Bill: paid by draft, and receipted by Clerk. JAMES CARLTON & CO. NEW ORLEANS, April 28, 1861. Bo't of WILLARD & HALE. 150 bbl. Canada Flour, @ $6.259 $7,50 7.16/969,00 998,75 329 75 Dr. 1850 Account Current, another form; balanced by note. WM. RICHMOND & Co. in a c. current with WooD & POWELL. July 2 To 896 pounds butter, By 61 barrels apples, $2.25 70 bushels turnips, .22 Cr. Aug. "872 66 cheese, .091 24" 4811" lard, .113 Dec. 1 Oct. 4" 50934 66 18" 81 dozen eggs, .6834 .162 "31" 15 barrels salt, Dec. 15" 41 hams, 963% pounds, .122 1.40 BOSTON, Jan. 1, 1861. WOOD & POWELL. PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES. 1. What cost 12§ cords of wood @ $4.874? Ans. $61.54+. 2. At $.37 per bushel, how many barrels of potatoes, each containing 2 bushels, can be purchased for $33.75? Ans. 36. 3. If 36 boxes of raisins, each containing 36 pounds, can be bought for $97.20, what is the price per pound? Ans. $.075. 4. If .625 of a barrel of flour be worth $5.35, what is a barrel worth? Ans. $8.56. 5. What is the difference between of a hundredth, and of a tenth? Ans. .025. 6. What is the product of 814,99 x 2615 correct to 2 decimal places? 200 7. A drover bought 5 head of cattle @ $75, and 12 head @ $68; at what price per head must he sell them to gain $118 on the whole? Ans. $77. 8. If 1 pound of tea be worth $.621, what is .8 of a pound worth? Ans. $.5. 9. A person having $27.96, was desirous of purchasing an equal number of pounds of tea, coffee, and sugar; $.87, the coffee @ $.181, and the sugar @ $.101. pounds of each could he buy? the tea @ How many 10. If a man travel 13543.47 miles in 365 days, how far does he travel in of a day? Ans. 32.445 miles. 11. Bought 100 barrels of flour @ $5.12, and 250 bushels of wheat @$1.061. Having sold 75 barrels of the flour @ $61, and all the wheat @ $13, at what price per barrel must the remainder of the flour be sold, to gain $221.87 on the whole investment? Ans. $6.75. 12. If 114.45 acres of land produce 4580.289 bushels of potatoes, how many acres will be required to produce 120.06 bushels? Ans. 3. 13. Divide .017217 by .03,, and obtain a quotient true to 4decimal places. Ans. .5625. Ans. 600. 14. Divide 13.5 by 24 hundredths. 15. A man agreed to build 59.5 rods of wall; having built 8.5 rods in 5 days, how many days will be required to finish the wall at the same rate? Ans. 30 days. 16. A farmer exchanged 28 bushels of oats worth $.37 per bushel, and 453 pounds of mill feed worth $.75 per hundred, for 12520 pounds of plaster; how much was the plaster worth per ton? Ans. $2.25. 17. A farmer sold to a merchant 3 loads of hay weighing respectively 1826, 1478, and 1921 pounds, at $8.80 per ton, and 281 pounds of pork at $5.25 per hundred. He received in exchange 31 yards of sheeting @ $.09, 6 yards of cloth @ $4.50, and the balance in money; how much money did he receive? 18. If 35 yards of cloth cost $122.50, what will be the cost of 29 yards? Ans. $101.50. 19. A speculator bought 1200 bushels of corn @ $.56. He sold 375 bushels @ $.60. At what price must he sell the remainder, to gain $168.675 on the whole? 20. If a load of plaster weighing 1680 pounds cost $2.856, how much will a ton of 2000 pounds cost? Ans. $3.40. 21. If .125 of an acre of land is worth $157, how much are 25.42 acres worth? 22. A farmer had 150 acres of land, which he could have sold at one time for $100 an acre, and thereby have gained $3900; but after keeping it for some time he was obliged to sell it at a loss of $2250. How much an acre did the land cost him, and how much an acre did he sell it for? 23. A lumber dealer bought 212500 feet of lumber at $14.375 per M, and retailed it out at $1.75 per C; how much was his whole gain? 6 24. If 10 acres of land can be bought for $545, how many acres can be bought for $17712.50? Ans. 325. 25. How much is the half of the fourth part of 7 times 224.56? Ans. 196.49. 26. Sold 10450 feet of timber for $169.8125, and gained thereby $39.183; how much did it cost per C? Ans. $1.25. 27. If $6.975 be paid for .93 of a hundred pounds of pork, how much will 1 hundred pounds cost? 28. Three hundred seventy-five thousandths of a lot of dry goods, valued at $4000, was destroyed by fire; how much would a firm lose who owned .12 of the entire lot! 13 29. Reduce 23 = Xof to a decimal. 21 Ans. $180. Ans. .15. 30. If 7.5 tons of hay are worth 375 bushels of potatoes, and 1 bushel of potatoes is worth $.331, how much is 1 ton of hay worth? Ans. $16.663. 31. A person invested a certain sum of money in trade; at the end of 5 years he had gained a sum equal to 84 hundredths of it,, and in 5 years more he had doubled this entire amount. How many times the sum first invested had he at the end of the 10 years? Ans. 3.68 times. 32. A miller paid $54 for grain, of it being barley at $.623 per bushel, and g of it wheat at $1.873 per bushel; the balance of the money, he expended for oats at $.37 per bushel. How many bushels of grain did he purchase? Ans. 40. 33. A merchant tailor bought 27 pieces of broadcloth, each piece containing 193 yards, at $4.314 a yard; and sold it so as to gain $381.87, after deducting $9.623 for freight. How much was the cloth sold for per yard? Ans. $5.06. 34. Bought 1356 bushels of wheat @ $1.18%, and 736 bushels of oats @ $.41; I had 870 bushels of the wheat floured, and disposed of it at a profit of $235.871, and I sold 528 bushels of the oats at a loss of $13.621. I afterward sold the remainder of the wheat at $1.12 per bushel, and the remainder of the oats at $.31 per bushel; did I gain or lose, and how much? Ans. I gained $171.07. 35. The sum of two fractions is 1, and their difference is 404; what are the fractions? 116 L 36. A manufacturer carried on business for 3 years. The first year he gained a sum equal to 4 of his original capital; the second year he lost of what he had at the end of the first year; the third year he gained g of what he had at the end of the second year, and he then had $28585.70. How much had he gained in the 3 years? Ans. $10594.70 |