City Arithmetics, Part 2Charles E. Merrill Company, 1916 - Arithmetic |
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acres AMOUNT OF PURCHASE answers at sight approximate answers barrel bottles boxes boys bushel cents change the value common fraction complex fractions count by 8's cubic cubic foot dealer decimal fractions decimal places decimal point decimals by 100 denominator Divide 45 dividend and divisor DIVIDING A DECIMAL dollars dozen earn eggs exactly divisible Find the cost following decimals following numbers Four hundred gallon grocer bought hour hundred twenty-seven hundred-thousandths hundredths inches INTEGER J. C. STEARNS least common multiple lowest terms miles millionths minuend mixed decimal mixed number multiplicand naughts nearly exact number is exactly Oral Exercises pairs piece pint pound quarts quotient receipt the bill receive remainder ribbon Roman numerals Saturday Evening Posts SHORT METHODS six hundred sixty sold ten-thousandths tenths thousand nine hundred thousand six thousandths TYPE PROBLEM walk week whole number Written Exercises Written Problems yard York
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Page 144 - SQUARE MEASURE 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet — 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30^ square yards = 1 square rod (sq. rd.) 160 square rods = 1 acre (A.) 640 acres = 1 square mile (sq.
Page 143 - Time 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day (da.) 7 days = 1 week (wk.) 365 days = 1 common year (yr.) 366 days = 1 leap year 12 months (mo.) = 1 year 10 years = 1 decade 10 decades or \ , , , „ , 1=1 century (cen. or U.) 100 years / J v ' Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, To which we twenty-eight assign, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 143 - LENGTH 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.) 5| yards = 1 rod (rd.) 320 rods = 1 mile (mi.) 1 mile = 1,760 yd.
Page 143 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 143 - AVoIRDUPOIS WEIGHT 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (Ib.). 100 pounds = 1 hundredweight (cwt.). 20 hundredweight = 1 ton (T.).
Page 99 - Multiply as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals, in the product, as there are decimals in the multiplicand and multiplier. If there be not so many figures in the product as there are decimal places in the multiplicand and multiplier, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers.
Page 144 - MONEY. 10 mills = 1 cent. 10 cents = 1 dime. 10 dimes = 1 dollar. 10 dollars = 1 eagle.
Page 132 - STEP 1: Change the divisor to a whole number by moving the decimal point to the right.
Page 65 - We have seen, on page 50, that we may divide both terms of a fraction by the same number without changing the value of the fraction ; that is, we may cancel any factor that is found in both terms.
Page 37 - Place the decimal point in the quotient directly above the decimal point in the dividend.