Adam's New Arithmetic: Arithmetic, in which the Principles of Operating by Numbers are Analytically Explained and Synthetically Applied... |
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... Common Denominator , how found , Least Common Multiple , how found , · Rule for the Addition and Subtraction of Fractions , Reduction of Fractions , DECIMAL . Their Notation , Addition and Subtraction of Decimal Fractions ...
... Common Denominator , how found , Least Common Multiple , how found , · Rule for the Addition and Subtraction of Fractions , Reduction of Fractions , DECIMAL . Their Notation , Addition and Subtraction of Decimal Fractions ...
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... common , or Julian year , · yr . 4 weeks 13 months , 1 day and 6 hours , or 365 days and 6 hours , 37. The year is also divided into 12 calendar months , which , in the order of their succession , are numbered as fol- lows , viz . 1st ...
... common , or Julian year , · yr . 4 weeks 13 months , 1 day and 6 hours , or 365 days and 6 hours , 37. The year is also divided into 12 calendar months , which , in the order of their succession , are numbered as fol- lows , viz . 1st ...
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... common divisor , or common mea- sure of those numbers . The greatest number that will do this is called the greatest common divisor . 1. What part of an acre are 128 rods ? T 45 , 46 . 05 FRACTIONS .
... common divisor , or common mea- sure of those numbers . The greatest number that will do this is called the greatest common divisor . 1. What part of an acre are 128 rods ? T 45 , 46 . 05 FRACTIONS .
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... common to both terms , and , di- viding , we reduce the fraction to its equal , which is now in its lowest terms ... common divisor of the two terms . The greatest common measure of any two numbers may be found by a sort of trial easily ...
... common to both terms , and , di- viding , we reduce the fraction to its equal , which is now in its lowest terms ... common divisor of the two terms . The greatest common measure of any two numbers may be found by a sort of trial easily ...
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... common divisor required . Note . It is evident , that , when we would find the greatest common divisor of more than two numbers , we may first find the greatest common divisor of two numbers , and then of that common divisor and one of ...
... common divisor required . Note . It is evident , that , when we would find the greatest common divisor of more than two numbers , we may first find the greatest common divisor of two numbers , and then of that common divisor and one of ...
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Page 217 - 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 77 - TABLE. 2 pints (pts.) make - 1 quart, - marked - qt. 8 quarts 1 peck, pk. 4 pecks ----- 1 bushel, ----- bu. 36 bushels ----- 1 chaldron, - - - - ch. Note. A gallon, dry measure, contains 268f cubic inches. A Winchester bushel is 18£ inches in diameter, 8 inches deep, and contains 2150$ cubic inches.
Page 139 - Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 244 - A man was hired 50 days on these conditions, — that, for every day he worked, he should receive $ '75, and, for every day he was idle, he should forfeit $ '25 ; at the expiration of the time, he received $27'50; how many days did he work...
Page 80 - Reduce 9s. 13', 25' to seconds. • 72. In 1020300", how many degrees ? The following are denominations of things not included in the Tables : — 12 particular things - make - 1 dozen. 12 dozen -,------1 gross. 12 gross, or 144 dozen, - - - - 1 great gross. Also, 20 particular things - make - 1 score.
Page 105 - Divide the greater number by the less, and that divisor by the remainder, and so on, always dividing the last divisor by the last remainder, till nothing remain.
Page 259 - EF, or his certain attorney, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrates, firmly by these presents.
Page 221 - The first term, the last term, and the number of terms be ing given, to find the common difference. RULE. — (') Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference. liiieslinn. — 1. How do you find the common difference? EXAMPLES. 1. The extremes are 2 and 53, and the number of terms 18, required the
Page 126 - How does it appear, that in multiplying both terms of the fraction by the same number the value of the fraction is not altered?
Page 102 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : ^Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product ad,d the numerator, and write the result over the denominator, EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.