The Progressive Practical Arithmetic: Containing the Theory of Numbers, in Connection with Concise Analytic and Synthetic Methods of Solution, and Designed as a Complete Text-book on this Science : for Common Schools and Academies |
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... Progression ,. 821 ........ Analysis , ... 288 Alligation Medial , .. 297 Promiscuous Examples , .. 824 Alligation Alternate , .. 298 Mensuration , 832 PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC . DEFINITIONS . 1. Quantity is any thing vi CONTENTS .
... Progression ,. 821 ........ Analysis , ... 288 Alligation Medial , .. 297 Promiscuous Examples , .. 824 Alligation Alternate , .. 298 Mensuration , 832 PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC . DEFINITIONS . 1. Quantity is any thing vi CONTENTS .
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... ANALYSIS . Arranging the num- bers as in Case I , we first add the column of units , and find the sum to be 17 units , which is 1 ten and 7 units . We write the 7 units in the place of units , and the 1 ten in the place of tens . The ...
... ANALYSIS . Arranging the num- bers as in Case I , we first add the column of units , and find the sum to be 17 units , which is 1 ten and 7 units . We write the 7 units in the place of units , and the 1 ten in the place of tens . The ...
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... ANALYSIS . In this example we cannot take 9 units from 6 units . From the 4 tens we take 1 ten , which equals 10 units , and add to the 6 units , making 16 units ; 9 units from 16 units leave 7 units , which we write in the remainder in ...
... ANALYSIS . In this example we cannot take 9 units from 6 units . From the 4 tens we take 1 ten , which equals 10 units , and add to the 6 units , making 16 units ; 9 units from 16 units leave 7 units , which we write in the remainder in ...
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... ANALYSIS . Writing the numbers as before , we begin at the right hand or unit figure , and say : 6 times 4 units are 24 units , which is 2 tens and 4 units ; write the 4 units in the product in units ' place , and reserve the 2 tens to ...
... ANALYSIS . Writing the numbers as before , we begin at the right hand or unit figure , and say : 6 times 4 units are 24 units , which is 2 tens and 4 units ; write the 4 units in the product in units ' place , and reserve the 2 tens to ...
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... ANALYSIS . Since 4 dollars will buy one hat , 20 dollars will buy as many hats as 4 is contained times in 20 , which is 5 times . There- fore , 5 hats , at 4 dollars apiece , can be bought for 20 dollars . 2. A man gave 16 dollars for 8 ...
... ANALYSIS . Since 4 dollars will buy one hat , 20 dollars will buy as many hats as 4 is contained times in 20 , which is 5 times . There- fore , 5 hats , at 4 dollars apiece , can be bought for 20 dollars . 2. A man gave 16 dollars for 8 ...
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Page 46 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 167 - 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 71 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Numbers prime to each other are such as have no common divisor. NOTE. A common divisor is sometimes called a Common Measure; and the greatest common divisor, the Greatest Common Measure.
Page 50 - If any partial dividend will not contain the divisor, place a cipher in the quotient, and bring down the next figure of the dividend, and divide as before.
Page 93 - To reduce fractions to the least common denominator. The Least Common Denominator of two or more fractions is the least denominator to which they can all be reduced, and it must be the least common multiple of the lowest denominators.
Page 191 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...
Page 38 - RULE. I. Write the multiplier under the multiplicand, placing units of the same order under each other. II. Multiply the multiplicand by each figure of the multiplier successively, beginning with the unit figure, and write the first figure of each partial product under the figure of the multiplier used, writing down and carrying as in addition. III. If there are partial products, add them, and their sum will be the product required.
Page 165 - Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea is in the proportion of Thirty-Six Inches to Thirty-Nine Inches and one thousand three hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandth Parts of an Inch...
Page 66 - Divide the given number by any prime factor ; divide the quotient in the same manner, and so continue the division until the quotient is a prime number. The several divisors and the last quotient will be the prime factors required.
Page 193 - To find the difference of longitude between two places, when the difference of time is known. 1. If the difference of time between New York and Cincinnati be 41 min. 32 sec., what is the difference of longitude ? OPERATION. ANALYSIS. Since 4 minutes of time min. sec. make a difference of 1°...