Arithmetic by Grades for Inductive Teaching, Drilling and Testing, Volume 5 |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acre amount apples barrel beef bill boards bought Brown bushel butter carpet cash cents Change cloth coal common containing cord corn cost cubic inches decimal denominator difference distance Divide dollar dozen Draw earn eggs Exercises factors farm fence field Find five floor flour foot four fractions gain gallon Give given gold grains holds hundred inches James land lines lot of land measure meat miles miles an hour milk month Multiply Name oats paid Parallelogram piece potatoes pound quart receive rectangular Reduce sell shillings silver sold square feet square rods square yards sugar thousand thousandths tons train walk week weighs wide wire wood worth Write
Popular passages
Page 58 - A pile of wood 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, and 4 ft. high is called a cord of wood.
Page 3 - Two men start 50 miles apart, and travel towards each other, the one at the rate of 4 miles an hour, and the other at the rate of 3 miles ; how far apart will they be at the end of 5 hours ? 20.
Page 54 - How many square feet in a floor 19ft. 3in. long, and 15ft. 9in. wide ? Ans. 303ft. 27in. 13. How many square yards of paper will it take to cover a room 14ft. 6in. long, 12ft. 6in. wide, and 8ft. 9in. high ? Ans.
Page 30 - ... past midnight ; what time was it ? 41. A man said that \ of the time past noon was equal to £ of the time to midnight ; what was the hour ? 42. A and В start from the same point, and travel in the same direction around a square, each side of which measures 5 miles ; A travels at the rate of 4| miles an hour, and В at the rate of 3 miles an hour ; in what time will they be together again ? How many miles will each have travelled ? How many times will each have been around the square ? 43.
Page 78 - LENGTH 12 inches (in.) = 1 foot (ft.) 3 feet = 1 yard (yd.) 5| yards = 1 rod (rd.) 320 rods = 1 mile (mi.) 1 mile = 1,760 yd.
Page 78 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard...
Page 22 - If 7 men can do a piece of work in 4f days, how long will it take 1 man to do it ? How long will it take 3 men to do it ? 4.
Page 7 - How many barrels of apples at $3-£ a barrel will pay for 18 tons of hay at $16.50 a ton ? 6.
Page 3 - A tailor sold two coats for $26 each ; on one he gained 30 per cent., and on the other he lost 30 per cent. ; did he gain or lose on both, and how much ? 20. A music dealer sold a piano-forte for $230, which was 8 per cent. less than its value ; had...