2. How many mills are 2 cents? 3 cents? 4 cents? 5 cents? 8 cents? 12 cents? 3. How many cents are 2 dimes? 5 dimes? 6 dimes? 7 dimes? 11 dimes?. 4. How many dimes are 2 dollars? 5 dollars? 7 dollars? 10 dollars? 12 dollars? 5. How many eagles are 20 dollars? 30 dollars? 40 dollars? 60 dollars? 80 dollars? 100 dollars? 120 dollars? Q. How many cents are 4 pence? Q. How many cents are 18 pence, or of a dollar? Q. How many cents are 9 pence? A. 61. A. 25. Q. How many cents is of a dollar? A. 50. Q. How many cents is of a dollar? A. 75. A. 100. A. 20. A. 10. A. 8. How many cents is one dollar? Q. How many cents is a pistareen? Q. How many cents is half a pistareen? How many 4 pence-halfpennies in a dollar? A. 16. 6. You buy 4 yards of cloth for $1, and give the shopKeeper two fifty-cent bits; how much change must he give you? 7. You buy some calico to the amount of 17 cents, and give the clerk a pistareen; how much change must he give you? 8. You give a pistareen for 1 fish; how many cents must you give for 2? For 3? For 5? For 7? For 9? For 12? 9. What will 2 yards of ribbon come to in cents, at 43 pence a yard? At 9 pence? At 4 of a dollar? At a dollar? At of a dollar? Q. What is the coin of the United States called ? A. Federal Money. Q. When established? A. A. D. 1786. Q. By what authority? A. Congress. Q. Which is the money unit?, 4. Dollars. Q. What place do dollars occupy, then? A. The place of units. Q. How are dollars distinguished from dimes, cents, and mills? A. By a comma, or separatrix, at the right of dollars. Q. What are the figures on the left of dollars? A. Eagles. Q. What is the first figure on the right of dollars? Q. What is the second figure? A. Cents. Q. Name them. A. The eagle, the dollar, the dime, and the cent. Q. Which is a gold coin? A. The eagle. Q. Which are the silver coins? A. The dollar and the dime. Q. Which is a copper coin? A. The cent. Q. Which is imaginary? A. The mill, as there is no piece of money of that denomination.* Q. What are all the denominations of Federal Money? A. Mills, cents, dimes, dollars, and eagles. Q. How many of these denominations are used in accounts, and what are they? A. Three; dollars, cents and mills. Q. What are dollars and eagles called in accounts? A. Dollars. Q. What are dimes and cents called? A. Cents. Note.-The names of coins less than a dollar express their value. Mill is contracted from Mille, the Latin for thousand; Cent from Centum, the Latin for hundred; and Dime from Disme, the French for tenth. Q. What does this character, $, placed before numbers, denote ? A. Federal Money. 1 Q. As 10 mills make 1 cent, 10 cents 1 dime, &c., increasing from right to left like whole numbers, it follows that any question in Federal There are, however, half eagles and half dimes, real coins." Money may be performed as in whole numbers; also that dollars, cents and mills, may be called either all mills, or all cents and mills; thus, 4 dollars, 25 cents, and 5 mills, may be read, 4255 mills, or 425 cents and 5 mills; but, in order for this, it will sometimes be necessary to write ciphers between the different denominations; when, then, the cents are less than 10, where must a cipher be placed in writing cents with dollars? A. Between the cents and dollars. Q. Why is this? A. Because, as 100 cents make 1 dollar, cents of course, occupy two places; hence, when the cents are less than 10, they must occupy the units' place of cents, and a cipher the tens' place of cents. Q. In writing down mills with dollars, when there are no cents, how many ciphers must you place between them and dollars? A. Two. Q. Why? A. Because, as there are two places for cents, when there are no cents, these places must be filled with ciphers. Q. How are 2 dollars and 5 mills written down, then? Q. How are 3 dollars and 2 cents written down, then? A. $3,02. Q. How are 7 dollars and 8 mills written down? A. $7,008. Q. How are 9 dollars and 1 cent written down?, Q. How are 1 dollar, 1 cent, and 1 mill written down? Q. How are 20 dollars and 50 cents written down? REDUCTION OF FEDERAL MONEY. ¶ XXII. Q. What would you call the changing of numbers from one name, or denomination, to another, retaining the same value; as, 200 cents into 2 dollars? A. Reduction. RULE. Q. How many mills in 1 cent? In 8 cents! In 9 cents? A. Multiply by 10 mills, that is, annex one cipher. (See XII.) Q. How many cents in 20 mills? A. By 10 mills; that is, figure. In 60 mills? In 80 mills? by, to bring mills into cents? cut off the right-hand Q. How many cents in 1 dollar? In 2 dollars? In 8 dollars? Q. How many ciphers, then, do you annex to dollars, to bring them into cents? Q. How many dollars in 200 cents? In 800 cents? Q. How many figures, then, would you cut off, to bring cents into dollars? Q. As annexing two ciphers to dollars brings them into cents, and one to cents brings cents into mills, how many ciphers, then, would you annex to dollars in all, to bring them into mills? A. Three. Q. How many mills, then, in 2 dollars? In 8 dollars? Q. How many figures would you cut off, to bring mills back into dollars ? A. Three. Q. How many dollars in 2000 mills? In 5000 mills? ADDITION OF FEDERAL MONEY. ¶ XXIII. 1. What will 20 pencils come to, at 5 cents for 10, and 10 dimes for 10? 2. What is the sum of 50 cents and 5 dimes? 3. What is the sum of 6 cents, 12 cents, 20 cents, and 2 dimes? 4. If you give 25 cents for a top, 25 cents for a knife, and 1 dime for a slate, how much do they all come to? Q. What is this, which you have now been doing, called? 1. A man bought a wagon for $32,50, a harness for $15,20, and a whip for $1, 8c.; what did the whole cost? OPERATION. 32,50 15,20 1,08 Ans. $48,78 Q. How do you perform this operation? A. I place dollars under dollars, cents under cents, adding as in Simple Addition. Q. Why is there a cipher placed between the $1 and 8 cents? 10. A. Because the cents are less than 1 From the preceding remarks we derive the following RULE. Q. How do you write down cents, dollars, &c.? A. Cents under cents, dollars under dollars, &c A. As in Simple Addition. Q. Where is the separatrix to be placed? A. Directly under the separating points above. More Exercises for the Slate. 2. What is the amount of 3 dollars 2 cents, 2 dollars 5 cents, 7 dollars 8 cents, 9 dollars 1 cent, 1 dollar 1 cent 1 mill, and 20 dollars 50 cents? A. $42,671. 3. Bought a chaise for $126,18, a watch for $280,25, a coach for $850,62, a hat for $6,50, and a whip for $2,98; how much did all these articles come to? A. $1266,53. 4. Bought a cap for $7,50, a coat for $12,18, a pair of silk |