12. A man sold 18 bbl. sugar, each containing 306 lb.; 21 bbl., each containing 297 lb.; 5 bbl., each containing 291 lb. What is the average weight per barrel? 13. A, B, and C buy a farm. A pays $8,750, B pays $7,200, C pays $4,100. What per cent of the purchase money does each furnish? 14. If 11 weavers in 9 days weave 1,584 yards, what will 1 man do in 1 day? 6 men in 7 days? 15. The tax rate of a certain city is 13% upon the assessed value of property. If this value is 75% of the actual value, how much taxes does Mr. Smith pay upon a house and lot, the actual value of which is $24,000? 16. What per cent of a lb. avoirdupois is a troy pound? DISCOUNT OF INTEREST-BEARING NOTES. 919. Slate Problems. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1894. Sixty days after date I promise to pay to the order of Harman P. Payne, Forty-eight 50 Dollars, value received, with interest at 6%. $48,50%. 100 GEORGE P. POST. 1. Find the amount due on the above note at maturity. If the above note is discounted at a bank, the discount is taken on the amount due at maturity. Find the proceeds of the above note if discounted Dec. 1, 1894, at 6%. 2. Find the proceeds of a 90-days note for $175, bearing interest at 6%, discounted 33 days after date, at 6%. 3. Find the proceeds of a 60-days note for $350, bearing interest at 6%, discounted at 6%, 10 days after date. 4. Find the proceeds of a three-months note for $840, bearing interest at 7%, discounted at bank 47 days before maturity, at 8%. 5. A four-months note for $720, dated March 17, 1894, bearing interest at 6%, is discounted at 7%, May 10. What are the proceeds? A farthing is one-fourth of a penny, and is generally written as a fraction. 4. Reduce 4,000d. to £, s., d. 5. How many pence in £87 17s. 6d.? 6. What will be the cost of 150 yd. silk at 3/6 per yd.? 7. If £1= $4.8665, what will be the cost in U. S. money of 75 books at 18 pence each? 8. A merchant sells 37 coats at £3 5s. each, less 10%. What is the amount of his bill in English money? 9. Find 25% of £183 14s. 8d. 10. A silver dollar weighs 412 grains. How many ounces of pure silver are there in 1,000 silver dollars if the coin is pure silver? 11. The one-cent pieces weigh 48 grains. How many dollars. would weigh 120 pounds avoirdupois (7,000 grains to pound)? 12. A coal dealer buys 150 tons of coal, 2,240 pounds each, at $4.50 per ton. He sells it at $4.75 per ton, giving 2,000 lb. to the ton. What is his profit? 13. Three workmen receive $283.50 for doing a piece of work. One worked 32 days, the second worked 53 days, the third worked 41 days. What is the share of each? 14. Three men engage in a business venture. One furnishes $3,000, another furnishes $5,000, a third furnishes $4,000. They gain $1,800. What is each one's share of the profit? 15. A garrison of 1,200 men has rations for 40 days. Ten days later it receives a reinforcement of 300 men. How many more days will the rations last? 16. Two trains start at 9 o'clock from towns A and B, 120 miles apart. The train leaving A travels 20 miles per hour, the other 30 miles per hour. What time do they meet, and at what distance from A? 17. Divide $900 among four persons, so that the second will have three times as much as the first; the third, twice as much as the second; the fourth, as much as the three others. 18. Divide $540 among three persons, so that the first will have $48 more than the second, and the second $75 more than the third. 19. Four men working 7 hours a day need 15 days (105 hours) for a piece of work. How many days would it take 6 men, working 10 hours per day, to do the same work? 20. A grocer buys some eggs at 15¢ per dozen. He breaks 15, and then finds that by selling the rest at 16¢ per dozen, he will neither gain nor lose. How many eggs did he buy? 21. If a person lends me $250 for 8 months, for how long ought I to lend him $400 as an equivalent? 22. A fort had a garrison of 4,000 men, and provisions for 18 weeks. If 1,000 men were sent away, how long would the provisions last? COMMERCIAL DISCOUNT. 924. Slate Problems. 1. On a bill of goods amounting to $583.40, a discount of 5% is given for cash. What is the amount paid? 2. What will be the cost of 16 gross of Roman candles at $26.75 per gross, less 60%? 3. Sept. 1, 1894, I bought tea amounting to $1,876.50. If 5% is deducted for payment within ten days, how much would I have to pay if I paid the bill Sept. 9? 4. What will be the cost of 15 cases cocoa @ $13.20 each, less 20%? 5. Bought 5 gross of essence of lemon at 50¢ per doz., less 5%. What is the amount of my bill? 6. Find the cost of 15 cases of chloride of lime, 50 lb. per case, at 9 per lb., less 15%. تھے 7. What will be the net cost of a bill of plated ware amounting to $84.75, on which a discount of 333 and 10% is allowed? 8. Find the difference between $390 less 431% discount, and $390 less 331 and 10% discount. 9. Thurber, Whyland Co. sold the following goods. Make out the bill, less 50 and 10 and 10 and 10% discount. 500-pound bags at $1.00 per M. 10. Find the net cost of 18,500 bags at $4.40 per M. less 60 and 10 and 5%. 11. Which is the better discount for the buyer, 40 and 10% or 30 and 20%? What will be the difference on a bill of $100? 12. $100 less 33 and 10% discount is equal to what? What per cent discount is 33 and 10% equal to? To what per cent net is it equivalent? 926. Oral Problems. 1. A piano, marked $800, is sold at a discount of 25 and 10%. What is the selling price? 2. Bought goods amounting to $600, less 5% for cash. What is the net cost of the goods? 3. What single discount is 50 and 10% equal to? 4. What single discount is 30 and 30% equal to? 5. Paid $729 for goods, on which 10% was allowed. What was the "gross" price? 6. How much will I have to pay for 12 doz. bottles flavoring extract, at 60¢ per doz., less 10% ? 7. What is the "list" price of an article for which I paid $48, after a discount of 25% was deducted? MEASUREMENTS. 929. Slate Problems. 1. Mark in each division of each of the following rectangles. its area in square feet. Dimensions of each rectangle 100 ft. by 60 ft. |