Graded Lessons in Number, Part 2A. Lovell & Company, 1894 |
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12 cents 12 feet long 20 cents 20 feet 20 per cent 40 rods 50 cents acres April 15 barrels of flour bushels of wheat cassimere cents a bushel cents a gallon cents a pint cents a pound cents a quart coal containing cord cube cube root cubic foot decimal denominator diameter discount dividend divisor dollars dozen equal farmer sold feet deep feet high feet wide fence Find the cost fraction frustum gain 25 gain per cent gallons grocer bought grocer sold hundred hundred-weight inches wide interest June 14 maple syrup marked price merchant bought merchant sold mile molasses ounces paid peck pork profit promise to pay purchased retailed rods long rods wide Sept sides slant height square feet square root square yard sugar tons triangle units value received worth yards of cloth
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Page 235 - The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the second and third terms, the means. Thus, in the foregoing proportion, 8 and 3 are the extremes and 4 and 6 are the means.
Page 291 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value.
Page 41 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; February twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one ; Except in Leap year, then is the time, When February has twenty-nine.
Page 287 - Divide as in the division of integers, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor.
Page 261 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 291 - A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other.
Page 259 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 73 - ... base. For the area of a circle is equal to the product of half the diameter into half the circumference ; (Art.
Page 2 - A man sold 1,080 acres of land at $255 an acre, and with the money bought horses at $75 each; how many horses did he get? (10) A man paid $22.50 for a harness, and 3 times as much for a wagon; how much did both cost?