Ciphering made easy, or, An attempt to render simple and interesting the first four rules of arithmetic. [With] Key1833 |
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14 pounds 75 yards acres amount annum Answer apples average beer board wages bottle bought bush bushels carry casks chal cloth containing cost debt Divide Dividend Division Sums Divisor dozen drams eight hundred eight-pence eighteen shillings eleven shillings feet fifty figures Find the value firkins five following numbers following sums four hundred four-pence fourteen furlongs gall gallons give grains guineas half half sovereign half-crowns halfpenny hundred and sixty hundred-weight inches linen Long Division manner means measure miles millions minutes months Multiply nail nine hundred nineteen ounces pair pecks penny pennyweights piece pints pounds quarts quotient reckon remain right hand seven shillings sovereigns spend square square miles Subtract sugar third thirteen thirty three farthings three hundred three quarters three-pence TROY WEIGHT twelve twenty wages week worth yards of calico
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Page 67 - Thirty Days hath September, April, June and November ; February hath Twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have Thirty-one ; Except in Leap Year, — then's the time February's Days are Twenty-nine.
Page 64 - Troy Weight. 24 grains (gr.) - 1 pennyweight (dwt.) 20 pennyweights — 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces — 1 pound (1b.).
Page 66 - Ale and Beer Measure. 2 Pints . . make 1 Quart 4 Quarts . „ 1 Gallon 9 Gallons . „ 1 Firkin 2 Firkins . „ 1 Kilderkin 2 Kilderkins make 1 Barrel 1J Barrel „ 1 Hogshead 2 Hogsheads „ 1 Butt 144 Quarts
Page 65 - ... 40 square rods, 1 square rood. 4 square roods, 1 square acre. 640 square acres, 1 square mile. 1 1 . Solid, or Cubic Measure. 1728 solid inches make 1 solid foot. 40 feet of round timber, oi > . . , , 50 feet of hewn timber, Î 1 ton or load...
Page 53 - ... animal substances, but) every substance, animate or inanimate, which stands in its way ! It might seem to be a force sufficient to shatter to atoms the hardest bodies. How then is this...
Page 65 - LENGTH 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 feet or 36 inches = 1 yard (yd.) 5^ yards or 16§ feet = 1 rod (rd.) 320 rods or 5280 feet = 1 mile (mi.) SQUARE MEASURE 144 square inches (sq.
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Page 28 - 8 multiplied by 4 equals 32." CASE I. 1. Multiply 682 by 3. SOLUTION. — 3 times 2 are 6 ; we write the 6 OPERATION. .under the 2 ; 3 times 8 are...
Page 47 - An*. 2. When the divisor is the exact product of any two figures multiplied together, the operation may be performed by the following Rule. 1. Divide by one of the figures, and then divide that product by the other. 2. If remainders occur, multiply the last remainder by the first divisor, and add in the first remainder.
Page 55 - Ireland, there are about four hundred and eighty banks for savings. The sum of money deposited in these banks is fourteen millions five hundred thousand pounds. The number of depositors is four hundred and ten thousand. ' The average amount of the sum deposited by each person is thirty-five pounds. The greater number of persons who are depositors in savings' banks are working-men and women.