1. Add: 721, 634, 384, 897, 974, 542, 134, 346, 875, 65, 303, 397.

2. A gentleman gave $125, for, a horse, $162 for a carriage, $84 for a harness, and $5 for a whip. What did all cost him?

3. A merchant sold 321 bbl. of flour on Monday, 143 bbl. on Tuesday, 235 bbl. on Wednesday, 197 bbl. on Thursday, 181 bbl. on Friday, and 202 bbl. on Saturday. How many barrels did he sell in all?

4. If he received $6 a barrel for the flour, how many dollars did he receive each day?

5. An ox was killed and divided into 4 parts, called quarters, weighing respectively 145 lb., 209 lb., 184 lb., and 186 lb. What did the ox weigh?

6. What is the ox worth at 5o a pound?

7. How many dollars will you give to 9 persons, if each person receives $38 less $9?

8. Tom has 25 marbles and Dick has 9 times as many as Tom, less 19 marbles. How many marbles has Tom? 9. How many tons of coal, worth $6 a ton, will it take to pay for 18 bbl. of flour at $7 a barrel?

10. A grocer bought 21 lb. of butter of one man, 20 lb. of another, 8 lb. of another, and 23 lb. of another. He packed it in boxes holding 9 lb. each. How many boxes did it take?

11. A boy having 56 oranges lost 14 of them, and divided the rest equally among 7 of his playmates. How many oranges did each playmate receive?

12. Multiply 7 by 8, add 10, divide by 11, add 21, divide by 9, multiply by 12, add 12, divide by 8, multiply by 11, divide by 6. Write the result.

ORAL.

1. 6 is of what number? 12 is what part of 24? 2. An orchard has 54 trees in 6 rows.

trees are in a row?

How many

3. I went to the store with 10 cents, and spent 5 cents. What part of my money did I spend? it did I spend?

What per cent of

4. I spent 12 cents out of 36 cents. What part of my money did I spend? What per cent of it did I spend? 5. If 6 chickens cost $1, what will 12 chickens cost? 24 chickens?

6.. A man having $24, paid $6 for a hat. What part of his money did he spend? What per cent of his money did he spend? How many dollars did he have left?

7. Find the cost of 9 lb. of cheese at 6 a pound.

8. Make an example to include 3 purchases at a grocery store, but the sum spent must be less than $1. Make change.

9. Make an example to illustrate change from a $5 bill and to include 3 purchases at a dry-goods store. 10. If a cow gives 6 qt. of milk a day, how many gallons does she give in 6 days?

11. How many minutes in of an hour?

12. How many hours in of a day?

13. What will of 49 yd. of cloth cost at $5 a yard? 14. How many inches are there in a line 7 ft. long? 15. $28 is $7 more than 3 tons of coal cost. does 1 ton cost?

What

16. A boy, being asked how many marbles he had, replied, "If I had 7 times as many, I should have 84." How many marbles had he?

17. At 12 an hour, how many hours will it take you to earn enough to buy a bat and ball if they cost 72 cents?

1. A grocer sold 7 lb. of butter to one man, 5 to another, and 4 to another. How many pounds did he sell

in all?

2. If I walk 34 miles one day, and 43 miles the next, how many miles do I walk in all?

3. In 10 there are how many fifths?

4. 45 is of what number?

5. What is % of 45?

6. 24 is % of what number?

7. What is of 24?

8. Make 2 examples to illustrate how to find the whole cost when the cost of one article and the number of articles are given.

9. Make 2 examples to illustrate how to find the number of articles that can be bought when the price of one article and the whole sum of money is given.

10. If 3 lb. of butter cost 75 cents, what will 5 lb. cost?

11. Add: and §, § and §, § and . 12. Subtract: and, and 4, o and 13. Find the cost of 175 lb. of rice at 7 14. A steamer sails 275 miles a day. she sail in 9 days?

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a pound. How far does

15. Find the cost of 8 carriages at $218 each.

16. How many inch cubes can you pile into a box 12 in. long, 8 in. wide, and 9 in. deep? How many blocks are there in the bottom layer?

17. In the last example, how many blocks can you put in one row? How many rows are there in the bottom layer? How many layers are there?

NOTE. Do not let the pupils get the idea that they must first find the square feet in the bottom, or that square feet can be multiplied by feet in height to find cubic feet. Hold fast to the idea of the number of cubic inches in one row and the number of rows in a layer and the number of layers.

1. How many little squares in Fig. 1?

2. How many little squares in the part not crossed off?
3. We call this 75% of the square. Can you
tell why?
4. What part of the whole square is 75% of it?
5. 75% is how many times 25% ?
6. Draw a line 12 in. long.

Cross off 75% of it. What

per cent have you not crossed off?

7. Copy and learn: 75% of an article is of it.
8. Find 75% of 16 apples. Find 75% of $20.
9. Find 75% of 36 oranges. Of 24 horses.

10. In Fig. 2 how many parts are not crossed off? What per cent, then, is not crossed off?

11. What part is crossed off? What part is not crossed off?

12. What part of anything, then, is 663 % of it?

13. How much larger is 663% of an apple than 33% of it?

Of 27. Of 36.

14. Find 663 % of 9. Of 27. 15. Draw 2 squares on the board each 12 in. Cross off 75% of one of them and 663 % of the other.

16. Draw 2 circles. Cross off from one of them 75% of it. Cross off from the other 663% of it.

17. Which is larger, 75% of 28 or 663% of 30? How much larger?

1. From a flock of seven hundred six hens there were sold at one time one hundred ten, and at another time three hundred sixty-five. How many hens remained?

2. Find out how many pupils are present to-day in each room on the first floor of your building. How many are present in all?

3. Find the same for the second floor.

4. A man had 400 hens, and sold 75% of them. How many did he sell?

5. A man had 300 bu. of corn, and sent 663% of it to the mill. How many bushels did he send to the mill?

6. If I should offer you your choice between 75% of 120 marbles and 663% of 120 marbles, which would you choose? Find out if you have chosen the larger number?

7. Write in a column the names of the months, and opposite each the number of days in the month. Add and see how many days there are in a year.

8. Walk round 1 square, counting your steps. If each step was 2 ft., how many feet is it round the square?

9. The distance from B to A is 263 miles, and from B to C is 197 miles. How far is it from A to C? A, B, and Care in the same straight line. Illustrate.

10. Add: Fifty-seven, two hundred sixty-nine, three hundred four, seventeen, four hundred eighty-one. 11. From $6.21 take $5.17.

12. Find the cost of 3 knives at $1.25 each.

13. Add $2 and 35 cents, $5 and 41 cents, $6 and 10 cents, $3 and 7 cents, $1 and 5 cents.

14. Add together of 20, of 18, 1 of 36, § of 60, and 6 x 4.

15. There are 932 gallons of water in a cistern. If 463 gallons should leak out, how many gallons would remain ?

16. Take 6 times 78 from 8 times 89.