Intellectual Arithmetic: Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction |
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100 dollars 12 dollars 30 dollars 9 dollars analytic induction asked the age barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of cider bought broadcloth bushel cost bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents apiece cloth cost contained cost 2 dollars divided dollars a barrel dollars a yard eight dollars eighteen Eleven equal farthings fifths firkins of butter five dollars flour cost Forty-eight Forty-seven four dollars Fourteen fractions gallons gave gills give them apiece half halves horses eat hundred weight improper fraction lars lowest terms miles months nails Nineteen oranges cost paid pears pence perform piece pints plate ples pole pound cost provision will serve pupil quarters wide quarts rectangles Reduce rods seven dollars Seventeen sevenths sheep shillings a bushel six cents Sixteen sixths sold square subtraction tenths Thirteen three dollars twelve dollars week whole numbers yards cost yards of cloth
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Page 166 - I see by little and little more of what is to be done, and how it is to be done, should I ever be able to do it.
Page 127 - FEDERAL MONEY. 10 mills make 1 cent. 10 cents " 1 dime. 10 dimes " 1 dollar. 10 dollars
Page 44 - Remark. . When any thing, or any number, is divided into two equal parts, one of the parts is called the half of the thing or the number. 1. If an apple is worth two cents, what is one half of it worth ? 2.
Page 82 - A man, being asked how many sheep he had, said that he had them in two pastures ; in one pasture he had eight ; and that 3 fourths of these was just 1 third of what he had in the other. How many were there in the other ? 4.
Page 24 - E. 1. A man bought a sheep for nine dollars, and to pay for it he gave five bushels of corn worth four dollars and the rest in money ; how much money did he pay.
Page 106 - ... 35 gallons run out in an hour ; in what time will it be filled ? Ans. in 12 hours. 29. A and B depart from the same place and travel the same road ; but A goes 5 days before B, at the rate...
Page 119 - It will be seen by the above section that if both the numerator and denominator be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction will not be altered...
Page 11 - This will be delivered to you by my son Samuel, whom I beg leave to commit to your care, hoping that by your well-known skill and attention you will be able to make something of him ; which, I am sorry to say, none of his masters have hitherto done. He is now eleven, and yet can do nothing but read his mother tongue, and that indifferently.
Page 133 - Two men start from the same place, and travel the same way ; one at the rate of 4...
Page 141 - A man having a horse, a cow, and a sheep was asked what was the value of each. He answered, that the cow was worth twice as much as the sheep, and the horse 3 times as much as the sheep, and that all together were worth 60 dollars ; what was the value of each ? 170.