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... difference ? If you should buy twenty - five pounds of raisins , and the grocer should send them home in two bundles , one of which should weigh thirteen pounds , how many pounds ought the other parcel to weigh ? If nineteen persons be ...
... difference ? If you should buy twenty - five pounds of raisins , and the grocer should send them home in two bundles , one of which should weigh thirteen pounds , how many pounds ought the other parcel to weigh ? If nineteen persons be ...
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... difference in what di- rection it be cut , if the parts be equal . many halves are there in a whole thing ? If a piece of paper be cut into four equal parts , it is divided into fourths , or quarters . How many quarters are there in a ...
... difference in what di- rection it be cut , if the parts be equal . many halves are there in a whole thing ? If a piece of paper be cut into four equal parts , it is divided into fourths , or quarters . How many quarters are there in a ...
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... difference between two eighths and one quar- ter ? Or between four eighths and a half ? Or six eighths and three quarters ? Note . The instructer should here teach the pupils to give the lowest terms . What part of nine is three ? What ...
... difference between two eighths and one quar- ter ? Or between four eighths and a half ? Or six eighths and three quarters ? Note . The instructer should here teach the pupils to give the lowest terms . What part of nine is three ? What ...
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... difference between 24567 and 7456 ? Ans . 17111 . 2. I lent a friend 2456 dollars and received in part 1342 Ans . 1114 dolls . dollars ; what remains due ? S. A merchant owes 34323 dollars , his effects are 10 SIMPLE SUBTRACTION .
... difference between 24567 and 7456 ? Ans . 17111 . 2. I lent a friend 2456 dollars and received in part 1342 Ans . 1114 dolls . dollars ; what remains due ? S. A merchant owes 34323 dollars , his effects are 10 SIMPLE SUBTRACTION .
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... difference between a larger and a smaller number , which have several denominations . RULE . Write down ( 2 ) the largest of the two numbers first , and under it write down the smallest ; observing ( 3 ) to place every denomination ...
... difference between a larger and a smaller number , which have several denominations . RULE . Write down ( 2 ) the largest of the two numbers first , and under it write down the smallest ; observing ( 3 ) to place every denomination ...
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Page 81 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Page 64 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Page 214 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 84 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 109 - RULE.—Multiply each payment by the time at which it is due; then divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments, and the quotient will be the equated time.* • , EXAMPLES.
Page 92 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for. a new denominator.
Page 193 - RULE. — To the square of the bung diameter add the square of the head diameter ; multiply the sum by the length, and the product by .0014 for ale gallons, or by .0017 for wine gallons.
Page 149 - 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 204 - There is an island 50 miles in circumference, and three men start together to travel the same way about it ; A goes 7 miles per day, B 8, and C 9 ; when will they all come together again, and how far will they travel ? Ans.
Page 163 - As 7 is to 22, so is the diameter to the circumference : or, as 22 is to 7, so is the circumference to the diameter.