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12 feet acres added amount apples barrels bill bought boys bushels carpet cents cloth coal column contains cord cubic feet decimal denominator difference Divide dividend division divisor dollar dozen earn eight equal feet long feet wide figures Find Find the cost Find the product five foot four fourths fraction gain gallons gave give Hence horses hundred hundredths inches integer interest James land larger leave length less measures miles minuend mixed numbers months Multiply Name NOTE ORAL EXERCISES paid piece pounds cost quarts quotient receive remainder result rods selling seven smallest sold Solution spent square Subtract taken tens tenths thick third thousand thousandths tons units week weighing wood worth write WRITTEN EXERCISES yard
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Page 120 - Reduce the fractions to a common denominator and divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
Page 55 - Division is finding how many times one number is contained in another; or It is finding one of the equal parts of a number.
Page 74 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt...
Page 92 - A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit...
Page 150 - 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 1 - A number is a unit or a collection of units; as one, three apples, five boys. 4. The unit of a number is one of the collection of units which constitutes the number. Thus, the unit of twelve is one, of twenty dollars is one dollar.
Page 148 - Measures are those used in measuring lines and distances. TABLE. 12 inches (in.) are 1 foot, ft. 3 feet " 1 yard, yd. 5^ yards, or 16J feet
Page 45 - To multiply a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier ; and if there be not places enough in the number, annex ciphers.
Page 86 - A bill is Receipted when its payment is acknowledged in writing by the creditor, or by some one authorized to sign for him. NOTE. M. stands for " thousand
Page 67 - To divide a number by 100, move the decimal point two places to the left. Thus 7 + 100 = 0.07 or .07.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Brief Course in Arithmetic: Oral and Written Greenleaf's mathematical series |
| Author | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin |
| Editor | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin |
| Publisher | Leach, Shewell and Sanborn, 1882 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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