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60 days bank bill Bonds bought buttons buying expenses carpet cash casting out nines cloth common fraction compound interest crêpe cubic dealer decimal point denominator discount divide dividend divisor Dollars Cents dozen earn equals factors figure Find the cost Find the interest Find the total fraction gain greatest common divisor gross profit ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE improper fraction inches integer invested invoice least common multiple Liberty Bonds marked price measure merchandise merchant meter mixed number money order month multiply muslin number of days ORAL EXERCISE paid pair piece pound prime cost Problems purchased quotient receipt received remainder Savings Stamps selling expenses selling price short method silk sold Solution square subtraction thousandths total cost tucks United States money waists War Savings Stamps week wide width WRITTEN EXERCISE yard
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Page 169 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 99 - An integer is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. An integer is divisible by 9 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 9.
Page 109 - To change a mixed number to an Improper fraction.— Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction; to the product add the numerator; place the sum over the denominator: 1% = 15/8.
Page 285 - Postmaster's record, to be filled in by him. Application for Domestic Money Order Spaces below to be filled in by purchaser, or, if necessary, by another person for him Amount ..Dollars...
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Page 78 - In multiplication of decimals, we know that the number of decimal places in the product is equal to the sum of those in both the factors.
Page 107 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 78 - When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers.
Page 284 - Samoa) ; or payable in Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Canal Zone (Isthmus of Panama...
Page 323 - Rules. — For finding the interest on any principal for any number of days: The answer in each case being in cents, separate the two right-hand figures of answer to express in dollars and cents.