Conversations on arithmeticSouter and Law, School Library, 131 Fleet Street, 1843 - 446 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acres aliquot amongst amount ancient annum Answer Arithmetic Arithmetical Progression avoirdupois bought bushels called cent ciphers coined common difference compound CONSTANTIA contained CONVERSATION copper cost crowns cube root cubic cubit CUNOBELINUS dear decimal denarius denominator Divide dividend divisor Drachma dwts English equal number Examples farthings figure gallons give given number gold grains greater guineas hundred improper fraction inches interest jugerum Julius Cæsar King LAVINIA less London lowest terms Mamma metic middle term miles mixed number moidore months Multiply number of terms Obolus ounce pence penny person pieces pints poles pound proceed proper quantity Proportion quart quotient reckoning Reduce reign remainder right hand Roman sack Saxons Sestertius shillings silver simple fraction sovereign square root subtract suppose thousand tion Troy TROY WEIGHT Vulgar Fractions weight whole number wine yards
Passagens conhecidas
Página 315 - RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator: then reduce the new fraction to its lowest terms.
Página 299 - OPERATIONS WITH FRACTIONS A) To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, simply multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction and add the numerator.
Página 182 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they...
Página 142 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning : for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Página 91 - Weight. ?0 grains (gr.) make 1 scruple, 9 3 scruples, 1 dram, 3 8 drams, 1 ounce, 3 12 ounces, 1 pound, ft Apothecaries use this weight in compounding their medicines.
Página 143 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Página 297 - Find a common measure, by dividing the greater term by the less, and this divisor by the remainder, and so on, always dividing the last divisor by the last remainder, till nothing remains; the last divisor is the common measure.* 2. Divide both of the terms of the fraction by the common measure, aud the quotients will make the fraction required. * To find the greatest common measure...
Página 143 - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Página 104 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year, that's the time When February's days are twenty-nine.
Página 300 - Divide the numerator by the denominator, and the quotient will be the whole, or mixed number required.