A High School Arithmetic (Wentworth & Hill's Practical Arithmetic): For High Schools and Academies

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Ginn & Company, 1892 - 362 pages
 

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Page 350 - Sixty days after sight of this first of Exchange (Second and Third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
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.
Page 231 - ... the same time. And the same number of men will mow four times as much in 28 days as in 7 days. Hence, 24 men in 28 days will mow 3x4 times as much as 8 men in 7 days.
Page 322 - Three months after date I promise to pay to the order of John Brown two thousand seventeen and T8^ dollars, value received.
Page 247 - Find the surface of a rectangular block of stone 4 ft. long, 2} ft. broad, l1 ft. thick. 16. A lake whose area is 45 A. is covered with ice 3 in. thick. Find the weight of the ice in tons, if a cubic foot weigh 920 oz. avoirdupois.
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?

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