The New American Arithmetic, in the Coin of the United States, Denominated Federal Money: Being a Plain and Easy Method of Computing by Numbers, Particularly Adapted to the Capacity of Youth, Illustrated and Simplified, for the Use of Academies and Schools in the United States |
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acres added Addition amount answer Arithmetic average begin bought bushels carry cast cents column Compound consisting contained cost cross cyphers decimal denomination difference dimes distance Divide dividend Division divisor dollars equal EXAMPLES exceed Federal Money feet figure five four fraction Gallons given gives grains half hundred inches interest land leaves left hand length less lowest MEASURE method miles millions mills months multiplicand Multiply nine NOTE NOTE.-To numbers here given Operation ounces pieces pounds proceed Proof Proportion prove quantity quarters question quotient receive Reduce remainder right hand rods RULE seven signifies Simple sold square subtract TABLE tens tenths term third term Thous thousand thousandths tons units weight whole number yards
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| Title | The New American Arithmetic, in the Coin of the United States, Denominated Federal Money: Being a Plain and Easy Method of Computing by Numbers, Particularly Adapted to the Capacity of Youth, Illustrated and Simplified, for the Use of Academies and Schools in the United States |
| Author | John Lyman Newell |
| Publisher | author, 1822 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 202 pages |
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