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11 less 12 cents 25 cents 50 cents 9 tens acres ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION apples barrels bought bushels cents a pound cents a yard common fraction contains cubes cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches decimal decimal fractions denominator dimes dividend divisor dollar dozen DRY MEASURE earn eight ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC feet long feet wide figure Find the sum following numbers foot fourths gallons George planted hundred hundredweight improper fractions inches long inches wide measure melon MENTAL EXERCISE miles minuend MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS Mixed Number month Multiply numbers ending one-inch squares oranges ounces paid pairs pecks pencils pints potatoes quarts quotient receive Reduce remainder rows sell small squares sold spent square feet square inches square mile square yards SUBTRACTION BY ENDINGS subtraction table thousand thousandths tons week whole square yard of ribbon yards of cloth
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Page 264 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30j square yards = 1 square rod (sq.
Page 266 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) =1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 263 - LENGTH 12 inches (in.) =1 foot (ft.) 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.) 5\ yards, or 16| feet = 1 rod (rd.) 320 rods, or 5280 feet = 1 mile (mi.) SQUARE MEASURE 144 square inches (sq.
Page 269 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...
Page 259 - Dry Measure 2 pints (pt.) =1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts = 1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu.) 2150.42 cu.
Page 100 - ... fish ; ^ of them were perch. How many were perch ? 4. If a man can walk 4 miles per hour, how long will it take him to walk 28 miles at this rate ? 5. 3 is ^ of what number ? 3 is ^ of what number ? 6. 3 boys bought a melon for 15 cents. What shall each boy pay ? 7. Harry had 32 marbles and sold ^ of them. How many did he sell ? How many had he left ? 8. Frank bought a pair of rabbits for 35 cents and sold them for 50 cents. What did he gain ? 9. What will 3 pints of milk cost at 6^ per quart?...
Page 249 - Proceed as in simple division, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor.
Page 40 - ... we express tens and units with hundreds, by writing, in place of the ciphers, the numbers representing the tens and units. To express one hundred fifty we write 1 hundred, 5 tens, and 0 units ; thus, 150. To express seven hundred ninety-two, we write 7 hundreds, 9 tens, and 2 units; thus, 792 The greatest number that can be expressed by three figures is 999.
Page 261 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal.) 31| gallons = 1 barrel (bbl.) 2 barrels = 1 hogshead (hhd...
Page 60 - When a letter is placed after one of greater value, its value is to be added to that of the greater. Thus, VI represents 6 ; XV.