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12 cents 20 cents 50 cents 9 cents addends apples balls barrel BLACKBOARD DRILL books cost bushels cents a pound children tell Children write ciphers circles column common fraction contains Count cows cubic inches decimal figures decimal point denominator dimes Divide dividend division dollars dozen earn eggs equal farmer figure that tells five four gallons greatest common divisor hundred improper fraction integer John least common multiple less lowest terms marbles miles an hour million minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply number story ounces paid pecks pencils picture pints PRIMARY ARITHMETIC prime number pupils quarts Question quotient Reduce remainder rods roses sell sheep sold square mile sticks Subtract subtrahend Take one counter Teacher take tens thousand three counters three-cent pieces trees two-cent piece units weeks wide written yards of cloth
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Page 126 - Having set the given numbers in a line, divide by any PRIME number that will divide two or more of them...
Page 103 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 188 - Table : 144 square inches [sq. in.] . make 1 square foot sq. ft. 9 square feet make 1 square yard sq. yd. 30£ sq.
Page 105 - At 10 cents a yard, how many yards of cloth can be bought for 90 cents?
Page 192 - MEASURE is used in measuring grain, salt, &c. 2 pints (pt.) make 1 quart. qt. 8 quarts make 1 peck. pk 4 pecks make 1 bushel. bu WINE MEASURE is used by grocers and others, for measuring wine, oil, molasses, and most other liquids.
Page 196 - MONEY 10 mills (m.) make 1 cent (ct.). 10 cents make 1 dime (di.).
Page 232 - A man owning \ of a ship, sold \ of his share ; what part of the ship did he sell, and what part did he then own ? 17.
Page 222 - Take { of the number of bushels, and subtract from the product ^ of 0.01 of the product. 38. Find the number of bushels a bin will hold that is 6 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, and 4 ft. deep.
Page 166 - A decimal fraction, by means of the decimal point (.), is written without the denominator, and the value of the decimal figures determined by the place of each with reference to the decimal point. The first order to the right of the decimal point is that of tenths. Thus...
Page 110 - RULE. Cut off from the right of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers at the right of the divisor ; divide what remains by the divisor without the.