7. Reduce 41925 cents into dollars Change 45009 cents into dollars. 10. Bring 4625 mills into dollars. 2. TROY WEIGHT. 1. How many grains in a silver tankard, that weighs 1 lb. 11 oz. 15 pwt. lb. oz. pwt. 1 11 15 12 ounces in a pound. 23 ounces. 20 pennyweights in one ounce 475 pennyweights. 24 grains in one pennyweight. 1900 950 Proof. 24)11400 grains. Ans. 2,0)47,5 12)23 15 pwt. 1 lb. 11 oz. 15 pwt. 2. In 246 oz. how many pwts. and grains? Ans. 4920 pwt. 118080 grs. 3. Bring 46080 grs. into pounds. 4. In 97397 grains of gold, how many pounds? Ans. 16 lb. 10 oz. 18 pwt. 5 grs. 5. In 15 ingots of gold, each weighing 9 oz. 5 pwt. how many grains? Ans. 66600. 6. In 4 lb. 1 oz. 1 pwt. of silver, how many table-spoons, weighing 23 pwt. each, and tea-spoons, 4 pwt. 6 grs. each, can be made, and an equal number of each sort? 23pwt.+4pwt. 6grs.=654 grs, the divisor; and 4 lb. 1 oz. 1pwt. 23544 grs. the dividend. Therefore 23544÷654 36 Answer. 3. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. In 89 cwt. 3 qrs. 14 lb. 12 oz. how many ounces? 4 2. In 19 lb. 14 oz. 11 dr. how many drams? Ans. 5099. 3. In 1 tun, how many drams? Ans. 573440. 4. In 24 tuns, 17 cwt. 3 qrs. 17 lbs. 5 oz. how many ounces ? Ans. 892245. 5. Bring 5099 drams into pounds. Ans. 19 lb. 14oz. 11 dr. 6. Bring 573440 drams into tuns. 7. Bring 892245 ounces into tuns. Ans. 1. Ans. 24 tuns, 17 cwt. 3 qrs. 17 lb. 5 oz. 8. In 12 hhds. of sugar, each 11 cwt. 25 lb. how many pounds? Ans. 15084. 9. In 42 pigs of lead, each weighing 4 cwt. 3 qrs. how many fother, at 19 cwt. 2 qrs.? Ans. 10 fother, 4 cwt. 10. A gentleman has 20 hhds. of tobacco, each 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 14lb. and wishes to put it into boxes containing 70 Ib. each, I demand the number of boxes he must get? Ans. 284. 4. APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT. 1. In 9 83 13 29 19 grs. how many grains? 2. In 55799 grains, how many pounds? Ans. 55799. Ans. 983 13 29 19 gr. ་ 5. CLOTH MEASURE. 1. In 95 yards, how many quarters and nails? Ans. 380 qrs. 1520 na. 2. In 341 yards, 3 qrs. I na. how many nails? 3. In 3783 nails, how many yards? Ans. 5469. Ans. 236 yds. 1 qr. 3 na. 4. In 61 Ells English, how many quarters and nails? Ans. 305 qrs. 1220 na. 5. In 56 Ells Flemish, how many quarters and nails? Ans. 168 qrs. 672 na. 6. In 148 Ells English, how many Ells Flemish ? Åns. 246 E. F. 2 qrs. 7. fn 1920 nails, how many yards, Ells Flemish, and Ells English? Ans. 120 yds. 160 E. F. and 96 E. E. 8. How many coats can be made out of 363 yards of broadcloth, allowing 13 yards to a coat? 9. DRY MEasure. Ans. 21. 1. In 136 bushels, how many pecks, quarts and pints? Ans. 544 pks. 4352 qts. 8704 pts. 2. In 49 bush. 3 pks. 5 qts. how many quarts? Ans. 1597. 3. In 8704 pints, how many bushels? 4. In 1597 quarts, how many bushels? Ans. 136. Ans. 49 bush. 3 pks. 5 qts. 5. A man would ship 720 bushels of corn in barrels, which hold 3 bushels 3 pecks each, how many barrels must he get? Ans. 192. 7. WINE MEasure. 1. In 9 tuns of wine, how many hogsheads, gallons and Ans. 36 hhds. 2268 gals. 9072 qts. 2. In 24 hhds. 18 gals. 2 qts. how many pints? narts? 3. In 9072 quarts how many tuns? Ans. 12244. Ans. 9. 4. In 1905 pints of wine, how many hogsheads? Ans. 3 hhds. 49 gals. 1 pt. 5 In 1789 quarts of cider, how many barrels? Ans. 14 bls. 25 qts. 6. What number of bottles, containing a pint and a half each, can be filled with a barrel of cider? Ans. 168. 7. How many pints, quarts, and two quarts, each an equal number, may be filled from a pipe of wine? Ans. 144. 8. LONG MEASURE. 1. In 51 miles, how many furlongs and poles? Ans. 408 fur. 16320 poles. 2. In 49 yards, how many feet, inches, and barley-corns? Ans. 147 ft. 1764 inch. 5292 b. c. 3. How many inches from Boston to New-York, it being 248 miles? 4. In 4352 inches, how many yards? Ans. 15713280 inch. Ans. 120 yds. 2 ft. 8 in. 5. In 682 yards, how many rods? Ans. 682x2 11-124 rods. 6. In 15840 yards, how many miles and leagues? Ans. 9 m. 3 lea. 7. How many times will a carriage wheel, 16 feet and 9 inches in circumference, turn round in going from NewYork to Philadelphia; it being 96 miles? Ans. 30261 times, and 81 feet over. 8. How many barley-corns will reach round the globe, it being 360 degrees? Ans. 4755801600. 9. LAND OR SQUARE MEASURE. 1. In 241 acres, 3 roods, and 25 poles, how many square rods or perches? Ans. 38705 perches. 2. In 20692 square poles, how many acres } Ans. 129. a. 1r. 12po. 3. If a piece of land contain 24 acres, and an enclosure of 17 acres, 3 roods, and 20 rods, be taken out of it, how many perches are there in the remainder? Ans. 980 perches. 4. Three fields contain, the first 7 acres, the second 10 acres, the third 12 acres, 1 rood; how many shares can they be divided into, each share to contain 76 rods? Ans. 61 shares and 44 rods over. 10. SOLID MEASURE. 1. In 14 tons of hewn timber, how many solid inches?" Ans. 14 50 × 1728=1209600.. 2 In 19 tons of round timber, how many inches? Ans. 1313280. 3 In 21 cords of wood, how many solid feet? Ans. 21 128=2688. 4. In 12 cords of wood, how many solid feet and inches? Ans. 1536 ft. and 2654208 inch. 5. In 4608 solid feet of wood, how many cords? Ans. 36 cds. 11. TIME. 1. In 41 weeks, how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds? Ans. 287 d. 6888 h. 413280 min. and 24796800 sec. 2. In 214 d. 15 h. 31 m. 25 sec. how many seconds? Ans. 18545485 sec. 3. In 24796800 seconds, how many weeks? Ans. 41 wks. 4. In 184009 minutes, how many days? Ans. 127 d. 18 h. 49 min. 5. How many days from the birth of Christ, to Christmas, 1797, allowing the year to contain 365 days, 6 hours? Ans. 656354 d. 6 h. 6. Suppose your age to be 16 years and 20 days, how inany seconds old are you, allowing 365 days and 6 hours to the year? Ans. 506649600 sec. 7. From March 2d, to November 19th following, inclu sive, how many days? 12. CIRCULAR MOTION. Ans. 262. 1. In 7 signs, 15 24' 40'', how many degrees, minutes, and seconds? Ans. 225° 13524' and 811480". 2. Bring 1020300 seconds into signs, Ans. 9 signs, 13° 25'. Questions to exercise Reduction. 1. In 1259 groats, how many farthings, pence, shillings, and guineas, at 28s.? Ans. 20144grs. 5036d. 419s. 8d. and 14 guineas, 27s. 8d. |