1. What number must be added to 7428 to make 8047? 2. What number must be taken from 3015 to leave 2405? 3. If the minuend is 78,206, and the subtrahend 35,264, what is the remainder?

4. A man owed $4689. He paid at one time $3894. How much did he still owe?

5. A flour merchant had on hand 2038 barrels of flour. He sold 1299 barrels. How many barrels had

he left?

6. Mr. Brown's yearly income is $5067. His expenses are $4093. How much does he save?

7. The population of New England in 1870 was 3,487,924, in 1880, 4,010,529. Find the increase.

8. A house cost $9468. If payments to the amount of $5889 have been made to the builder, how much still remains due?

9. The sum of two numbers is 890,375, and one of them is

309,007. What is the other?

10. A is worth $98,760; B is worth $4586 less than A. How much is B worth?

11. In 1880 the population of Boston was 369,832, and the population of Baltimore was 332,313. How much greater was the population of Boston than that of Baltimore?

12. A tank holding 370 gallons of water was filled by pouring 77 gallons into it. How many gallons were there already in the tank?

13. What number increased by 15,639 will be 28,984?

14. What number subtracted from nine hundred eightyseven thousand three hundred fifty-nine will leave three hundred thousand two hundred eight?

15. A cotton planter raised 9675 pounds of cotton. He sold 7876 pounds. How many pounds had he left?

16. There were 322 apples on a tree, of which 198 were gathered, and 87 were blown off by the wind. How many were left on the tree?

17. There are 60 minutes in an hour; how many minutes between 4 minutes after 10 o'clock and 3 minutes

before 11 o'clock? Between 9 minutes after 1 o'clock and 3 minutes before 2 o'clock?

18. A man purchases a farm for $24,669, and pays down $13,708. How much remains unpaid?

19. Eight hundred seventy-six thousand four hundred twenty-five added to a certain number makes eleven million seven hundred nine thousand three hundred four. What is the number?

20. Two men, A and B, start together from the same place and travel in the same direction. A walks the first day 29 miles, B rides the first day 67 miles. How many miles apart are they at the end of the first day? How many miles would they have been apart if they had travelled in opposite directions? 21. A merchant deposited in a bank $10,040; and afterwards drew a check for $3780. How much had he in the bank after the check was paid?

22. What is the difference between 106,074 and 28,999? 23. A man went to market with $10.25. He paid for steak $2; for sugar, $1; for coffee, $1; for fruit,

$2; for flour, $2. How much money had he left? 24. A horse cost $397 and was sold for $563. How much was gained?

25. A horse and carriage were bought for $458, and were sold for $539. What was the gain?

26. A cow was sold for $171.25. The cow cost $152. What was the gain?

27. A man bought a house lot for $1290 and sold it for $1196. How much did he lose?

28. A horse, harness, and saddle were bought for $378, and were sold for $423.50. How much was gained? 29. A man owing $7862.50 has paid $5678. How much ⚫ is still due?

30. From a $50 bank-note a bill of $38.50 was paid. What change was given back?

31. In the siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783) the English fired 57,163 round shot, and the French, 175,741. How many more did the French fire than the English?

32. The length of the Missouri River from its source to the Mississippi is three thousand ninety-six miles, and from its source to the Gulf of Mexico four thousand five hundred six miles. How many miles is it from the junction of the two rivers to the Gulf of Mexico? 33. A lady bought articles in a store amounting to nine dollars and seventy-five cents. She gave in pay

ment a ten-dollar bill. How much change should she receive?

34. A gentleman received from his father $65,784. He paid for a house $28,598. How much had he left?

35. If the area of the Mississippi Valley is 1,237,111 square miles, and the area of the Atlantic slope is 967,576 square miles, find the excess of the Mississippi Valley over the Atlantic slope in square miles. 36. Lake Erie covers 9600 square miles, and Massachusetts contains 8040 square miles. How many more square miles in Lake Erie than in Massachusetts?

37. The foreign immigration into the United States was, in 1883, 603,322, and in 1885, 395,346. How much greater was the number in 1883 than in 1885? 38. The consumption of imported sugar in the United States was, in 1882, 866,517 tons, and in 1880, 730,519 tons. How many more tons were consumed in 1882 than in 1880?

39. A lady bought goods amounting to two dollars and thirty-four cents. She gave a five-dollar bill in payment. What change should she receive?

40. The polar diameter of the earth is 41,707,620 feet, and the equatorial diameter is 41,847,426 feet. Find the difference in feet.

41. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States estimated the revenue for 1885 to be $330,000,000. The actual revenue was $323,690,706.

How much did the actual fall short of the estimated revenue? 42. The population of Chicago in 1860 was 109,260, in 1880, 503,185. Find the increase.

43. The gross earnings of the Eastern Railroad for 1883 were $3,584,506, and the expenses were $2,310,830. Find the net earnings for the year.

44. The population of New York City in 1880 was 1,206,299, in 1860 it was 805,651. Find the increase for twenty years.

45. In 1880 Kentucky raised 149,017,855 pounds of tobacco, and Virginia raised 78,421,860 pounds. How many more pounds did Kentucky raise than Virginia? 46. The value of the tobacco raised in Kentucky in 1880 was $10,431,250, the value of that raised in Virginia was $6,273,749. Find the difference.

47. The population of Massachusetts in 1880 was 1,783,085, and of Virginia 1,512,565. Find the difference.

48. The population of New York in 1880 was 5,082,871, and of Ohio 3,198,062. Find the difference.

49. The population of the United States in 1880 was 50,155,783, in 1870, 38,558,371. Find the increase. 50. In 1885 the railroads of the United States earned from freight $519,690,992, and from passengers $200,883,911. How much more was earned from freight than from passengers?

51. The imports of raw cotton into England in 1871 were 1,778,139,776 pounds, the exports were 362,075,616 pounds. How many more pounds were imported than exported?