1. What will be the weight of 16 hams that average 10 lb. 5 oz. each ?

7 oz.

2. From a chest of tea containing 54 lb. there were sold 27 lb. How many lb. remain?

3. Seven bushels of potatoes are divided among 8 persons. How many pecks and quarts does each receive?

4. How many square inches in the surface of a sheet of measuring 11 inches by 13 inches?

5. How many feet and inches in yd.?

6. What decimal of a pound is 14 oz.?

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7. A man buys a bushel of hickory nuts. After he sells

2 pk. 4 qt., what fraction of the bushel has he left?

8. A dealer puts 30 gal. of milk in cans holding 1 qt. 1 pt. each. How many cans does he fill?

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9. At $20 per month, how much rent will a man pay in year and 5 months?

10. 75 hundredths of a pound is how many ounces?

11. How many feet in 5 rods?

12. 1 gal. 3 qt. 1 pt. of milk is divided among 5 people. How many quarts and pints does each receive?

13. What fraction of 2 lb. 3 oz. is 1 lb. 4 oz.?

14. Three-eighths of a ton is how many pounds?

15. Change 9 hours 36 minutes to the fraction of a day.

725. Slate Problems.

1. 32 hams weigh 458 pounds. What is the average weight?

14 lb. 5 oz.

32)458 lb.

138

10 lb. remainder.
16

160 oz., new dividend.

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Ans. 14 lb. 5 oz., average.

2. 595 gal. of oil are put into 14 barrels. How many gal. and qt. does each contain?

3. If there are 42 gal. and 2 qt. in a barrel of oil, how much oil will there be in 15 barrels?

4. In the written number 54,372, the value expressed by the 5 is how many times the value expressed by the 2?

5. A piece of cloth containing 57 yd. is divided equally among six persons. What is the length of each one's share?

6. How many minutes in 1 day, 1 hour, and 1 minute?

7. July 1 is the last school day. How many days' vacation will there be, if school begins Sept. 6?

8. How many hours and minutes are there from half-past 3 Saturday afternoon to a quarter before 9 Monday morning?

9. How many steps, 2 ft. 6 in. long, must a man take in walking 1,200 yards?

10. A man owns a plot of ground 420 ft. long, 240 ft. wide. How many rods of fence will be required to enclose it?

11. A train goes from Jersey City to Washington, 228 miles, in 4 hours 12 minutes. How many miles an hour does it travel? How long does it take the train to go one mile?

12. On Monday a boarding-house uses 3 gal. 2 qt. of milk; on Tuesday, 4 gal.; on Wednesday, 3 gal. 3 qt. 1 pt.; on Thursday, 4 gal. 2 qt.; on Friday, 6 gal.; on Saturday, 5 gal. 2 qt. 1 pt.; on Sunday, 3 gal. 1 pt. How much is used during the week, and what is the average per day?

13. June 21 the sun rises at New York at 4.23 A.M. and sets at 7.40 P.M. How long is the night?

14. From 37 bu. take 37 pk.

15. What is the length in rods of a fence surrounding a field 206 ft. 3 in. wide and twice as long?

REVIEW FRACTIONS.

726. Slate Exercises.

Add:

1. 298 +17+62,7

2. 13+35+13+61

3. 4330+63 +81 +3
4. 11+25+ 425 + 83 + 94
5. 835291+7018 +674 +37
6. 2+80+3+62 +9311
7. 11+213 +32 +43 + 541
8. 92+682 +33 +73 +39
9.75518+251 +30% +53 + 13
10. 60+49 + 18,7+63 + 901-

DENOMINATE NUMBERS.

732. Slate Exercises.

Change :

1. 48 pounds and 9 ounces to ounces.

2. 34 rods and 3 yards to yards.

3. 2 miles to yards.

4. 3 days and 17 hours to hours.

5. 24 minutes and 15 seconds to seconds.
6. 8 tons and 1675 pounds to pounds.

7. 43 gallons and 8 quarts to quarts.
8. 75 gallons to pints.

9. 19 bushels and 3 pecks to pecks.
10. 19 bushels and 3 pecks to quarts.
11. ton to pounds and ounces.
12. .03125 ton to pounds and ounces.
13. yard to feet and inches.

735. Slate Exercises.

Change:

1. 975 ounces to pounds and ounces.
2. 396 inches to yards.

3. 517 hours to days and hours.

4. 1,694 seconds to minutes and seconds.

5. 9,314 pounds to tons and pounds.
6. 987 pints to gallons, quarts, and pints.

7. 1,485 quarts to pecks and quarts.
8. 185 pecks to bushels and pecks.

9. 840 hours to weeks.