New Practical Arithmetic: for Grammar DepartmentsClark & Maynard, 1879 - 376 pages |
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acres ANALYSIS ANALYSIS.-The annexed apiece Avoirdupois barrels base bill bought bushels called cancelling cents ciphers common denominator common difference common fraction complex fractions composite number compound numbers contained cost Cube root cubic decimal figures decimal point denotes discount dividend dollars equal exact divisor expressed feet gallons given numbers greatest common divisor Hence hundred hundredths improper fraction inches interest last term least common multiple less lowest terms mean price measure meters miles mixed number multiplicand multiply Note NOTES.-I number is divisible number of terms OPERATION paid payt period pounds premium prime factors prime number principal proceed profit or loss proportional quarts quotient ratio Reduce remainder rods rule RULE.-Divide RULE.-I RULE.-Multiply sell side simple sold square root subtract tens tenths thousandths trial divisor units weight whole number worth yards ΙΟ
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Page 87 - The greatest common divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder. Thus 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, and 24.
Page 265 - Find the amount of each payment from the time it was made to the time of settlement. III. Subtract the sum of the amounts of the payments from the amount of the principal, and the remainder will be the sum due.
Page 355 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 336 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Page 347 - That is, the first term of an increasing arithmetical series is equal to the last term diminished by the product of the common difference into the number of terms less one.
Page 148 - 03, the same as before. IT 73. The foregoing examples and remarks are sufficient to establish the following RULE. In the division of decimal fractions, divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many figures for decimals, as the decimal figures in the dividend exceed those in the divisor, and if there are not so many figures in the quotient, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers.
Page 184 - The terms folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, etc., indicate the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper is folded. A sheet folded in 2 leaves is called a Folio.
Page 333 - 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...
Page 307 - 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 59 - PROOF. Multiply the divisor and quotient together, and to the product add the remainder, if any; if the result be equal to the dividend, the work is correct.