The Werner Arithmetic: Oral and Written, Volume 2American Book Company, 1896 - Arithmetic |
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The Werner Arithmetic, Oral and Written, Book Two, Parts I and II Frank H. Hall No preview available - 2019 |
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12 rods 40 rods acre acres of land apples barrel boards bought bricks bushels of oats centimeters Change commission Common Fractions cords cube cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches Decimal Fractions decimeters Denominate Numbers described in problem Divide earn equals the ratio exactly divisible feet long feet of lumber figure Find the cost Find the interest Find the number Find the product Find the quotient Find the sum gallons half hundred improper fraction inches wide integral number land is worth Lead the pupil least common multiple lowest terms meter mixed number months Multiply oblong paid Percentage piece of land prime factors quarts Ratio and Proportion rectangular solid Review pages selling price separatrix Simple Numbers sold solid content specific gravity square feet square rods square yards Story-A subtract tenths thirds thousandths weigh worth cents
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Page 285 - 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 282 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 256 - What is the ratio of the area of a circle to the area of its circumscribed square ? 34.
Page 285 - In any proportion, the product of the means equals the product of the extremes.
Page 222 - ... multiplying the numerators together for the new numerator and the denominators together for the new denominator." t The pupil should now understand that the sign of multiplication may mean times or multiplied by; that it indicates that the product of the numbers between which it stands, is to be taken, and that in abstract problems either of the numbers may be regarded as the multiplicand.
Page 261 - The Square Root of a number is one of its two equal factors.
Page 274 - The multiplier is the number that shows how many times the multiplicand is to be repeated.
Page 278 - The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of the given numbers.
Page 267 - I, or we, or either of us, promise to pay to the order of DM Osborne & Co.
Page 35 - A /An \ An right angle. / acute angle \ obtuse angle 1. When two lines meet at a point, they are said to form an angle. 2. When a jackknife is half way open, the handle and blade form a right angle. If it is less than half way open, they form an angle. If it is more than half way open, but not fully open, they form an angle. 3. A square D has 4 right angles.