The science and art of arithmetic, by A. Sonnenschein and H.A. Nesbitt. Exercise book, Volume 2 |
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12 days 9 places 99 EXERCISE A's share acres amount annum Austrian B's to C's bought broad brokerage bushels C's to D's centimetres circumference compound interest Consols continued fraction convergents cubic centimetres cubic foot cubic metre debt decimals decimetres discounted Divide dividend dwts effect is produced English miles EXERCISE XXV Express feet Find in miles Find the cost Find the difference Find the interest Find the length Find the limits Find the sum Find the value francs French gain or loss gallons gold grains grammes guineas hectare hectolitre hectometres horses invested kilometres millimetres minutes months Multiply myriametres nearest integer nonary paid piece profit Prussian quotient ratio reckoned at 365 reckoned yearly Reduce remainder sell sold square root sugar sum of money Sum the series tons troy vulgar fractions wide worth yards دو
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Page 65 - ... {80) A ship's company take a prize of £1000, which is to be divided amongst them in proportion to their pay and to their time of service ; the officers, 4 in number, have 40s. each a mouth, and the midshipmen, 12 in number, have 30s.
Page 55 - ... side. By means of these properties, it follows that two sides of a right.angled triangle being given, the third side can be found. EXAMPLES. 1. How long must a ladder be, to reach to the top of a house 40 feet high, when the foot of it is 30 feet from the house ? In this example, it is obvious that the ladder forms the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, whose sides are 30 and 40 feet respectively.
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Page 52 - A man agreed to work a days on these conditions : for each day he worked he was to receive с cents, and for each day he was idle he was to forfeit d cents. At. the end of a days he received m cents. How many days was he idle ? 21. A sum of money is divided among three persons ; the first receives a dollars more than a third of the whole sum ; the second receives...
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Page 55 - Results to be found to 4 places : (1) A rectangular room is 24 ft. long and 18 ft. broad. Find the diagonal of the floor. (2) A tower is 180 ft. high ; I stand 19 ft. away from the base. How far am I in a straight line from the top of the tower ? (3) The disc of a pendulum 85 inches long touches in its sweep two points, A and B, which are in the same horizontal line, and are 1 inch above the lowest position of the disc. How far...