Lesson 20. 1. A bag of corn meal weighs 100 pounds. How many bags will weigh a ton? 2. If a brick weighs 4 pounds, how many tons will a load of 1000 bricks weigh? 3. A score is 20. How many years old is a man who is 3 score and 10 years old? 4. A gross is 12 dozen. How many pens in a gross of pens? 5. There are 24 quires in a ream. ream of paper ? sheets of paper in a quire and 20 How many sheets are there in a 6. How many square rods in a house-lot 8 rods front and 12 rods deep? 7. If a rectangular lot has 10 rods front, what must be its depth in order to contain an acre? 8. If a box must have 5 cubic feet of space in order to hold 4 bushels of oats, how many bushels will a box hold that has 40 cubic feet of space? 9. How many quarts in 10 gallons and 3 quarts? 10. From a firkin of butter containing 27 pounds 8 ounces, 7 pounds and 4 ounces are sold. How much is left in the firkin? 11. From a bushel of beans 4 quarts are sold. How many 4-quart measures can be filled from the beans that are left? 12. How many cubic feet in a box that measures inside 3 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet high? How many cubic yards? 13. How many cords of wood in a pile 16 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high? 1. Into how many equal parts is the apple divided? 2. What is the name of each part? 3. The name, one-half, tells that the whole apple is divided into how many equal parts? 4. How many halves of an apple make 1 apple? 5. If the square contains 10 sq. ft., how many square feet are there in one-half of it? 6. If a man walks 4 miles in an hour, how far will he walk in one-half of an hour? 7. How many cents are there in one-half of a dollar? 8. How many inches are there in one-half of a foot? one-half of 2 feet? one-half of 6 feet? 9. How many ounces are there in one-half of a pound? one-half of 4 pounds? 10. How many halves can be made from 1 cake? 3 cakes? 7 cakes? 11 cakes? 11. How do we express one-half with figures? Lesson 2. 1. What part of a quart is one pint? 2. How many quarts are there in 4 pints? 12 pints? 20 pints? 24 pints? 3. How many dollars are there in 2 half-dollars? 6 half-dollars? 10 half-dollars? 18 half-dollars? 4. If 18 pears are divided equally between two boys, what part of 18 pears will each boy receive? 5. If one-half of a pound of copper costs 6 cents, what is the cost of a pound? 6. Six is of what number? 7. James has 7 dollars and John has 12 halfdollars. How much more has James than John? 8. By what number must 8 be divided to get of 8? 9. What is of 14? 18? 26? 80? 100? 10. If a ten-quart pail is half full of water, how many quarts of water are in the pail? 11. If you have five apples of the same size, how can you divide them equally between two boys? 12. How many quarts are there in one-half of a bushel? How many quarts in of a half-bushel? 13. How many half-dollars make 2 dollars? 2 dollars? 3 dollars? 4 dollars? Solution: One dollar is equal to 2 half-dollars. Therefore 2 dollars are equal to 2 × 2 half-dollars, or 4 half-dollars; and 24 dollars are equal to 4 half-dollars and 1 half-dollar, or 5 halfdollars. 14. How many half-bushel measures will 2 bushels of wheat fill? will 5 bushels fill ? 15. If oats are put up in bags of 2 bushels in a bag, how many bushels will there be in 2 bags ? 1. Into how many equal parts is the circle divided? 2. What is the name of each part? 3. The name, one-fourth, or one-quarter, tells that the whole circle is divided into how many equal parts? How many fourths in the whole circle? 4. How many quarters are there in 1 dollar? 5. If a square contains 16 sq. ft., how many square feet are there in one-fourth of it? in two-fourths? 6. How many marbles are there in one-fourth of 8 marbles? 12 marbles? 20 marbles? 32 marbles? 36 marbles? 40 marbles? 7. How many gills are there in one-fourth of a pint? in one-fourth of a quart? one-fourth of 4 quarts? 8. How many ounces are there in one-quarter of a pound? in two-quarters of a pound? in three-quarters? in four-quarters? in one pound and a quarter ? 9. How many eggs are there in one-fourth of a dozen of eggs? in two-fourths? in one-half? in three-fourths? in one dozen and a quarter? 10. How do we express one-fourth, or one-quarter, with figures? two-fourths? three-fourths ? 11. How many more eggs in of a dozen than in of a dozen? How many fourths make one-half ? Lesson 4. 1. How many quarters of an apple are there in one-half of an apple? in two halves of an apple ? 2. How many halves of an apple are there in twofourths of an apple? in four-fourths? 3. What part of a bushel is 1 peck? 2 pecks ? 3 pecks? 4 pecks? 4. How many quarters of an apple can be made. from 1 apple? 3 apples? 5 apples? 12 apples? 5. If four men hire a carriage and the charge is $8, what part of $8 should each man pay to divide the expense equally? 6. If boards cost $20 a thousand feet, what is the cost of of a thousand feet? of of a thousand feet? 7. By what number do we divide 20 to find onefourth of 20? 8. What is 9. What is of 16? 24? 40? 48? 100? of $2? 10. $2 is of what? $1 is of what? 11. How many quarters of a dollar are there in $1? in $2? in $24? in $24? in $34? 12. How many bushels of oats will there be in 2 bags if each bag contains 24 bushels? How many bushels will there be in 4 bags ? 13. How many fourths are there in and together? 14. If from a pile of quarters of a dollar you take 3 quarters each time for 4 times, how many dollars will you have? 15. How many whole ones in 4 times ? in 4 times? in 4 times ? in 4 times ? |