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12 days 20 feet ২৩ ২৩ ২৩ 50 cents acres amount annum answer required barter bbls bought braces at Leghorn bushels cancelled cargo cash cents per bushel ciphers contained decimal denomination diameter Divide dividend divisor dollars DRY MEASURE equal numbers EXAMPLES farthings feet long figures or numbers Flemish gain gallons given numbers hand figures hours a day hundred improper fraction inches broad inches wide interest lars left hand LONG MEASURE merchant miles minuend mixed fraction months ounces oxen paid pence pennyweights perpendicular line piasters picul pipe pounds pure proportion quarts quotient receive remainder right hand side rods rule of three shillings ship sold solid feet square sterling stick of timber SUBTRACTION Suppose thousand tons TROY WEIGHT wheat whole numbers worth yard wide yards cost yards of cloth York currency
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Page 34 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Page 29 - Multiply the integer of the quotient by the divisor, and to the product add the remainder, if any ; and the result will equal the dividend, if the work is right.
Page 35 - Measure. 3 barley corns (bc) make 1 inch, marked in. 12 inches, 1 foot, ft. 3 feet, 1 yard, yd. 5^ yards, 1 rod, pole, or perch.
Page 37 - RULE.* 1. Place the numbers so that those of the same denomination may stand directly under each other.
Page 17 - Place the subtrahend or less number, under the minuend or greater, and subtract units from units, tens from tens, and so on. If any figure of the subtrahend be greater than the corresponding one of the minuend, borrow ten...