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acres annuity average barrels of flour bought bushels called cents a pound circumference cistern coal common fraction compound interest contains cords cube root cubic feet cubic foot decimal point denominator diameter discount dividend divisor dollars dozen equal EXERCISE expressed figures Find the amount Find the cost Find the difference Find the interest Find the number Find the product frustum gallons given number Hence hundred hundredths improper fraction integral number kilograms least common multiple length long tons longitude marked price meter minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply number of days ounces paid payment pints prime number quarts quotient ratio rectangular Reduce remainder selling Sept short ton sold SOLUTION square miles subtract subtrahend tens term thousand tons units weighs wheat whole number wide worth write WRITTEN
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Page 359 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 165 - Numbers. 12 units = 1 dozen. 12 dozen = 1 gross. 12 gross = 1 great gross. 20 units = 1 score.
Page 152 - Dry Measure 2 pints (pt.) =1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts = 1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu.) 2150.42 cu.
Page 272 - Multiply the divisor, thus increased, by the last figure of the root; subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend. 5. Double the whole root already found for a new divisor, and continue the operation as before, until all the periods are brought down. NOTE.
Page 343 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 160 - 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 274 - ... is equal to the square root of the difference of the squares of the hypotenuse and the other side.
Page 148 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 253 - That is, in any proportion either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme ; and either mean is equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Page 180 - PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.