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Σελίδα 4 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes «= 1 Hour 24 Hours => 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days =• 1 Lunar Month...
Σελίδα 16 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Σελίδα 4 - Square Measure 144 square inches = 1 square foot 9 square feet = 1 square yard...
Σελίδα 69 - To reduce fractions of different denominators to equivalent fractions having a common denominator. RULE.! Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Σελίδα 5 - Thirty days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, which alone Has twenty-eight ; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
Σελίδα 4 - Long Measure. 3 barleycorns 1 inch 12 inches 1 foot 3 feet 1 yard 6 feet 1 fathom...
Σελίδα 67 - Given the prime cost and rate per cent. to find the selling price. RULE. As 100 : Is to 100 with the rate per cent. added in case of gain, or subtracted in case of loss : : So is the prime cost : To the selling price.
Σελίδα 74 - Sir," said I, after puzzling a long time over "more requiring more and less requiring less" — "will you tell me why I sometimes multiply the second and third terms together and divide by the first — and at other times multiply the first and second and divide by the third?" "Why, because more requires more sometimes, and sometimes it requires less — to be sure. Haven't you read the rule, my boy?" " Yes, sir, I can repeat the rule, but I don't understand it.
Σελίδα 69 - To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. — Divide the numerator and denominator by any number that will measure them ; that is, that will divide them without a remainder. Do the same with the quotients as long as any number can be found to divide them.
Σελίδα 68 - 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.