An Advanced Arithmetic for High Schools, Normal Schools, and Academies

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Ginn, 1898 - Arithmetic - 400 pages
Every high school, normal school, and academy should allow sufficient time for a thorough review of arithmetic. This book has been written as a text-book for that purpose. The shortest and surest road to a knowledge of arithmetic is by solving problems, and these problems are designed to convey a great deal of useful information and to furnish the very best mental training, the primary object of the study. It is not necessary for any pupil, or any class to do all the problems. Every teacher can select parts of chapters, chapters, or problems suited to the needs of the pupils.
 

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Page 158 - 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 314 - Multiply the complete divisor by the second figure of the root, subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder annex the next period for a new dividend.
Page 147 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 297 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 96 - A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. 5. A number is divisible by 9 (32) if the sum of its digits is divisible by 9. 6. A number is divisible by 5 if its last digit is either 5 or 0.
Page 163 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone : Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 68 - 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 219 - That is, in any proportion either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme ; and either mean is equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Page 58 - The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.
Page 398 - This loss or drop due to resistance is directly proportional to the length of the conductor, and inversely proportional to its area of cross-section.

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