An Intellectual Arithmetic Upon the Inductive Method |
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12 cents 12 dollars 12 per cent 12 rods 20 cents 30 days 9 cents 9 dollars acres apples cost barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of apples boy bought bushels of corn bushels of oats bushels of wheat cents a pound cents apiece cords of wood cows divided dollars a barrel dollars a yard dozen earn eight Eighteen eighths of 24 eleven elevenths equal feet fifths flour cost Forty-eight Forty-nine furlongs gain gallons gave gills give half halves horses eat hound hour interest of $1 less 9 less six LESSON LESSON II lowest terms melon miles miles per hour molasses months multiply nine ninths oranges ounces paid peaches pears pecks pennyweights PHILLIPS ACADEMY piece pint pound cost pupil quarts Reduce seven sevenths of 28 sheep sixths sold Solution square rods subtract third three fourths trees Troy Weight twelfths twelve weeks worth yards of cloth
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Page 102 - 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 97 - TABLE. 16 drams, dr. make 1 ounce, marked oz. 16 ounces - - 1 pound, - Ib. 25 pounds - - 1 quarter, - qr. 4 quarters - - 1 hundred weight, cwt. 20 hundred weight 1 ton, - - T.
Page 171 - DIVISION we find how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided, is called the DIVIDEND ; the number by which to divide is called the DIVISOR; the number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the QUOTIENT.
Page 66 - Two men start from the same place and travel in opposite directions, one at the rate of two miles in an hour, and the other...
Page 67 - If 4 men can do a piece of work in 6 days, in how many days can 3 men do twice as much work ? 15.
Page 78 - A PROPER FRACTION is one whose numerator is less than its denominator ; as ^, f, $. The value of a proper fraction is less than one.
Page 100 - Inches (c. in.) 27 Cubic Feet 16 Cubic Feet 8 Cord Feet, or) } 128 Cubic Feet TABLE.
Page 48 - If 6 men can do a piece of work in 10 days how many men can do the same in 15 days ? In 5 days; 26.
Page 133 - J of $ ? 35. A man owning £ of a ship, sold ^ of his share ; what part of the whole ship did he sell ? What part had he left? 36. What is £ of f ? 37.
Page 48 - If 6 men can do a piece of work in 15 days, in how many days can 10 men do the same?