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... Average of Payments when the Terms of Credit begin at Different Dates 359 Savings Banks Accounts 360 Settlement of Accounts 362 Supplementary Measurements 363 Division by Factors . 368 The Greatest Common Measure of Fractions 369 The ...
... Average of Payments when the Terms of Credit begin at Different Dates 359 Savings Banks Accounts 360 Settlement of Accounts 362 Supplementary Measurements 363 Division by Factors . 368 The Greatest Common Measure of Fractions 369 The ...
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... Average of numbers . The number which can be put for each of them without altering their sum . Average of payments . The average time at which several payments due at different dates may be made . Bank . An establishment for the custody ...
... Average of numbers . The number which can be put for each of them without altering their sum . Average of payments . The average time at which several payments due at different dates may be made . Bank . An establishment for the custody ...
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... average 40 miles an hour , how far will it go in 24 hours ? 20. A ton is 2000 pounds . How many pounds are there in 50 tons ? 21. If a barrel of kerosene oil holds 42 gallons , how many gallons are there in 600 barrels ? 22. A clock ...
... average 40 miles an hour , how far will it go in 24 hours ? 20. A ton is 2000 pounds . How many pounds are there in 50 tons ? 21. If a barrel of kerosene oil holds 42 gallons , how many gallons are there in 600 barrels ? 22. A clock ...
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... average 897 men . 35. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds . How many pounds will 175 barrels weigh ? 36. If an oil well produces 327 barrels of oil a day , how many barrels will it produce in 28 days ? 37. How many pounds of cotton will ...
... average 897 men . 35. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds . How many pounds will 175 barrels weigh ? 36. If an oil well produces 327 barrels of oil a day , how many barrels will it produce in 28 days ? 37. How many pounds of cotton will ...
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... average 20 inches ? 13. At 6 dollars a barrel , how many barrels of flour can be bought for 1140 dollars ? 14. If 9 carloads of freight weigh 147,114 pounds , what is the average weight of the carloads ? 15. If sound moves 10,080 feet ...
... average 20 inches ? 13. At 6 dollars a barrel , how many barrels of flour can be bought for 1140 dollars ? 14. If 9 carloads of freight weigh 147,114 pounds , what is the average weight of the carloads ? 15. If sound moves 10,080 feet ...
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acres annual interest annuity average bought bushels called cents a pound cistern coal common fraction compound interest contains cords cube root cubic feet cubic foot decimal point denominator diameter discount dividend divisor dollars equal EXERCISE expressed figures Find the amount Find the cost Find the interest Find the number Find the product frustum gallons given number grand list hundred hundredths improper fraction inches integral number kilograms least common multiple length long tons longitude marked price meter miles million minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply paid payment pints quarts quotient rate per cent ratio rectangular Reduce remainder rods Sept short ton sold SOLUTION square square miles subtract subtrahend taxation tens term thousand tons units weighs wheat whole number wide worth write WRITTEN yards
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Page 355 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 148 - Dry Measure 2 pints (pt.) =1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts = 1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu.) 2150.42 cu.
Page 339 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 156 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches (cu. in.) = 1 cubic foot (cu. ft.) 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard (cu. yd.) 128 cubic feet = 1 cord (cd...
Page 270 - ... is equal to the square root of the difference of the squares of the hypotenuse and the other side.
Page 144 - LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills (gi.) = 1 pint (pt.) 2 pints — 1 quart (qt...
Page 268 - Multiply the divisor, thus increased, by the last figure of the root; subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend. 5. Double the whole root already found for a new divisor, and continue the operation as before, until all the periods are brought down. NOTE.
Page 249 - That is, in any proportion either extreme is equal to the product of the means divided by the other extreme ; and either mean is equal to the product of the extremes divided by the other mean.
Page 83 - In this and the following examples, answers to the nearest hundredth are sufficiently correct. 11. A cubic foot of platinum, the heaviest substance known, weighs 1365 pounds. A cubic foot of water weighs 62.5 pounds. How many times as heavy as water is platinum ? 12. How many times as heavy as water is common sand, a cubic foot of sand weighing 103 pounds ? 13. Granite is 2.72 times as heavy as water. Find the weight of a cubic foot of granite. 14. Wrought iron is 7.77 times as heavy as water. Find...
Page 154 - Square Measure 144 square inches (sq. in.) = 1 square foot (sq. ft.) 9 square feet = 1 square yard (sq. yd.) 30j square yards = 1 square rod (sq.