Graded Work in Arithmetic, Book 7American Book Company, 1901 - Arithmetic |
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acre ad valorem allowing altitude angle bank discount barrel base board feet bought carpet cent circle circumference commission cone contains convex surface cubic feet cubic foot cylinder day of maturity days of grace deducting demand note diameter difference in longitude distance divided Dollars draft dry measure entire surface equal Find the amount Find the area Find the convex Find the cost Find the entire Find the interest Find the number Find the value flour gain gallon length LESSON marked price measure meridian number of cubic o'clock P.M. paid piece of land poll tax pound premium prime meridian promise to pay proportion ratio rhombus rule for finding selling shingles side slant height sold square pyramid square yard thick triangle triangular prism TROY WEIGHT value received wall wheat wide width
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Page 151 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 118 - Ans. $ 78.79^. 30. How many bricks 8 in. long, 4 in. wide, and 2 in. thick would be required to construct a wall 15 ft.
Page 134 - The altitude of a pyramid or cone is the perpendicular distance from the ve~rtex to the base.
Page 70 - INTEREST is money paid for the use of money. The PRINCIPAL is the sum for which interest is paid. The AMOUNT is the sum of the principal and interest.
Page 112 - 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 112 - X 12 amount 12 men earn = 7 — -, or $75, since either mean equals the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Page 63 - VALOREM duty, (according to value), is a certain per cent, of the cost of the goods in the country from which they were imported.
Page 84 - promissory note" is a written promise to pay a certain sum of money, on demand, or at a specified time, to a certain person, his order or to bearer. The " parties to d note
Page 16 - If 1 bu. or 60 Ib. of wheat make 48 Ib. of flour, how many barrels of flour can be made from the contents of a bin 10 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, and 4 ft. deep, filled with wheat ? Ans.