First Lessons in Mental and Written Arithmetic: On the Objective Method

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Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1870 - Arithmetic - 174 pages
 

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Page 177 - A pile of wood 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, and 4 ft. high is called a cord of wood.
Page 26 - When the numbers are thus written, the right-hand figure of one number is placed directly under the right-hand figure 1 and 1 are 2 2 and 1 are 3 3 and 1 are 4...
Page 155 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper' fraction. RULE. Multiply the integer by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator ; then draw a line and place the йепошлвдЛго \ÄÄ«V.
Page 143 - Cut off from the right of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers at the right of the divisor ; divide what remains by the divisor without the.
Page 144 - Cut off the ciphers at the right of the divisor and an equal number of figures at the right of the dividend. II. Divide the remaining figures of the dividend by the remaining figures of the divisor to find the true quotient. III. Prefix the remainder, if any, to the figures cut off from the dividend*, to obtain the true remainder.
Page 132 - ... will be the required product. Q. If you place one cipher on the right of a number, what effect has it on its value ? If you place two, what effect has it? If you place three? And for any number of ciphers, how much will each increase it ? How do you multiply by 10, 100, 1000...
Page 175 - Linear Measure, is used in measuring lines or distances. TABLE. 12 inches (in.) make 1 foot, ft. 3 feet " 1 yard yd. 5^ yd., or 16^ ft.,

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