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15 poles 19 dwts acres aliquot amount annexed answer ARITHMETIC Bought breadth bushels ciphers column common ratio composite number compound quantity cost cube root cubic inches denominator difference discount dividend division divisor dozen drams Dry Measure dwts equal EXERCISE expressed factors farthings feet Find the interest Find the value gain per cent gallon GEOGRAPHY given number given quantity guineas half-crowns hundred improper fraction JULIUS CÆSAR last term least common multiple length less man's share miles mixed number months multiplicand multiply number of terms number of units paid pence pieces of cloth pints pound pound sterling present worth principal proportion quires quotient rate per cent Reduce Required result Rule Rule.-Divide Rule.-Multiply Schools selling shillings sold subtract sugar tare thousand tons trial divisor vulgar fraction weight whole number دو وو
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Page 46 - To reduce an improper fraction to a whole or mixed number, — RULE : Divide the numerator by the denominator ; the quotient will be the whole or mixed number.
Page 51 - Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 106 - Given the first term, last term, and common difference, to find the number of terms. RULE. — Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1 is the number of terms.
Page xv - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February hath twenty-eight alone ; all the rest have thirty-one, Except in Leap Year, at which time, February's days are twenty-nine.
Page 111 - Subtract the square of this figure from the left-hand period, and to the remainder annex the next period for a dividend.
Page 45 - An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to, or greater than its denominator ; as...
Page 50 - Art. 141, we subtract the less numerator from the greater, and place the difference over the common denominator.
Page 43 - One number is a Multiple of another when it can be divided by it without a remainder. Thus 8 is a multiple of 2; 15 of 5; 33 of 11.