the General Purposes of Life, and the Metric System of Weights and Measures, Recently Adopted by Congress |
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Page 71 - If 4 firkins of butter cost 26 dollars, what will 7 firkins cost ? 15. If 3 men can do a piece of work in 7 days, how long will it take 1 man to do it ? How long would it take 4 men ? 16.
Page 287 - Act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the Weights and Measures of the Metric System...
Page 203 - If both terms of a fraction be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction will remain unchanged.
Page 85 - 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 241 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 281 - To find the side of a square equal in area to a given circle, multiply the diameter by .8862.
Page 279 - A segment is any part of a circle bounded by an arc and its chord.
Page 253 - Either of the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle is equal to the square root of the difference of the squares of the hypothenuse and the other side. Exercises. 1. If the base of a right-angled triangle is 60 feet, and the perpendicular 45 feet, what is the hypothenuse ? OPERATION. 60" -)- 45 2 = 3600 + 2025 = 5625; V5625 = 75, feet, Ans.
Page 82 - The denominator indicates the number of parts into which the whole is divided, and the numerator the number of such parts under consideration.
Page 57 - There are 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard; how many inches are there in 357 yards?