An Elementary and Practical Arithmetic

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Pratt, Woodford, & Company, 1850 - Arithmetic - 244 pages
 

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Page 5 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 34 - To divide an integer by any power of 10, cut off as many figures from the right of the dividend as there are zeros at the right of the divisor.
Page 73 - To reduce an improper fraction to an integer or a mixed number, divide the numerator by the denominator.
Page 125 - MEASURE. 12 inches (in.) make 1 foot, ft. 3 feet "1 yard, yd. 5£ yards, or 16¿- feet, " 1 rod, rd. 40 rods " 1 furlong, fur. 8 furlongs, or 320 rods,
Page 128 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November : February has twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have thirty-one : But leap-year coming once in four, February then has one day more.
Page 52 - ... until the quotient is a prime number. The several divisors and the last quotient will be the prime factors required.
Page 64 - An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to, or greater than its denominator ; as, $, -f . A mixed number is a whole number and a fraction expressed together; as, 4f, 25-ht.
Page 57 - Mnltiple of two or more numbers is the least number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder ; thus 30 is the least common multiple of 10 and 15.
Page 77 - To subtract one fraction from another. 1. If the fractions have not a common denominator, reduce them to a common denominator. 2. Subtract the less numerator from the greater, and place the remainder, as a numerator, over the common denominator.
Page 101 - TABLE. 10 mills (m.) make 1 cent, ct. 10 cents " 1 dime, d. 10 dimes " 1 dollar, $. 10 dollars " 1 eagle, E .. UNIT EQDIYAI/ENTS.

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