Lewis's Primary ArithmeticD.C. Heath, 1915 - 252 σελίδες |
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12 cents 25 cents addends apiece apples Article barrel BLACKBOARD DRILL bought bushels cents a pound Children write ciphers column common fraction contains Count cows cubic feet cubic inches decimal figures decimal point dimes Divide dividend and divisor division dollars dozen earn eggs equal factors farmer Find five foot four gallons greatest common divisor hundred hundredths improper fraction integer John least common denominator least common multiple less lowest terms marbles minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply number story Oral ounces paid pecks pencils picture pints pupils quarts Question quotient Reduce remainder sell sheep sold square inches square mile square rods square yards strips Subtract subtrahend ten-thousandths tens thousand thousandths three counters tons trees TROY WEIGHT two-cent piece units weeks wide written yards of cloth
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Σελίδα 136 - Having set the given numbers in a line, divide by any PRIME number that will divide two or more of them...
Σελίδα 113 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Σελίδα 198 - Table : 144 square inches [sq. in.] . make 1 square foot sq. ft. 9 square feet make 1 square yard sq. yd. 30£ sq.
Σελίδα 231 - It contains how many cubic feet ? A pile of wood 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long contains how many cord feet?
Σελίδα 115 - There being 8 pecks in a bushel, how many bushels in a bin ? 10. There are 8 pints in a gallon. How many gallons in 96 pints of vinegar ? . 11. A dime is ten cents, and there are 10 dimes in a dollar. How many dollars are there in 80 dimes ? 12. A laborer earns 56 dollars in 7 weeks. How much does he earn in 1 week ? 13. If 11 boxes of berries sell for 77 cents, what is the price of 1 box ? 14. I pay 77 cents for berries at 7 cents a box. How many boxes do I purchase ? 15. Bought 9 yards of cloth...
Σελίδα 232 - How many gallons of water in a tank whose capacity is 150 cubic feet ? 7. How many cubic feet in a cistern that will hold 1500 gallons of water? 266. Capacity of Bins. 8. A bushel fills 2150.42 cubic inches of space, which is 1|- cu. ft., nearly. NOTE. — In estimating large quantities of grain it is sufficiently accurate to reckon 1J cu. ft. to the bushel. 9. How many bushels of grain will a bin hold that is 6 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, and 4 ft. deep? (Indicate and cancel.) Solve both ways and note...
Σελίδα 203 - WEIGHT is the common weight, used ic weighing groceries, and all coarse commodities. 16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce. oz 16 ounces make 1 pound. Ib 28 pounds make I quarter. qr 4 quarters make 1 hundred-weight. cwt 20 hundred-weight . . . make 1 ton. T APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT is used for the purpose 01 compounding medicines, but not in selling them.
Σελίδα 176 - The denominator of a decimal fraction must be 10, or 100, or 1000, etc. NOTE. — The word decimal comes from the Latin word decem, ten, and so the denominator of every decimal fraction is 10, or 10 x 10, or 10 X 10 x 10, etc.
Σελίδα 120 - To divide by any number ending in one or more ciphers, cut off from the right-hand side of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers at the right side of the divisor.
Σελίδα 150 - ... NOTE. — The change in the terms of the fractions, in reducing them to the least common denominator by this process, depends upon the same principle as explained in the preceding article. RULE. — 1. Find the least common multiple of the denominators of the several fractions, and it will be their least common denominator.