Arithmetic Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction ...: Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype FoundryU. Hunt, 1829 |
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Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 17 - There is an orchard consisting of 9 rows of trees, and there are 57 trees in each row. How many trees are there in the orchard.
Page 108 - ... and to explain them to others. To avoid these inconveniences, a method has been contrived to express all the numbers, that are necessary to be used, with very f«
Page 82 - A pile of wood 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high, or in any other form containing an equal quantity, is called a cord of wood.
Page 23 - If 46 men can do a piece of work in 60 days, how many men will it take to do it in one day ? 4.
Page 234 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Page 25 - AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. 16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce, marked oz. 16 ounces 1 pound Ib. 28 pounds 1 quarter qr. 4 quarters 1 hundred weight cwt. 20 hundred weight 1 ton T.
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Page 181 - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
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