36. In 370 pence how many shillings? pounds?

37. In 846 pence how many pounds?

38. In 3,858 pence how many pounds?

How many

39. In 2,340 farthings how many pence? How many shillings? How many pounds?

40. In 87,253 farthings how many pounds?

4). In 87 pints how many quarts? How many gallons? 42. In 230 pints how many gallons?

43. In 98 gills how many pints? How many quarts ? 44. In 183 gills how many pints? How many quarts? How many gallons?

45. In 4,217 gills how many quarts? How many gallons? 46. In 23,864 gills how many gallons?

47. In 148 gallons how many hogsheads?

48. In 3,873 gallons how many pipes? How many tuns? 49. In 48,784 gills of wine how many hogsheads? How many pipes? How many tuns?

50. In 873 seconds how many minutes ?

51. In 87 hours how many days?

52. In 73 days how many weeks? How many months? 53. In 2,738 minutes how many hours? How many days? 54 In 24,796,800 seconds how many minutes? How many hours? How many days? How many weeks? How many nionths?

55. In 506,649,600 seconds how many years, allowing 365 days to the year?

56. In 273 drams how many pounds Avoirdupois? 57. In 5,079 drams how many ounces?

pounds?

58. In 573,440 drams how many ounces?

How many

How many

pounds? How many quarters ? How many hundred

weight? How many tons?

59. In 5,592,870 ounces how many tons?

60. In 384 grains Troy how many penny-weights?

61. In 325 dwt. how many ounces ?

62. In 431 oz. Troy how many pounds?

63. In 198,706 grains Troy how many penny-weights ?

How many ounces? How many pounds?

64 In 678,418 grains Troy how many pounds?

65. In 37 nails how many yards?

66. In 87 nails how many ells English?

67. In 243 nails how many yards?

68. In 372 quarters how many ells Fleinish? 69. In 3,107 nails how many ells Flemish ? 70. In 327 shillings how many English guineas? 71. In 68 pence how many six-pences ? 72. In 130 pence how many eight-pences? 73. In 342 pence how many four-pences? 74. In 2,086 pence how many nine-pences? 75. In 3,876 half-pence how many pence? 76. In 3,948 farthings how many pence? three-pences?

77. In 58,099 half-pence how many pounds?

How many

78. In 57,604 farthings how many guineas at 28s. each? 79. In 3£. how many pence? How many three-pences? 80. In 73€. how many shillings? In these shillings how many dollars?

81. In 84£. how many shillings? In these shillings how many guineas?

82. In 37£. 4s. how many shillings? How many dollars? 83. How many pence are there in a dollar?

84. In 382 pence how many dollars?

85. In 32£. 8. 4d. how many dollars?

86. In 13 yards how many quarters? In these quarters

how many ells Flemish ?

87. In 2 y. 3 qr. how many quarters ?

how many ells English?

In these quarters

88. In 17 ells Flemish how many quarters? In these quarters how many aunes?

89. In 73 aunes how many yards?

90. From Boston to Liverpool is about 3,000 miles; if a ship sail at the rate of 115 miles in a day, in how many days will she sail from Boston to Liverpool?

91. If an ingot of silver weigh 36 oz. 10 dwt. how many pence is it worth at 3d. per dwt.? How many pounds? 92. How many spoons, weighing 17 dwt. each, may de made of 3lb. 6 oz. 18 dwt. of silver?

93. A goldsmith sold a tankard for 10£. 8s. at the rate of 5s. 4d. per ounce. How much did it weigh?

94. How many coats may be made of 47 yds. 1 qr. of broadcloth, allowing 1 yd. 3 qrs. to a coat?

95. What number of bottles, containing 1 pt. 2 gls. each, may be filled with a barrel of cider ?

96. How many vessels, containing pints, quarts, and two

quarts, and of each an equal number, may be filled with a pipe of wine?

Note. Three vessels, the first containing a pint, the second a quart, and the third two quarts, are the same as one vessel containing 3 qts. 1 pt. The question is the same as if it had been asked, how many vessels, each containing 3 qts. 1 pt., might be filled.

97. A man hired some labourers, men and boys, and of each an equal number; to the men he gave 7s. and to the boys 3s. a day, each. How many shillings did it take to pay a man and a boy? It took 3£. 10s. to pay them for 1 day's work. How many were there of each sort ?

Note. The question is the same as if it were asked, how many men this money would pay at 10s. per day.

98. A man bought some sheep and some calves, and of each an equal number, for $165.00; for the sheep he gave $7.75 apiece, and for the calves $3.25. How many were there of each sort?

99. A man having $70.15, wished to purchase some rye, some wheat, and some corn, and an equal number of bushels of each kind. The rye was $0.95 per bus' el, the wheat $1.37, and the corn $0.73. How many bushels of each sort could he buy if he laid out all his money?

100. How many table spoons, weighing 23 dwt. each, and tea spoons, weighing 4 dwt. 6 gr. each, and of each an equal number, may be made from 4lb. 1 oz. 1 dwt. of silver?

101. A merchant has 20 hhds. of tobacco, each containing 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 14 lb. which he wishes to put into boxes containing 71b. each. How many boxes must he get?

102. Bought 140 hhds of salt, at $4.70 per hhd.; how much did it come to ? How many quintals of fish, at $2.00 per quintal, will it take to pay for it?

103. A man bought 18 cords of wood, at 8 dollars a cord, and paid for it with flour, at $6 a barrel. How many barrels did it take?

104. A man sold a hogshead of molasses at $0.40 per gal., and received his pay in corn at $0.84 per bushel. How many bushels did he receive ?

105. How much coffee. at $0.25 a pound, can I have for 100 lb. of tea, at $0.87 per lb. ?

106. How much broadcloth, at $6.66 per yard. must be given for 2 hhds. of molasses, at $0.37 per gal. ? 107. How many times is 8 contained in 6,848 ? 108. 12,873 is how many times 3 ? 109. 86,436 is how many times 9 ? 110. 1,740 is how many times 6 ? 111. 18,345 is how many times 5? 112. 64,848 is how many times 4 ? 113. 94,456 is how many times 8 ? 114. 80,055 is how many times 15? 115. 8,772 is how many times 12? 116. 1,924 is how many times 37 ? 117. 1,924 is how many times 52 ? 118. 3,102 is how many times 94 ? 119. 3,102 is how many times 33 ? 120. 4,978 is how many times 131 ? 121. 28,125 is how many times 375 ? 122. 15,341 is how many times 529 ? 123. 49,640 is how many times 136? 124. 6,81 3,978 is how many times 8,253 ? 125. 92,883,780 is how many times 9,876 ?

126. 2,001,049,063 is how many times 261,986 ? 127. 11,714,545,304 is how inany times $7,362 ? 129. 921,253,442,978,025 is how many times 918,273,645!

Miscellaneous Examples.

1. At 4s. 3d. per bushel, what cost 3 bushels of corn? 2. A: 2s. 3d. per yard, what cost 4 yards of cloth? 3. What cost 7 lb. of coffee, at 1s. 6d. per lb ? 4. What cost 3 gallons of wine, at 8s. 3d. per gal. ? 5. What cost 4 quintals of fish, at 13s. 3d. per quintal ? 6. What cost 5 cwt. of iron, at 1£. 9s. 4d. per cwt. ? 7. What cost 6 cwt. of sugar, at 3£. Ss. 4d. per cwt. ? 8. What cost 9 yds. of broadcloth, at 2£. 6s. 8d. per vard ?

9. How much sugar in 3 boxes, each box containing 14 (b. 7 oz. ?

10. At 3 £. 9s. per cwt. what cost 7 cwt. of wool?

11. What is the value of 5 cwt. of raisins, at 2£. 1s. 8d per cwt.?

12. How much wool in 3 packs, each pack weighing 2 qrs. 13 lb. ?

cwt. 2

13. What is the weight of 5 casks of raisins, each cask weighing 2 cwt. 3 qrs. 25 lb. ?

14. What is the weight of 12 pockets of hops, each pocket weighing I cwt. 2 qrs. 17 lb. ?

15. What is the weight of 16 pigs of lead, each pig weighing 3 cwt. 2 qrs. 17 lb. ?

Note. Divide the multiplier into factors as in Art. IV.. that is, find the weight of 4 pigs and then of 16.

16. At 7s. 4d. per bushel, what cost 18 bushels of wheat? 17. What cost 21 cwt. of iron, at I£. 6s. 8d. per cwt.? 18. What cost 28 lb. of tea, at 5s. 7d. per lb. ?

19. What cost 32 lb. of coffee, at Is. 8d. per lb. ? 20. What cost 23 lb. of tea, at 4s. 3d. per lb. ?

Note. Find the price of 21 lb. and then of 2 lb. and add them together, Art. IV.

21. What cost 26 yds. of cloth, at Es. 9d. per yd. ?

22. What cost 34 cwt. of rice, at 1f. Is. 8d. per cwt. ? 23. If an ounce of silver cost 6s. 9d., what is that per ib Troy? What would 2 lb. 7 oz. co t?

24. What is the value of 38 yds. of cloth, at 2£. 6s. 43. per yd. ?

25. A man bought a bushel of corn for 5s. 3d., and a bushel of wheat for 7s. 6d. ; what did the whole amount to? 26. How much silver in 6 table spoons, each weighing 5 oz. 10 dwts. !

27. A man bought two loads of hay, one weighing 18 cwt. 3 qrs., and the other 19 cwt. I qr.; how much in both ? 28. A man bought one load of hay for 7£. 3s., and another for 6£. 8s. 4d.; how much did he give for both?

The first con

29. A man bought 3 vessels of wine; the first contained 18 gallons; the second 15 gals. 3 qts.; and the third 17 gals. 2 qts. 1 pt. How much in the 3 vessels ? 30. A merchant bought 4 pieces of cloth. tained 18 yds. 3 qrs.; the second 23 yds. 1 qr. 3 nls.; the third 25 yds.; and the fourth 16 yds. 2 qrs. 2 nls. How many yards in the whole ?

31. A man bought 3 bu. 2 pks. of wheat at one time; 18 bu. 3 pks. at another time; 9 bu. 1 pk. 5 qts. at a third; and 16 bu. 0 pk. 7 qts. at a fourth. How many bushels did he buy in the whole ?

32. A man bought a cask of raisins for 1£. 18s. 4d. 1 lb. of coffee for 1s. 6d. ; 1 cwt. of cocoa for 3£. 17s.; I keg