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acres altitude amount ANALYSIS.-Since ANALYSIS.-The angles annual interest apiece barrel base bill bought bushels ciphers circumference common difference common divisor common fraction compound compound interest contained cord cost cube root cubic decimal denominator diameter discount divided dividend dollars draft feet figures gain gallons given number greatest common divisor Hence horses hundred hundredths improper fraction inches insured integers last term least common multiple length marked price meters miles minuend months Multiply NOTE.-The number of terms OPERATION ORAL EXERCISES paid Par Value payment payt percentage perpendicular pounds premium prime factors principal proportion quotient rate per cent ratio receive Reduce remainder repetend rods RULE.-Divide RULE.-I RULE.-Multiply sell share side sold square root subtract thousandths triangle units weight wide worth WRITTEN EXERCISES yards
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Page 48 - Two persons start from the same place, and travel in the same direction ; one at the rate of...
Page 309 - Contents of similar solids are to each other as the cubes of their like dimensions.
Page 225 - RULE. Divide the given interest by the interest of $1 for the given time, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 22 - Placing the subtrahend under the minuend, so that units of the same order stand in the same column.
Page 237 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 78 - Numerator shows how many of those parts are taken. 1. A proper fraction is one whose numerator is less than the denominator , as f . 2.
Page 71 - The greatest common divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder. Thus 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, and 24.
Page 155 - Weight is used by apothecaries and physicians in compounding dry medicines. TABLE. 20 Grains (gr.} = 1 Scruple, . . sc., or 3. 3 Scruples = 1 Dram, . . dr., or 3 . 8 Drams = 1 Ounce, . . oz., or § . 12 Ounces = 1 Pound, . . Ib., or ft,.
Page 331 - 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 314 - That is, the first term of an increasing arithmetical progression is equal to the last term, minus the product of the common difference by the number of terms less one.