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... names would you call the two numbers ? ( 98 ) 11. What is the difference called ? 12. If the minuend and subtra ... name would you call the number divided [ 105 ] 20. What would you call the other number ? 21. By what name would you call ...
... names would you call the two numbers ? ( 98 ) 11. What is the difference called ? 12. If the minuend and subtra ... name would you call the number divided [ 105 ] 20. What would you call the other number ? 21. By what name would you call ...
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... names of the places , each way from that of units are the same , excepting the termination th , or ths , which is added to the name of the last , or right hand place , in the enunciation of decimals . EXERCISES . 1. What do you ...
... names of the places , each way from that of units are the same , excepting the termination th , or ths , which is added to the name of the last , or right hand place , in the enunciation of decimals . EXERCISES . 1. What do you ...
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... name is given to num- bers , which express parts in this mauner ? ( 114 ) 6. How are decimals distinguish- ed from integers ? What are inte- gers ? 7. How would you write 12 feet and 3 tenths ? 8. Have figures in decimals a lo- cal ...
... name is given to num- bers , which express parts in this mauner ? ( 114 ) 6. How are decimals distinguish- ed from integers ? What are inte- gers ? 7. How would you write 12 feet and 3 tenths ? 8. Have figures in decimals a lo- cal ...
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... name may stand directly under each other . Begin with the lowest denomination , and take the number in the lower line from the one standing over : proceed in the same way with all the denominations . Should the number in the upper line ...
... name may stand directly under each other . Begin with the lowest denomination , and take the number in the lower line from the one standing over : proceed in the same way with all the denominations . Should the number in the upper line ...
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... names and val- pes of the coins of the United States ? 5. What are the most common foreign coins what their several values ? 6. What is the table of time ? 7. How is the year commonly di vided ? Repeat the number of days in each month ...
... names and val- pes of the coins of the United States ? 5. What are the most common foreign coins what their several values ? 6. What is the table of time ? 7. How is the year commonly di vided ? Repeat the number of days in each month ...
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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.