The young ladies' guide to practical arithmetic and book-keeping, with forms of invoices, receipts &c

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Page 5 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 5 - January 31, February 28, March 31, April 30, May 31, June 30, July 31, August 31, September 30, October 31, November 30, December 31.
Page 107 - A thousand stories which the ignorant tell, and believe, die away at once, when the computist takes them in his gripe.
Page 49 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Page 17 - DIVISION we find how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided, is called the DIVIDEND ; the number by which to divide is called the DIVISOR; the number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the QUOTIENT.
Page 7 - Place the numbers under each other so that units may stand under units, tens under tens, and so on, and draw a line under them.
Page 24 - Sir Isaac Newton was born in the year 1642, and he died in 1727 ; how old was he at the time of his decease ? Ans. 85 years. 27. Gunpowder was invented in the year 1330 ; how long was this before the invention of printing, which was in 1441 ? Ans. I11 years. 28. The mariners...
Page 17 - 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.

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