The Western Practical Arithmetic ...: Containing a Great Variety of Exercises, Particularly Adapted to the Currency of the United States: to which is Added a Short System of Book-keeping, Designed for the Use of Schools and Private SchoolsE. Morgan & Company, 1851 - 252 strani |
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100 dollars 50 cents acres amount annum arithmetic barrels bers Bought bushels common difference compound compound interest containing cords cost cube root cubic cyphers decimal denomination diameter divide divisor dollars 25 cents dollars per cent dols drams ells EXAMPLES exceed 12 EXERCISES feet 6 inches feet long feet wide fourths furlongs gain gallons given number given sum grains hogsheads hundred weight improper fraction interest last term less lowest terms MEASURE metic miles minuend months Multiply neat weight number of terms ounces pecks pennyweights perches pints Place the numbers pounds proceed proportion quantity quarts quotient rate per cent ratio Reduce 23 Reduce 32 remainder rods roods RULE sold square feet square root square yards subtract sugar tare tons TROY WEIGHT VULGAR FRACTIONS whole number yards of cloth
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Stran 53 - MONEY. 10 mills = 1 cent. 10 cents = 1 dime. 10 dimes = 1 dollar. 10 dollars = 1 eagle.
Stran 51 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February hath twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have thirty-one ; Except in leap year, at which time February's days are twenty-nine.
Stran 89 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Stran 60 - Place the numbers so that those of the same denomination may stand directly under each other.
Stran 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Stran 51 - TABLE. 60 seconds (sec.) make 1 minute, min. 60 minutes, " 1 hour, h. 24 hours, " 1 day, da. 7 days, " 1 week, wk. 365 days, " 1 common year, yr. 366 days, " 1 leap year, yr. 12 calendar months,
Stran 161 - To find the circumference of a circle when the diameter is given, or the diameter when the circumference is given.
Stran 176 - There is a cistern or vat of a cubical form which contains 1331 cubical feet: what are the length, breadth, and depth of it? Ans. each 1 1 feet.
Stran 169 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend.
Stran 162 - Railroad and transportation companies estimate light freight by the number of cubic feet it occupies ; but heavy freight is estimated...