1. There are 8 pints in one gallon. How many pints are there in 32 gallons?

2. A train runs 26 miles in 1 hour. How far can it run in 9 hours?

3. How much will 8 yards of lawn cost at 32 cents a yard?

4. There are 9 boys in a baseball team. How many teams can be formed with 36 boys?

5. At 9 cents a pound, how many pounds of sugar can be bought for 153 cents?

6. There are 168 cabbage plants in 8 rows. How many are there in each row?

7. How many bushels equal 396 pecks?
8. How many gallons equal 396 quarts?
9. How many weeks equal 287 days?

10. If 8 hours is a day's work, for how many days should a man be paid who has worked 304 hours?

11. 6 melons cost 78 cents. How much is that apiece?

12. How many yards equal 54 feet?

13. At 96 cents a gallon, what is the cost of a pint of molasses?

14. Seven o'clock A.M. is how many hours after midnight?

15. 144 square inches equal one square foot. How many square inches equal 8 square feet?

1. Robert had a plot in a school garden 10 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many square feet were there in his plot ?

2. He planted a row of tomatoes from which he raised 96 pounds. How much did he get for them at 9¢ a pound?

3. He planted two rows of beans which he thinned out to 3 plants to the foot. How many plants did he then have on the 20 feet?

4. How much did he get for 15 pounds of beans at 8¢ a pound?

5. He planted 35 turnips 7 to the foot. How many feet of turnips did he plant?

6. He raised 28 pounds of turnips which he sold at 3 a pound. How much did he get for them?

7. He also planted beets, carrots, and Swiss chard. He received 30¢ for his beets, 20 for his carrots, and 25¢ for his chard. How much did he get for these vegetables?

8. He raised and sold 10 heads of lettuce at 5¢ apiece and 8 bunches of radishes at 5 a bunch. How much did he get for them?

Find how long it takes you to get the right answers to each set of five examples.

IV

1. How many pints of milk are used in 30 days if 1 qt. and 1 pt. are used each day?

2. How many ounce packages can be made

from 9 lb. of cabbage seed?

3. 59826=?

4. 302-189 = ?

5. 9 x 309 = ? 7 × 694=?

CHAPTER V

READING AND WRITING NUMBERS

1. The ten-thousands are written 10,000; 20,000; 30,000; 40,000; 50,000; 60,000; 70,000; 80,000; 90,000.

For convenience in reading numbers of more than four figures, the figures are often separated by commas into groups of three figures each, beginning at the right. These groups are called periods.

The first period, counting from the right, is units, the second, thousands.

The following table shows the arrangement of these periods, and the three orders of figures in each period:

The number in the table is read 641 thousand 376.

2. Read: During the holidays the post office received for mailing 30,956 parcels, 229,875 postal cards, and 116,083 letters.