The Grammar-school Arithmetic: Being Book Second of the Analysis of Written Arithmetic : Designed for Public and Private Schools : Containing Mental, Slate, and Blackboard ExercisesCharles Scribner & Company, 1868 - 340 pages |
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acres added addition amount Anal analysis barrels base bill bought bushels called cent Change common compound contained cords cost cubic decimal denomination diameter difference discount divided dividend division divisor dollars equal example exchange factors feet figure Find foot FORM.-Since formula fraction gain gallon Give given gold greater hundred hundredths Illustrate inches integral interest length less LESSON loss measure merchant miles millions mills mixed MODEL OPERATION months Multiply ounces paid payment period pound premium prime principal Prob problem quotient receive Recite the rule Recite the table Reduce reduction ascending remainder REVIEW.-What rods rule sell shillings side simple sold square subtraction sugar ten-thousandths tens tenths term thousand thousandths units weight wide wood worth Write written yard
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Page 48 - TABLE. 4 gills (gi.) - make - - 1 pint, marked pt. 2 pints ------- 1 quart, - - - qt. 4 quarts ------ 1 gallon, - - - gal. 31£ gallons ------ 1 barrel, - - - bar.
Page 92 - The Denominator of a fraction shows the number of "equal parts into which the unit is divided, and gives the name to the fraction.
Page 289 - At ninety days sight of this first of Exchange, (the second and third of the same date and tenor unpaid,) pay George Lewis, Esq., or order, One Thousand Pounds sterling, with or without farther advice.
Page 24 - DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another.
Page 25 - It shows that the number before it is to be divided by the number after it. Thus 6 -i- 2 = 3 is read, 6 divided by 2 is equal to 3.
Page 90 - Mnltiple of two or more numbers is the least number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder ; thus 30 is the least common multiple of 10 and 15.
Page 269 - A FRUSTUM OF A PYRAMID is the part that remains after cutting off the top, by a plane parallel to the base.
Page 95 - 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 33 - Britain. 4 farthings (qr, or far.) make 1 penny, marked d. 12 pence " 1 shilling, " s. 20 shillings " 1 pound, or sovereign, £. 21 shillings " 1 guinea. OBS. 1. It is customary, at the present day, to express farthings in fractions of a penny. Thus, 1 qr. is written ;<!;•_
Page 232 - Find the amount of each payment from the time it was made to the time of settlement. III. Subtract the sum of the amounts of the payments from the amount of the principal, and the remainder will be the sum due.
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| Title | The Grammar-school Arithmetic: Being Book Second of the Analysis of Written Arithmetic : Designed for Public and Private Schools : Containing Mental, Slate, and Blackboard Exercises Natural series |
| Author | Stoddard A. Felter |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner & Company, 1868 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 340 pages |
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