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acres annuity average barrels of flour bought bushels called cents a pound circumference cistern coal common fraction compound interest contains cords cube root cubic feet cubic foot decimal point denominator diameter discount dividend divisor dollars equal EXERCISE expressed figures Find the amount Find the cost Find the difference Find the interest Find the number Find the product frustum gallons given number Hence hundred hundredths improper fraction integral number June 16 kilograms least common multiple length long tons longitude marked price meter minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply number of days ounces paid payment pints prime number quarts quotient ratio rectangular Reduce remainder selling Sept short ton sold SOLUTION square miles subtract subtrahend tens term thousand tons units weighs wheat whole number wide worth write WRITTEN
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Page 148 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 343 - At sight of this First of Exchange (Second and Third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 272 - Multiply the divisor, thus increased, by the last figure of the root; subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend. 5. Double the whole root already found for a new divisor, and continue the operation as before, until all the periods are brought down. NOTE.
Page 160 - 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 262 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 161 - 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 253 - 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 318 - A man bought a cargo of coal for $500. He sold it for $5.75 a ton and gained $75. How many tons did he buy? 4. Find the prime factors of 20,790. 5. If a man walks 3f miles an hour, how many hours will it take him to walk 37£ miles ? 6. Find the cost of a piece of land that is 20 yards square, at 25 cents a square foot. 7. At 1£% commission an agent received $194.58 for selling goods.
Page 143 - If copper is 8j times as heavy as water, what is the weight of a cubic foot of copper ? 39.
Page 21 - When placed between two numbers this sign means that the number after it is to be subtracted from the number before it. It is called the minus sign.