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A New Elementary Arithmetic, Uniting Oral and Written Exercises Emerson Elbridge White No preview available - 2010 |
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Page 94 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another.
Page 163 - Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor.
Page 105 - DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of finding one of the equal parts of a number.
Page 144 - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
Page 121 - 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 233 - What part of a year is 1 month ? 2 months? 3 months ? 4 months ? 5 months ? 6 months ? 7 months? 8 months? 9 months?
Page 115 - If 2 men start from the same place, and travel in opposite directions ; one at the rate of 3| miles in an hour, and the other 4£...
Page 139 - To find the fractional part of an integer, or to multiply an integer by a fraction, Divide the integer by the denominator and multiply the quotient by the numerator. Or: Multiply the integer by the numerator and divide < the product by the denominator. 2. To multiply an integer by a mixed number, Mul- t tiply by the integer and the fraction separately, and add the products.
Page 114 - The product of two numbers is 72, and one of the numbers is 8: what is the other number?
Page 214 - RULE. — Multiply the length (in feet) by the width (in inches) and divide the product by 12 — the result will be the contents in square feet.