22. I sold a horse for $60 and thereby lost of the cost price. What should I have sold it for to gain of the cost?

23. A boy bought 3 doz. eggs for his mother at 12 a doz., and with the remainder, which was of the money she gave him, he bought oranges at 4¢ each. How many oranges did he buy?

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24. Three farms join each other. The first contains as much as the second, and the second much as the third. The third farm contains 120 A. How large is the first farm?

25. I traded a

interest in a grocery store for a interest in a general store. If the grocery store was valued at $9000, what was the value of the general store?

DECIMALS

Lesson 33

1. In the expression $6.37 the 6 is 6 what? The 3 is 3 what? What part of a dollar? The 7 is 7 what? What part of a dollar? The 37 is 37 what? What part of a dollar?

2. In the expression $2.19 what part of a dollar is the 1? The 9? The 19?

3. Read as dollars and as hundredths of a dollar: $4.29, $6.37, $2.15, $8.05, $8.99, $.76, $.26, $.06, $.09.

4. Read the following expressions :

3.45 T., 2.96 mi., 7.15 A., 6.43 yr., .37 da., .89 hr., .07 hr., .08 gal., 3.06 gal., 5.01 bu., 3.18, .64, 3.50, .04, .02.

Give the place value of each figure in the above example.

5. Read the following expressions :

3.146 lb., 4.293 T., 8.141 A., 5.16 A., 8.028 T., 3.006 da., .456 da., .75 hr., .005 bu., .003 gal., 4.568 mi., 3.333, 4.593, .063, .008, .06, .006.

Give the place value of each figure in the above example.

6. Read the following expressions:

.292, 6.04, .6, .64, .645, .6457, .64572, .6, .06, .006, .0006, .0054, 94.3006, .0016, 7.24732, 3.0306, 12.47025, .42819, .00328, .8216, 3.1416, 2150.42, 39.371.

7. Reduce to common fractions in their lowest terms: .5, .6, .20, .25, .75, .80, .125, .375, .625, .875.

8. A farmer sold .8 of his flock of 325 sheep. How many did he sell? Give the statements of balance for this and the following examples.

9. A farmer gave .375 of his farm of 200 A. to his son. How many acres did he keep?

10. A merchant sold cloth at an advance of .125 of the cost and gained 21 ¢ a yd. What did a customer pay for 10 yd.?

11. Reduce to common fractions in their lowest terms: .331, .663, .163, .142, .121, .371, .621, .871, .111, .223, .44, .555, .777, .888, .6, .61, .08. Commit these results to memory.

12. A man withdrew .444 of the money he had in a bank to invest it in business. There still remained in the bank $8500. How much did he withdraw?

13. A merchant sent .063 of a piece of cloth, which originally contained 45 yd. and sold at 50¢ a yd., to the remnant counter, reducing the price .5. What was the piece marked to sell at?

14. A merchant bought goods from a wholesale received a bill for $480 less .33

house for which he and .061 for cash.

Find the cash amount of the bill.

15. .663 of a piece of ribbon was sold to one customer and .16 of it to another. The remainder sold for 36 at 12 a yard. Find the number of yards in the piece at first.

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16. Reduce to hundredths: 1, 4, 4, 1, 3, 7, 8, †, }, 8, 1, 1, 8, §, §, 1, 3, 4, 5, 3, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16. Commit these results to memory.

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17. What part of 1 yd. is 1 ft.? How many hundredths? What part of 1 ft. is 1 in.? How many hundredths?

18. Express your answers to the following questions in tenths or hundredths. What part of 1 gal. is 1 qt.? Of 1 bu. is 2 pk.? Of 1 pk. is 1 qt.? Of 1 lb. avoir. is 1 oz.? Of 1 lb. troy is 1 oz.? Of .25 of 1 yr. is 1 mo.? Of 1 da. is 4 hr.?

Of .16% of 1 quire is .33 of a dozen sheets of paper? Of 1 rd. is 1 yd.? Of 1 sq. yd. is 1 sq. ft.? Of the side of a square containing 25 sq. in. is the side of a square containing 16 sq. in.?

19. Carpet bought at 56 a yd. is sold for 70¢ a yd. What is the gain as a fraction of the cost? How many hundredths?

20. A grocer bought tea at 60 a lb., and sold it for 724 a lb. How many hundredths of the cost did he gain?

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21. Bought pencils at 30% a dozen and sold them at 4 each. What is the gain on each dollar invested? 22. A laboring man earns $270 in 240 da. at $1.50 a day. How many days does he work out of every

100 da.?

23. A person invested .331 of his money in real estate and .444 of it in business. He had $1200 left. What was the amount of each investment?

24. A grocer sold .16 of his stock of eggs for 24¢ a doz., .5 of it for 22 a doz., and the remainder 18¢ a doz. Find the average price per doz.

25. The stock in a drygoods store was damaged .33 of its value by fire. If the stock was worth $9000, what was the loss of one of the partners who had a interest in the business?