This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...reading dates, thousands and hundreds are read together as hundreds. Thus, "year 1620" is read, "year sixteen hundred twenty." (4) George Washington was inaugurated as our first President in the year 1789. 19. Write with figures: (1) Eight thousand five hundred seventy-four. (2) Seven thousand six hundred forty-six. (3 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...reading dates, thousands and hundreds are read together as hundreds. Thus, "year 1620" is read, "year sixteen hundred twenty." (4) George Washington was inaugurated as our first President in the year 1789. 19. Write with figures: (1) Eight thousand five hundred seventy-four. (2) Seven thousand six hundred forty-six. (3) Three thousand four hundred seven. (4) One thousand two hundred seventeen. (5) Six thousand seven hundred eight. (6) Two thousand fifty-nine. (7) Nine thousand eleven. (8) Five thousand two. 20. Write the following in a shorter way: (1) Sound travels one thousand ninety feet per second. (2) One mile contains one thousand seven hundred sixty yards. (3) One mile contains five thousand two hundred eighty feet. 21. 999 + 2 = how many figures? 22. Make the largest number you can with the figures 3, 7, 2, 9. 23. Make the largest number you can containing four figures. 24. If in paying a debt of $ 2373 you should use only thousand, hundred, ten, and one-dollar bills, how many of each kind would you use? 69. Roman Notation to One Hundred 1. In the Roman notation, what does X stand for? V? I? 2. The Romans also let L=50 and C = 100. Hence we have the following letters used in the Roman notation: 1=1 V = 5 X = 10 L = 50 C = 100 3. Write the numbers from 1 to 12 in Roman signs. 4. By an examination of the signs used in Ex. 3, we see that in the Roman notation Principles When a letter is repeated, its value is repeated. When a letter is placed after another letter of greater value, the sum of the letters is expressed. When a letter is placed before another letter of greater value, their difference is expressed. 6. Tell the value of XX. Of XXI. Of XXV. Of XXVI. Of XXIV. Of XXX. 7. Express the following numbers in the Roman nota...
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