Elements of Business Arithmetic

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Page 77 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
Page 52 - Both terms of a fraction may be divided by the same number without changing the value of the fraction.
Page 76 - ... extract the square root of the numerator for a new numerator, and of the denominator for a new denominator; or, reduce the vulgar fraction to a decimal, and extract its root.
Page 63 - B's money is equal to f of A's. How many dollars has each? 44. Lyman can do a piece of work in 4 days and Farwell can do it in 5 days. How long will it take them, working together, to doit?
Page 238 - In any proportion, the product of the means is equal to the product of the extremes.
Page 26 - When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers.
Page 203 - Jan. 1 Feb. 1 Mar. 1 Apr. 1 May 1 June 1 July 1 Aug. 1 Sept. 1 Oct. 1 Nov. 1 Dec. 1 Probable date of birth.
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