A High School Arithmetic (Wentworth & Hill's Practical Arithmetic): For High Schools and AcademiesGinn & Company, 1892 - 362 pages |
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$1 stock $100 stock costs $100 stock pays 100 be taken 3d interest 3d principal acres antilog bought cistern colog common fractions compound interest cubic foot derived from $1 diameter discount Divide draft error EXERCISE Find by logarithms Find the amount Find the cost Find the L. C. M. Find the number Find the rate Find the square Find the sum Find the value G. C. M. of fractions gallons gals Hence hour income invested pays kilograms liter log log logarithms the product lowest terms mantissa marked price miles minute Multiply number corresponding number required payment pays $8 pound present worth rate per cent Reduce to common Reduce to decimals Reduce to lowest selling price specific gravity taken to represent thick troy volume weigh wide yard
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Page 231 - ... 60. If a man travel 150 miles in 5 days, when the days are 12 hours long, in how many days of 10 hours each will he travel 500 miles?
Page 466 - In a pair of nut-crackers if the nut be placed at a distance of 1 in. from the hinge, and the hand presses at a distance of 8 in. from the hinge, find the pressure upon the nut for every ounce of pressure exerted by the hand.
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Page 203 - What is the difference in longitude between two places, if the difference in time is 7 hr.
Page 239 - How many yards % of a yard wide will be required for a room 8J yds. long and 17 ft. wide, if the strips run lengthwise, and there is a waste of ^ of a yard in each strip, in matching patterns ? 24.
Page 229 - ... 52. If 12 men can reap a field in 4 days, in what time will 32 men reap it ? 53. If 72 men dig a trench in 63 days, in how many days will 42 men dig another trench three times as great ? 54. If a man travel 540 miles in 24 days, walking 6 hours a day, how many miles can he travel in 3 days, walking 8 hours a day ? 55.
Page 403 - ... 3. In how many years will a sum of money double itself at 6%, compounded annually?