The Common School Arithmetic: Combining Analysis and Synthesis; Adapted to the Best Mode of Instruction in the Elements of Written Arithmetic |
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amount annex barrel bill Bought bushels called cent ciphers common fraction complex fraction composite number compound interest compound numbers contains cords cost cube debts decimal diameter difference discount Divide dividend divisible dollars equal equated example Explain Ex farthings feet figure flour gain or loss gallons given number greatest common divisor Hence higher denominations hundred improper fraction interest of $1 least common multiple longitude lower denomination marked price measure meters miles million minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply NOTE number of terms OPERATION oxen payment pounds premium prime factors principal PROBLEM quarts quotient ratio rods Rule for finding shillings sold square root subtract subtrahend TABLE tens term of credit thousand Troy Weight true remainder units weight whole number wide worth yards of cloth
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Page 36 - When the multiplier is 10, 100, 1000, or 1 with any number of ciphers annexed, annex as many ciphers to the multiplicand as there are ciphers in the multiplier, and the multiplicand, so increased, will be the product required.
Page 76 - 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 76 - TABLE. 60 Seconds (sec.) make 1 Minute, m. 60 Minutes " 1 Hour, h. 24 Hours
Page 74 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 266 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Page 42 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 278 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 92 - The value of a fraction is the quotient of the numerator divided by the denominator ; thus, -^ = 12 -=- 4 = 3.
Page 252 - A wall, which was to be built 32 feet high, was raised 8 feet by 6 men in 12 days ; how many men must be employed to finish the wall in 6 days ? Ans.
Page 260 - Multiply the given number into itself, till it is taken as a factor, as many times as there are units in the index of the power to which the number is to be raised.