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Simple numbers 5 Of Common Divisors 95 Sinple Addition 5 Fractions Reduced 96 Simple Multiplication 8 Common Multiples 97 Sirople Subtraction 1 : 3 Common Denominators 98 Simple Division 16 Reduction of Fractions 100 Sect . 3.
Simple numbers 5 Of Common Divisors 95 Sinple Addition 5 Fractions Reduced 96 Simple Multiplication 8 Common Multiples 97 Sirople Subtraction 1 : 3 Common Denominators 98 Simple Division 16 Reduction of Fractions 100 Sect . 3.
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The Arabic characters are those in common use . They are the ten following : O cipher , or zero , 1 one , 2 two , 3. three , 4 four , 5 five , 6 six , 7 seven , 8 eight , 9 nine . The above characters , taken one at a time , denote all ...
The Arabic characters are those in common use . They are the ten following : O cipher , or zero , 1 one , 2 two , 3. three , 4 four , 5 five , 6 six , 7 seven , 8 eight , 9 nine . The above characters , taken one at a time , denote all ...
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The common way of performing the above operation is to write the numbers under one another , so that units 36 cents . shall stand under units , and tens under tens , as at the 23 cents . left hand . Then begin at the bottom of the right ...
The common way of performing the above operation is to write the numbers under one another , so that units 36 cents . shall stand under units , and tens under tens , as at the 23 cents . left hand . Then begin at the bottom of the right ...
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How many days in a of money , one contains 6462 common year , there being in dollars , one 8294 dollars , and January 31 days , in February the other 5749 dollars ; how 28 , in March 31 , in April 30 , many dollars in the three in May ...
How many days in a of money , one contains 6462 common year , there being in dollars , one 8294 dollars , and January 31 days , in February the other 5749 dollars ; how 28 , in March 31 , in April 30 , many dollars in the three in May ...
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each boy will received of an apple , or the quotient of 3 divided by 4 , and gencrally a Vulgar , or Common Fraction denotes the division of the numerator by the denominator ( 22 , 103 ) The fraction $ , for example , denotes that 1 is ...
each boy will received of an apple , or the quotient of 3 divided by 4 , and gencrally a Vulgar , or Common Fraction denotes the division of the numerator by the denominator ( 22 , 103 ) The fraction $ , for example , denotes that 1 is ...
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Page 82 - 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 89 - The greatest common divisor of two or more numbers, is the greatest number which will divide them without a remainder. Thus 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, 24, and 30.
Page 118 - PROBLEM II. The first term, the last term, and the number of terms 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 diffcrenct.
Page 111 - 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 94 - It will be seen that we multiply the denominator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor for the denominator of the quotient, and the numerator of the dividend by the denominator of the divisor for the numerator of the quotient.
Page 120 - Add together the most convenient indices to make an index less by 1 than the number expressing the place of the term sought. 3. Multiply the terms of the geometrical series together belonging to those indices, and make the product a dividend. 4. Raise...
Page 115 - 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 31 - RULE. 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 2 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 93 - Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator.
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| Title | The Youth's Assistant in Theoretic and Practical Arithmetic: Designed for the Use of Schools in the United States |
| Author | Zadock Thompson |
| Publisher | H. Johnson, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 164 pages |
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