Social Arithmetic, Book 1MacMillan, 1926 - Arithmetic |
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amount asked average berries bill bought boys bushels of corn butter cents Check your answer chickens clock column corn flakes cost count crops dimes divide divisor dollar dollar sign dozen earn expenses farmer Figure find the number flour fractions gallon girls give glasses grocer hens hogs hours an acre hundred hundred twenty-seven improper fraction inches Jack Jones labor lambs larger number less margin Mary measure minutes Monday month mother multiplication table multiply needed oats ounces peck person Peters picked pints potatoes pounds of live Prob profit quarts of milk quotient raise seed cotton sell sold square feet star shows subtract supply tell things thousand Tom picked Tom's family Tom's house total number truck farm Tuesday Uncle Will received Uncle Will's farm week weigh wheat Woolworth Building write
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Page 273 - Both terms of a fraction may be divided by the same number without changing the value of the fraction.
Page 64 - Under 1 year 1 year old 2 years old 3 years old 4 years old 5 years old 6 years old 7 years old 8 years old 9 years old 10 years old 11 years old 12 years old 13 years old 14 years old 15 years old 16 years old...
Page 275 - Thus, -r = — r b nib represents the rule that the numerator and denominator of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without changing its value.
Page 251 - Although the United States raises more wheat than any other country in the world, our yield is not so great an acre as that in many other countries.
Page 36 - When a thing is divided into two equal parts, we call each part "one-half" or "|.
Page 40 - In how many hours does the hour hand go around the clock face ? 78.
Page 46 - Make a table like this and fill in the blank spaces : minutes make 1 hour. hours make 1 day. days make 1 week.