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Page 41 - Divide the greater number by the smaller, and this divisor by the remainder, and thus continue dividing the last divisor by the last remainder, till nothing remains.
Page 69 - ... sheets, 16 pages in a sheet, 60 lines in a page, and 50 letters in a line ? Ans.
Page 103 - If 12 oxen eat 3£ acres of grass in 4 weeks, and 21 oxen eat 10 acres of the like pasture in 9 weeks, how many oxen will eat 24 acres in 18 weeks, the grass being at first equal on every acre, and growing uniformly ? This example, which is taken from Newton's Universal Arithmetic, can be solved most readily by making three distinct questions.
Page 100 - A fox starts 80 yards before a greyhound, and is not perceived by him till he has been up 45 seconds ; he scuds away at the rate of 9 miles an hour, and the hound pursues after him at the rate of 18 miles per hour.
Page 55 - AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. By this weight are weighed things of a coarse, drossy nature, that are bought and sold by weight, and all metals but silver and gold. The denominations of Avoirdupois Weight are ton, hundred-weight, quarter, pound, ounce, and dram.
Page 73 - If 7 men can reap 84 acres of wheat in 12 days ; how many men can reap 100 acres in 5 days ? If 84.-J.
Page 69 - If 4 compositors in 16 days of 12 hours long, can compose 14 sheets of 24 pages in each sheet, 44 lines in a page, and 40 letters in a line ; in how many days of...
Page 71 - A wall was to be built 700 yards long in 29 days; after 12 men had been employed on it for 11 days, it was found they had built only 220 yards. How many more men must be put on, to finish it in the given time ? 54.
Page 70 - ... days ? 45. If a garrison of 600 men have provisions for 5 weeks, allowing each man 12 ounces a day, how many men may be maintained 10 weeks with the same provisions, if each man is limited to 8 ounces a day ? 46. If 3 bushels and 3 pecks of wheat will last a family of 9 persons 22 days, in how many days will 6 persons consume 5 bushels ? 47. If 450 tiles, each 12 inches square, will pave my cellar, how many tiles must I have, if they are only 9 inches long and 8 inches broad ? 48.
Page 67 - If 10 bushels of oats be sufficient for 18 horses 20 days, how many bushels will serve 60 horses 36 days ? Ans.