Intellectual Arithmetic: Upon the Inductive Method of InstructionHilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1836 - 172 pages |
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100 dollars 12 dollars 30 dollars 9 dollars analytic induction asked the age barrel cost barrel of flour barrels of cider bought broadcloth bushel cost bushels of corn bushels of wheat cents apiece cloth cost contained cost 2 dollars divided dollars a barrel dollars a yard eight cents eight dollars eighteen Eleven equal farthings feet fifths firkins of butter five dollars flour cost Forty-eight Forty-seven four dollars Fourteen gallons gave gills give them apiece half halves horses eat hundred weight improper fraction lars lowest terms miles months nails Nineteen oranges cost paid pears pence penny perform piece pints plate pole pound cost provisions will serve pupil quarters wide quarts rectangles Reduce rods seven dollars Seventeen sevenths sheep shillings a bushel six cents Sixteen sixths sold square subtraction tenths Thirteen three dollars twelve dollars week whole numbers yards cost yards of cloth
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