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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acres amount annex barrels of flour bushels bushels of corn bushels of wheat centiares cents a pound ciphers column common denominator common fraction contained cords of wood cost cube cubic currency decimal places decimal point decimetre difference discount Divide dividend division dollars equal exact divisor EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE expressed feet figure following RULE gain gallons Give explanation given numbers greatest common divisor hectometres Hence the following hundred hundredths improper fraction inches integers interest least common multiple length less lowest terms measure metres metric system miles mills minuend mixed number months multiplicand Multiply notation NOTE OPERATION paid payment prime factors proper fraction purchase quotient rate per cent ratio receive Reduce remainder rods root sell simple numbers sold square subtract subtrahend sugar tens third thousand thousandths whole number worth yards of cloth
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Page 44 - Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another.
Page 161 - 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...
Page 69 - 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. A common divisor is sometimes called a Common Measure; and the greatest common divisor, the Greatest Common Measure.
Page 91 - 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 85 - To reduce fractions to their lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other; that is, when both terms have no common divisor. 1. Reduce the fraction -|| to its lowest terms.
Page 46 - If there lie a remainder after dividing any figure, regard it as prefixed to the figure of the next lower order in the dividend, and divide as before. IV. Should any figure or part...
Page 320 - 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 150 - Apothecaries' Weight is used by apothecaries and physicians in compounding medicines; but medicines are bought and sold by avoirdupois weight. TABLE. 20 grains (gr.) make 1 scruple, sc. or 9. 3 scruples " '1 dram, dr. or 38 drams " 1 ounce, oz. or §. 12 ounces
Page 319 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 311 - 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...