Hamilton's Standard Arithmetic: Book One-three, Book 3

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Cincinnati, 1917 - Arithmetic
 

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Page 363 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel. Liquid Measure. — 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon; 31| gallons = 1 barrel; 2 barrels = 1 hogshead. Long Measure. — 12 inches = 1 foot; 3 feet...
Page 365 - Troy Weight 24 grains = 1 pennyweight. 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Page 365 - Weight is used by apothecaries and physicians in compounding dry medicines. TABLE. 20 Grains (gr.} = 1 Scruple, . . sc., or 3. 3 Scruples = 1 Dram, . . dr., or 3 . 8 Drams = 1 Ounce, . . oz., or § . 12 Ounces = 1 Pound, . . Ib., or ft,.
Page 234 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 236 - 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 366 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty-eight; and one day more "We add to it one year in four.
Page 19 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 106 - ... inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employee or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable within a period reasonably required for transportation and deliyery.
Page 111 - ANGULAR MEASURE. 60 seconds (") = 1 minute ('). 60 minutes = 1 degree (°). 360 degrees = 1 circumference.
Page 366 - United States Money 10 mills = 1 cent 10 cents = 1 dime 10 dimes = 1 dollar 10 dollars = 1 eagle English Money 4 farthings = 1 penny = 9.02025 12 pence = 1 shilling = $.243 20 shillings = 1 pound = $ 4.8665 The unit of English money is the pound.

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