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  • There are still twelve scholars, and all but four have got through with their sand letters, and are at work at their 'a-b, ab,' and 'b-a, ba.'

    Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

  • I said my letters; and Miss Sewell, having found that I knew them pretty well, (thanks to Mammy's patient teaching), allowed me to spell in _a-b, ab_, and _b-a, ba_, and set me some straight marks on my slate.

    A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

  • At the old field school I saw the freshman class, barefooted and with pantaloons rolled up to the knees, stand in line under the ever uplifted rod, and I heard them sing the never-to-be-forgotten b-a ba's.

    Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

  • They sang them in the _olden_ times, and this is the way they sang: "b-a ba, b-e be, b-i bi-ba be bi, b-o bo, b-u bu-ba be bi bo bu."

    Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

  • When his boyish master was learning b-a ba, so was the boyish slave, and thus, by the time that the one knew how to spell in two syllables, the other knew also.

    Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History 1902

  • After obtaining the compression factor (Z) * and taking its partial derivative with respect to P and taking its limit as it approaches zero, i ended up with (b-a)/RT = 0 which obviously does not give a zero.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • I get that the average rate of change has an equation of: f (b) - f (a) all divided by (b-a) but how do I know what to plug in for b and a?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • I think the answer is 123. (b-a) and (c-b) can be both 1 with n as 123. yeah, it should be 123 with remainder being 67. i just went for the options. missed the largest number part Re: official quant thread for CAT 2009Re: official quant thread for CAT 2009

    unknown title 2009

  • To check that this is so, note that a-a = 0, which is a multiple of n (reflexivity); if a-b = dn, then b-a = (- d) n

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Home schooling Is it possible to make - 3y (a*b) out of +3 (b-a)?

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2008

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