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New High School Arithmetic: Academic, Industrial, Commercial Webster Wells,Walter Wilson Hart No preview available - 2023 |
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acre altitude annual Baldwin Locomotive bank base bond bushel cash charge compound interest compounded computed cube root cubic foot decimal places decimal point denominator deposit Determine diameter discount divided dividend draft equal EXERCISE Express face factors feet figure Find the amount Find the cost Find the interest Find the total floor fraction frustum gallons Hence hundredweight improper fraction inches income indorsement integer July lateral area length March 15 miles minuend months Multiply number of days paid parallelogram parallelopiped payable payment pieces pound premium profits purchase quotient rate per cent receive rectangle represents result right circular cone round steak Rule selling Sept side slant height sold Solution Solution.-1 square root square yard subtract surface triangle units weight wide zeros
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Page 355 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 356 - Liquid Measure 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal...
Page 355 - 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 123 - Measures of Length 10 millimeters (mm.) = 1 centimeter (cm.) 10 centimeters = 1 decimeter (dm.) 10 decimeters = 1 meter (m.) 10 meters = 1 dekameter (Dm.) 10 dekameters = 1 hektometer (Hm.) 10 hektometers = 1 kilometer (Km.) 10 kilometers = 1 myriameter (Mm.) Measures of Surface 100 sq.
Page 355 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 357 - English Money 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny (d.) 12 pence = 1 shilling...
Page 162 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Page 143 - The last two figures of the root are found by division. The rule in such cases is, that two less than the number of figures already obtained may be found without error by division, the divisor to be employed being three times the square of the part of the root already found.
Page 356 - AVoIRDUPOIS WEIGHT 16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (Ib.). 100 pounds = 1 hundredweight (cwt.). 20 hundredweight = 1 ton (T.).
Page 193 - The altitude of a frustum of a pyramid is the perpendicular distance between the bases.