Hamilton's Standard ArithmeticAmerican Book Company, 1917 - Arithmetic |
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25 a pound apples balls barrel blackboard bought boys Build the table bushels butter called cents a pound Concord grapes contains Count crates desk DIME distance Divide and test DIVISION divisor dollars DRILLS DRY MEASURES eight elderberries equal Find the cost Find the number flags following numbers fourth gallons girls Give quotients half halves Hard Tack hundred inches long inches wide length LONG DIVISION MEASURES Memorize this table miles milk minutes naughts Niagara grapes number of square ounces paid peck pencils pints potatoes PRACTICAL PROBLEMS quarts quotients at sight READING AND WRITING receive rods Roman number schoolroom sell sold splints square feet square foot square inches square yard Subtract and test tens thousand tons week weigh Write in figures Write the Roman WRITING NUMBERS yards long
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Page 225 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal...
Page 225 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard...
Page 33 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty 21: twenty-one 22: twenty-two...
Page 164 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 225 - Square Measure. 144 square inches 1 square foot, 9 square feet 1 square yard, 30J square yards 1 square rod, 40 square rods 1 rood, 4 roods 1 acre.
Page 152 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient.
Page 153 - Think how many times the first figure of the divisor is contained in the first figure of the dividend.
Page 202 - Division is the process of finding how many times one number contains another, or of separating a number into equal parts.
Page 159 - Measures of length are used in measuring lines or distances. TABLE. 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.). 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.). 5£ yards, or 16| feet = 1 rod (rd.).
Page 163 - A man concreted the sidewalk in front of his house at a cost of $ 0.75 per square yard. The walk is 9 feet wide and 42 feet long. What did it cost him ? 12.