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 Anal barrels bill blackboard bushels centimetres Change cipher common fraction compound interest compound numbers contained cost cube cubic cubic foot currency decagrams decimal decimetres denomination diameter difference discount divided dividend division dollars dry measure equal exchange factors farthings feet FORM.-Since furlongs gain gallons Give the rule given gold greatest common divisor hundred hundred-thousandths hundredths Illustrate improper fraction inches least common multiple length LESSON measure miles millions mills minuend mixed number MODEL OPERATION months multiplicand Multiply ounces paid payment pecks pence period pound premium Prob problem quotient rate per cent ratio read the number Recite the rule Recite the table Reduce reduction ascending remainder REVIEW.-What rods Rule.-I Rule.-Multiply sell shillings sold square subtraction subtrahend sugar ten-thousandths tens tenths thousand thousandths troy weight units weight worth Write 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.