Children's Arithmetic by Grades: Essential elements. Fourth book, fifth year

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Globe School Book Company, 1901 - Arithmetic - 144 pages

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Page 19 - Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, beginning at the right hand : the left-hand period will often contain less than three figures.
Page 63 - Divide the greater number by the less, and the divisor by the remainder, and so on, until there is no remainder ; the last divisor will be the greatest common divisor.
Page 48 - ... of the fraction. The numerator and the denominator are called the terms of the fraction.
Page 49 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 62 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor of 36 and 54, since it is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder.
Page 65 - A multiple of a number contains all the prime factors of that number ; and the common multiple of two or more numbers contains all the prime factors of each of the numbers.

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