The Rudiments of Written Arithmetic: Containing Slate and Black-board Exercises for Beginners and Designed for Graded Schools

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Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1877 - Arithmetic - 200 pages
 

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Page 108 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 73 - Decimals increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right, in a tenfold ratio ; and therefore they may be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided the same as whole numbers.
Page 82 - Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 62 - PROOF. Multiply the divisor and quotient together, and to the product add the remainder, if any ; if the result be equal to the dividend, the work is correct.
Page 43 - The number thus added to itself, or the number to be multiplied, is called the multiplicand. The number which shows how many times the multiplicand is to be taken, or the number by which we multiply, is called the multiplier.
Page 80 - RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors.
Page 161 - The Liter is the unit of capacity, both of Liquid and of Dry Measures, and is a vessel whose volume is equal to a cube whose edge is one-tenth of a meter, equal to 1.05673 qt.
Page 82 - 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 134 - Divide the product of the remaining factors of the dividend by the product of the remaining factors of the divisor, and the result will be the quotient.
Page 11 - If a letter of any value be placed before one of greater value, its value is to be taken from that of the greater. Thus, IX represents nine, XL forty, CD four hundred.

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