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60 days acres addends amount average balance due barrel bill of exchange bought broker brokerage bushels capital cash cents per pound charges common fractions compound interest denominator deposit divide dividend divisor dollars draft equated date EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE find the interest focal date fraction gain gallons greatest common divisor gross cost gross proceeds Hence ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Income per share indorsement insolvency investment invoice July July 18 June June 15 June 24 least common multiple loss marked price Mdse minuend months Multiply number of days obtaining paid par value partner payable payment percentage premium principal profit purchase quantity quotient rate of commission rate per annum rate per cent received remainder Rule.-I selling price Sept shares Solution storage subtract units worth yard
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Page 109 - 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 150 - RULE. — Multiply the length (in feet) by the width (in inches) and divide the product by 12 — the result will be the contents in square feet.
Page 43 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor of 36 and 54, since it is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder.
Page 55 - The least common denominator of two or more fractions is the least common multiple of their denominators.
Page 11 - ... one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred two hundred three hundred four hundred five hundred...
Page 86 - Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor.
Page 110 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu.
Page 269 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 12 - III. If the sum of any column exceeds nine, set down its right-hand figure only ; and add the number expressed by its remaining figu.res to the next column on the left. IV. Set down tht entire sum of the left-hand column.
Page 251 - A Share is one of the equal parts into which the capital stock is divided.