3. If 8 tons of hay cost $96, what is the price of 1 ton? 4. The distance from A to B is 45 mi. The distance from A to C is one third as great. What is the distance from A to C? 7. Make problems about the things that can be bought at the school lunch counter. 8. Make problems from the articles mentioned in the grocery list. If you 5. Subtract 1,234 from 3,702; subtract 1,234 from the resulting remainder, and so on. subtract correctly, the last remainder will be zero. 6. Proceed in the same way with 4,567 and 13,701. 7. Proceed in the same way with 7,890 and 31,560. Written Problems 281. 1. One man spends $7 a month and anHow much do they both spend other $5 a month. in a month? In a year? 2. A man had $125 in the bank. To this amount he added his savings of $12 a month for 7 months. How much was his bank account at the end of the 7 months? How 3. A farmer sold 10 cows at $36 each. With this money he bought 8 pigs at $12 each. much money had he left? 4. A man rode for 5 hr at the rate of 12 mi. an hour. The following day he rode for 7 hr. at the same rate. How far did he ride in the 2 da. ? 5. I bought goods from a merchant as follows: March $186.75, April 65.70, May 240.25. On the first of June I paid the merchant $300 on account. How much do I still owe? 6. From the school garden plot, a boy sold the following: 12 heads of lettuce 24 bunches of radishes 10 qt. of peas 5 bunches of beets 10 per head 3 bunches for 5¢ 9¢ per quart How much did he realize from the sale? 7. A real estate agent received $450 for a year's rent, of which he spent $75 for repairs and $50 for taxes. How much remained? 8. A man leased a house for $240 for one year. How much was the rent per month? 9. A man's estate of $4500 was left to his widow and three sons. The widow received $1500 and the remainder was equally divided What was the share of each son? among the sons. Multiply and subtract. Write the remainder 1 be low the line and bring down the 3 from the dividend. |