Intermediate Arithmetic, Including Exercises in Solving Simple Algebraic Equations Containing One Unknown QuantityD.C. Heath & Company, 1895 - 458 pages |
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12 cents 12 feet 25 cents 50 cents acres angle answers average bill bought bricks bushels butter Change coal common fractions containing cord cubic decimal DENOMINATE NUMBERS diagram dimensions Divide dividend dollar dozen Examination Questions feet wide fence Find the cost Find the number gallon Give greatest common divisor horses hundred hundredths hundredweight improper fractions inches long inches wide least common multiple Long Ton lowest terms miles minutes MIXED NUMBERS months Multiply number of square Oral Exercises Oral Problems ounces paid pairs peck piece of cloth pints quarts quotient receive remainder sell Sight Exercises Slate Exercises Slate Problems sold square feet square inches square yards Subtract sugar thousand thousandths tons triangle troy weight weighing whole numbers worth Write in figures yards long yards of cloth
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Page 251 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints = 1 quart (qt.) 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal...
Page 427 - Troy Weight. 24 grains (gr.) — 1 pennyweight (dwt). 20 pennyweights — 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces — 1 pound (Ib.).
Page 250 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day (da.) 7 days = 1 week (wk.) 365 days = 1 common year...
Page 420 - 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. mi.) Cubic Measure 1728 cubic inches (cu.
Page 304 - C 4£ days to do a piece of work, how long will it take to do the work if all three work together ? 8.
Page 327 - Linear Measure 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.) 5-j yards = 1 rod (rd.) 320 rods =1 mile (mi...
Page 455 - By transposing we mean bringing the unknown quantities (a;, y, z, etc.) to one side of the equation, and the known quantities to the other. NOTE. — In bringing a quantity from one side of the equation to the other, the sign of the quantity is changed.
Page 308 - Indicate the work, and cancel. 23. A can do a piece of work in 6 days, B can do it in 6 days, C can do it in 6 days.
Page 219 - What is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by 4, 6, and 8. 463. The smallest number that is a multiple of two or more numbers is called the least common multiple of such numbers.