Excerpt from Essentials of Business Arithmetic The book is adapted also for use in the upper grades of ele mentary schools where a business training in arithmetic is desired. The clear and full explanations, the practical problems, the short methods of solution, and the numerous exercises for drills and reviews render this book available for such courses in grammar schools. Many suggestions have been made for rapid calculation. The Speed and Written Tests of the larger volume have been retained with such changes in the problems as have been necessary to meet the requirements of the smaller text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.