First lessons in numbers in the natural order
John Homer French
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, Sept. 13, 2013)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... pail maker uses 10 staves in making one wooden pail. How many staves will he use in making 9 pails? 12. How many pieces of lightning-rod, each 9 feet long, will be required to reach from the top of a church steeple, 81 feet high, to the ground? 13. In building a chimney, a mason laid 9 courses of bricks in an hour. How many hours did it take him to lay 90 courses? 14. A teamster drew 9 loads of stone each day for 9 days. How many loads did he draw? 15. How many hours will it take a steamboat, running at the rate of 10 miles an hour, to make a trip of 90 miles? 16. A barber's price for shaving one man, is 10 cents. How much will he receive for shaving 10 men? 17. How much will a music teachei receive from 10 scholars, in one. quarter, if each one pays her 9 dollars? 18. How many dimes in one dollar, or 100 cents? SECTION X. Fractional parts of Numbers.--Halves. J.. When any number of things is divided into two equal parts, each part is One Half of the number of things. If I divide 2 pine-apples equally between two persons, each person will receive one half of the two pineapples, which is one pine-apple. If I divide 4 pineapples equally between two persons, each person will receive one half of 4 pine-apples, which is 2 pine-apples. One half of 6 pine-apples is 3 pine-apples, and one half of 8 pine-apples is 4 pine-apples. (sod Manual, page 115.) 1. Thomas bought 2 oranges, and gave one half of them to his sister. How many did he give her? 2. Mr. Abbott divided 4 peaches equally between his 2 children. What part of the 4 peaches did he give to each child? How many peaches did he give to each child? 3. Jane brought 6 plums from the garden, and divided them equally between her sister and herself. What part of the 6 plums had each of the...