Arithmetic, in Two Parts

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D. Bixby, 1847 - Arithmetic - 224 pages
 

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Page 143 - Now .} of f- is a compound fraction, whose value is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 37 - Troy Weight. 24 grains (gr.) — 1 pennyweight (dwt). 20 pennyweights — 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces — 1 pound (Ib.).
Page 53 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for. a new denominator.
Page 196 - The product of the sum and difference of two numbers is equal to the difference of their squares.
Page 105 - The first of four magnitudes is said to have the same ratio to the second, that the third has to the fourth, when any equimultiples whatever of the first and...
Page 36 - TABLE. 16 drams, (drs.) make • 1 ounce, - marked - oz. 16 ounces ----- 1 pound, ----- Ib. 28 pounds ----- 1 quarter, ----- qr. 4 quarters ----- 1 hundred weight, - - cwt. 20 hundred weight - - 1 ton, ------ T.
Page 77 - Should the rate be any other than 6 per cent, first find the interest at 6 per cent...
Page 217 - Ttíe logs may be 12 to 24 ft. long, in piles 5 or 6 ft. high, 9 ft. wide at the bottom, and 2 ft. wide at the top.
Page 126 - ... the next figure of the dividend. Find how many times the divisor is contained in the number thus formed; write the figure denoting it at the right hand of the former quotient figure.
Page 210 - Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea...

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