3. Write decimally 86 eagles, 3 dollars, 2 cents, and 3 m. 4. Write decimally 70 eagles, 4 dollars, and 8 cents. 5. Add $16.54, $13.43, $81.415, and $9.607. 6. Add $3,814, $40.60, $31.875, and $118.436. 7. Add $8.14, $32.415, $4.675, and $31.843. 8. Add $0.17, $8.477, $30.303, and $8.888. 9. From $14.62 subtract $1.89. $13.43-$9.235 = ? 10. Find the difference between $25.873 and $19.984. 11. A man bought a box of raisins for $3.375, a box of candles for $4.62, and 75 lbs. of sugar for $9.465; what did he pay for the whole? 12. A person bought a hat for $4.75, a coat for $19.65, a pair of boots for $8.44, and an umbrella for $1.69; what did they all cost him? 13. A bookseller sold a dictionary for $8.25, 6 readers for $7.44, 5 arithmetics for $4.75, and 20 spellers for $4.75; what did he receive for them all? 14. A dealer bought cloth for $18.42, and sold it again for $27.105; what did he gain? 15. A boy had $4.75 at the beginning of the week, and earned during the week $5.92; if he spends $6.18, how much will he then have ? 16. A farmer sold a horse for $187.25, two cows for $84.90, and 40 bushels of oats for $22.46, for which he received a wagon worth $213.26, and the balance in cash; how much cash did he receive? = 17. Multiply $4.75 by 9. 18. $12.625 × 13 ? 19. $88.775 × 27 = ? 20. $84.35 × 12.2 = ? 21. 118.26 ÷ 9 = ? 22. $1,220.03 ÷ 14 = ? CANADA CURRENCY. 162. The currency of the Dominion of Canada is decimal; it is reckoned in dollars and cents. The coin of Canada is silver and bronze. FRENCH CURRENCY. The coin of France is gold, silver and bronze. The primary unit is 1 franc; its value is $0.193. ENGLISH MONEY. 163. This is the national currency of Great Britain. The primary unit is 1 pound sterling. TABLE. 4 farthings (far., or qr.) make 1 penny, d. The sign £ is usually written before the number to which it applies. The coin of Great Britain is gold, silver and copper. The pound is the unit of the money of account, and the coin representing it is called a sovereign. The value of the sovereign is $4.8665 U. S. 2 shillings make 1 florin, fl. 5 shillings make 1 crown, cr. EXAMPLES. 1. In £5 how many shillings? 2. How many pence in 18s.? 3. How many pounds in 40s.? How many in £8? How many in 60s. ? 4. How many dollars in 10 sov.? How many in 8 sov.? 5. How many sov. in 100s.? How many in 120s ? 6. In 6 francs how many centimes? 7. In 5 francs how many decimes? 8. In 250 centimes how many francs? 11. How many U. S. dollars in £4 ? 12. How many U. S. dollars in 60s. ? 13. How many U. S. dollars will it require to pay a draft from London amounting to 258 pounds sterling? 14. I wish to pay a merchant in Paris 1250 francs; how many U. S. dollars will it require? 15. How many U. S. dollars and cents in £3 5s. 6d. What is currency? What is money? What specie? What, a mint? Of what does paper money consist? What is the currency of the United States? Recite the table. How are expressions for U. S. currency usually written? When the number of cents is less than 10, what is written in place of tenths of cents? In what denominations are expressions of U. S. currency usually read? What is the currency of Canada? How reckoned? What is the coin of Canada? Of what does the coin of the U. S. consist? Name the denominations of the gold coin. Of the silver coin. Of nickel. Of bronze. What is the primary unit in the U. S. and Canada currency? Recite the table of French currency. What is the primary unit? What is its value in U. S. currency? Recite the table of English money. What is the primary unit? What is its value in U. S. currency? How is the pound sterling used? What coin takes its place in the currency of England? What is the value of the sovereign in U. S. currency? METRIC SYSTEM. 164. The Metric System is a system of weights and measures based on a primary unit of length called a Meter. The scale is decimal. The Meter is one ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole. It is nearly equal to 39.37 inches. MEAS UEE OF LENGTH. 165. The primary unit is the meter. TABLE. 10 millimeters (mm.) make 1 centimeter (cm.) NOTE.-If possible show the class a meter, and explain its subdivisions. If none is at hand, construct one from the Decimeter on the 158th page. EXERCISES AND EXAMPLES. 1. Measure your desk, and tell how many meters, or meters and decimeters long it is. How many wide? 2. Measure the door, both its height and width. 3. How many centimeters long is your arithmetic? How many wide? 4. How many milimeters wide is the Decimeter illustrated on this page? 5. How many decimeters in 12 meters? 6. How many centimeters in 20 millimeters? How many in 50 ? 7. Change 25 decameters to meters and decimals of a meter. 8. Change 225 hectometers to meters and decimals of a meter. TO WRITE NUMBERS IN THE Write the meters in the units place, decameters in tens place, hectometers in hundreds place, the kilometers in thousands place, myriameters in the ten thousands place, decimeters in the tenths place, centimeters in the hundredths place, and millimeters in the thousandths place. TO READ NUMBERS IN THE METRIC SYSTEM. We may read a number in the Metric system in terms of all its units, or in terms of any one of them. The expression 24.25 meters may be read 2 decameters, 4 meters, 2 decimeters, and 5 centimeters; but it is usually read 24 and twenty-five hundredths meters. |