An Intermediate Arithmetic ...: (Robinson's Shorter Course).Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1874 |
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12 cents 25 cents 9 cents ANALYSIS ANALYSIS.-Since ANALYSIS.-The annex barrels of flour blocks bought bushels cents a pound Change ciphers common fraction contained cord cost cube cubic feet cubic inches decimal fraction decimal places Denominate Numbers divided dividend dollars Dry Measure exactly divisible expressed figures Find the interest foot four fourths fractional units gain gallons given number greatest common divisor Hence hundred hundredths hypotenuse improper fraction integer least common denominator least common multiple less lowest terms Measure Meter miles mills minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply nator OPERATION paid pieces pints prime factors Principle PRINCIPLES.-1 proper fractions quarts quotient rate per cent Reduce remainder result rods RULE.-I selling simple numbers square root subtract subtrahend TABLE tens tenths thousand thousandths weight write WRITTEN EXERCISES
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Page 58 - DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of finding one of the equal parts of a number.
Page 206 - Dry Measure 2 pints (pt.) =1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts = 1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu.) 2150.42 cu.
Page 138 - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
Page 86 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them.
Page 280 - The Liter is the unit of capacity, both of Liquid and of Dry Measures, and is a vessel whose volume is equal to a cube whose edge is one-tenth of a meter, equal to 1.05673 qt. Liquid Measure, and .9081 qt. Dry Measure, TABLE. 10 Milliliters, ml.
Page 213 - 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 74 - I. Cut off the ciphers from the right of the divisor, and as many figures from the right of the dividend. II. Divide the remaining part of the dividend by the of the divisor.
Page 89 - Draw two verticals, and write the two numbers, one on each side, the greater number one line above the less. II. Divide the greater number by the less, writing the quotient between the verticals, the product under the dividend, and the remainder below, III. Divide the less number by the remainder, the last divisor by the last remainder, and so on, till nothing remainf.
Page 32 - Washington was born in 1732, and died in 1799 ; how old was he ? A.
Page 175 - To divide by 10, 100, 1000, etc., it is necessary only to move the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor.