Written ArithmeticBrewer & Tileston, 1876 |
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... months is $ 52 , what is the interest of three times that sum for eight months ? Ans . $ 104 . 18. If 12 men can build a wall in 42 days , how many days will be required for 21 men to build it ?? 19. If $ 15 purchase 12 yards of cloth ...
... months is $ 52 , what is the interest of three times that sum for eight months ? Ans . $ 104 . 18. If 12 men can build a wall in 42 days , how many days will be required for 21 men to build it ?? 19. If $ 15 purchase 12 yards of cloth ...
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... months ? persons , 16 * What number is that from which if you take , the re- mainder will be ? 17. What number is that to which if you add 97 , the sum will be 124 % ? 18. What is that number to which if you add & of 261 , the sum will ...
... months ? persons , 16 * What number is that from which if you take , the re- mainder will be ? 17. What number is that to which if you add 97 , the sum will be 124 % ? 18. What is that number to which if you add & of 261 , the sum will ...
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... month are $ 354 , and if the wages of 3 boys are equal to the wages of 2 men , what will be the wages of 10 men and 30 boys for a month ? 59. What is that number to which if g of itself be added the sum will equal 64 ? Ans . 40 . 60 ...
... month are $ 354 , and if the wages of 3 boys are equal to the wages of 2 men , what will be the wages of 10 men and 30 boys for a month ? 59. What is that number to which if g of itself be added the sum will equal 64 ? Ans . 40 . 60 ...
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... months 4 days of time . 153. Reduction is the process of changing the denomi- nation of numbers without altering their value . 154. Reduction Descending is the process of changing numbers to numbers of equal value in lower denominations ...
... months 4 days of time . 153. Reduction is the process of changing the denomi- nation of numbers without altering their value . 154. Reduction Descending is the process of changing numbers to numbers of equal value in lower denominations ...
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... months , weeks , days , hours , minutes and seconds . TABLE . 60 seconds ( s . ) = 1 minute , marked m . 60 m . = 1 hour , 66 h . 24 h . = 1 day , 66 d . 7 d . = 1 week , 66 W. 66 52 w . 1 d . or 365 d . 1 common year , c . y . 366 d ...
... months , weeks , days , hours , minutes and seconds . TABLE . 60 seconds ( s . ) = 1 minute , marked m . 60 m . = 1 hour , 66 h . 24 h . = 1 day , 66 d . 7 d . = 1 week , 66 W. 66 52 w . 1 d . or 365 d . 1 common year , c . y . 366 d ...
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Page 117 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 268 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. III. Double the root already found for a divisor ; seek how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend...
Page 68 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 289 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called a circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Page 306 - The sum of all the terms. Any three of which being given, the other two may be found.
Page 114 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as AEFGBD.
Page 278 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 306 - ... found. This gives rise to twenty distinct cases, a few of the more important of which will be here presented. NOTE I. — For the remaining cases, also for full discussions of Geometrical Progression and Annuities, the student is referred to works on Algebra.
Page 10 - L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand.
Page 248 - The first and fourth terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the second and third terms, the means. Thus, in the foregoing proportion, 8 and 3 are the extremes and 4 and 6 are the means.