Intellectual Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction |
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12 dollars 30 dollars 9 dollars Arithmetic asked the age barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of cider bought broadcloth bushel cost bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents apiece cloth cost contained cost 2 dollars Deliberative Assemblies divided divisor dollars a barrel dollars a yard eight dollars eighteen eleven equal examples farthings fifteen fifths firkins of butter five dollars flour cost Forty-eight Forty-seven four dollars fourteen fourths fractions gallons gave gills give them apiece half halves horses eat hundred weight improper fraction lars lowest terms miles months Multiply nails nineteen oranges cost pears pence piece pints pole pound cost pupil quarters wide quarts Reduce rods SECTION seven dollars seventeen sevenths sheep shillings a bushel six cents sixteen sixths sold subtract tens tenths thirds thirteen three dollars twelve dollars twenty Twenty-seven week whole numbers wine yards cost yards of cloth
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Page 149 - I see by little and little more of what is to be done, and how it is to be done, should I ever be able to do it.
Page 126 - 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 76 - A man, being asked how many sheep he had, said that he had them in two pastures ; in one pasture he had eight ; and that 3 fourths of these was just 1 third of what he had in the other. How many were there in the other ? 4.
Page 111 - It will be seen by the above section that if both the numerator and denominator be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction will not be altered...
Page 34 - There is an orchard consisting often rows of trees, and nine trees in each row ; how many trees are there in the orchard ? 12.
Page 66 - Sixteen ----- 16 Seventeen ----- 17 Eighteen - - - - , 18 Nineteen ----- 19 Twenty ----- 20 Twenty-one - - - - - 21 Twenty-two 22 Twenty-three - - - - 23 Twenty-four 24 Twenty-five 25 Twenty-six 26 Twenty-seven - - - - 27 Twenty-eight 28 Twenty-nine - - - - - 29 Thirty 30 Thirty-one, &c. - - - - 31 Forty ----- 40 Fifty 50 Sixty - . - - - - 60 Seventy . - - - - 70 Eighty - . - - - - 80 Ninety - 90 One hundred - 100 SECTION VI.
Page 164 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 98 - Miscellaneous Examples. 1. If a staff 5 feet long cast a shadow 4 feet at 12 o'clock, what is the length of a pole that casts a shadow 67 feet at the same time ? 2. If 53 gallons of water, in 1 hour, run into a cistern containing 97 gallons, and 44 gallons run out in an hour, in what time will it be filled ? 3. A man bought a cask of wine containing 75 gallons ; 2 sevenths of it leaked out, and he sold the remainder for 1 dollar a gallon ; how much did he sell it for ? 4. A cask of wine cost 67 dollars...
Page 133 - A farmer being asked how many sheep he had, answered, that he had them in 4 pastures...
Page 130 - If A can do £ of a piece of work in 1 day, and B can do £ of it in 1 day, how much would both do in a day ? How long would it take them both together to do the whole ? 147.