Arithmetic, in Two Parts ...

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D. Bixby & Company, 1848 - 298 sider

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Side 255 - The product of the sum and difference of two numbers is equal to the difference of their squares.
Side 221 - B $ 600, of which $ 200 is to be paid at the present time, 200 in 4 months, and 200 in 8 months ; what is the equated time for the payment of the whole ? Ans.
Side 65 - Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for. a new denominator.
Side 258 - To find the specific gravity of a body heavier than water. Weigh the body both in air and in water.
Side 28 - M. 60 minutes, 1 hour, h. 24 hours, 1 day, d. 7 days, 1 week, ' w. 4 weeks, 1 month, mo. 13 months, 1 day and 6 hours, 1 Julian year, yr. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February twenty-eight alone, all the rest have thirty-one.
Side 248 - If several quantities are in continued proportion, they will be proportional when the order of the whole is inverted. This has already been proved with...
Side 181 - If 1 horse eat | of a bushel of oats in a day, how many bushels will 10 horses eat in 6 days ? Ans.
Side 11 - One hundred twenty-five is called the third power of 5, because it may be obtained by using 5 three times as a factor. It is called the cube of 5, because it is the number of cubic units in a cube whose edge is 5 linear units.
Side 176 - Divide the greater number by the less, the divisor by the remainder, and thus continue to divide the last divisor by the last remainder until there is no remainder ; the last divisor will be the greatest common divisor.
Side 43 - TROT .WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) make 1 penny-weight, marked dwt, 20 penny-weights 1 ounce oz. 12 ounces 1 pound Ib.

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