The North American Arithmetic

27. A lady having $3, paid $1.15 for a yard of cambric. How much money had she left?

28. A farmer sold a barrel of pork for $21.50, taking in payment a hogshead of salt at $5, and the rest in money. How much money did he receive?

29. A trader began business with $648, and at the end of 2 years, had $911.06. What did he gain?

30. A traveller having no money, sold his horse for $92.75, and his gig for $78, and then paid $17 for passage home. How much money did he bring home?

31. A jockey gave $120 for a horse, and then exchanged for another horse, receiving $15.30 for difference of value, and then exchanged again, paying $28.50. How much did the last horse cost him?

32. How much is 18 times $4.72 ?

4.72

37 76 47 2 $84.96

Now to change

$4.72 is the same as 472 cents: therefore we multiply it as 472 cents, and the product is 8496 cents. these cents to dollars, we by 100: this we do, by figures for a remainder.

must divide them pointing off two The quotient is

dollars, and the remainder is cents.

33. How much is 4 times $1.08?

34. How much is 7 times $52.31?

35. How many dollars are 8 times 75 cents? 36. How many dollars are 32 times 25 cents?

37. How much is 19 times 43 cents?

38. How much is 241 times $654.12?

39. What is the value of 6 pounds of Hyson tea, at $1.20 cents per pound?

40. What is the value of 10 yards of flannel, at 64 cents per yard?

41. What is the value of 6 hats, at $6.47 apiece? 42. What will a laborer receive for 25 days' work, at $1.15 per day?

43. How much must be paid for 30 pounds of coffee, when the price is 16 cents a pound?

44. How much must be paid for 12 drums of figs, when the price is $1.55 a drum?

45. What is the value of 147 bushels of apples, at 8 cents per bushel?

It is more convenient in this example, to make the number of bushels the multiplicand and the number of cents the multiplier. For method of reasoning, see remarks in section 5, under example 29.

46. If a man spend 23 cents a day, how much will he spend in 365 days, or 1 year?

47. What is the cost of 430 pounds of chocolate, at 20 cents per pound?

48. At 6 cents a pound, what is the value of a quarter of beef, weighing 214 pounds?

49. At $2.30, [230 cents] an acre, what is the value - of 4748 acres of wild land?

When the price of a single article is given in Federal money, and the value of any number of that article is required, either the price may be multiplied by the number of articles, or the number of articles by the price; the product will be the answer.

50. At $1.72 per pound, what is the value of 5 chests of tea, each chest containing 64 pounds?

51. A trader gave $5.16 a barrel for 2170 barrels of flour, and sold it so as to gain $100.50 on the whole. For how much did he sell it?

52. A man bought 30 yards of cloth at $1.32 per yard, and 30 yards at 86 cents per yard. How much more did the first piece cost, than the last?

53. If I pay 22 cents a gallon for 72 hogsheads of molasses, each hogshead containing 63 gallons, and then sell the whole for $936, how much do I lose?

54. A man having $350, took a journey of 700 miles, paying 6 cents a mile for stage passage, and $14 for board. How much money did he bring home?

55. If a man earn $1.02 a day, and spend 36 cents a day, how much will he lay up in 75 days?

56. If a man get $8.35 for every 6 days' work, how much will he get by working 510 days?

57. Suppose 42 casks to contain 46 gallons of wine each; what is the value of the whole, at $1.11 per gal. '

58. How many times 7 cents are there in $430.78 ? 7)430.78 We divide $430.78 as if the figures stood to express the whole in cents. 61 54 The quotient is the number of times 59. How many times 6 cents are there in $20.22? 60. How many times 15 cents are there in $11.10? 61. How many times 90 cents are there in $27.00 ? 62. How many times $4.06, [406 cents,] are there in $190 146.04, [19014604 cents]?

63. How many lead pencils can you buy for $3.44, when they are sold at 8 cents apiece?

64. How many pounds of butter, at 21 cents per pound, can be bought for $3.57 ?

65. A laborer earned $53.75, by working at $1.25 a day. How many days did he work?

66. If 84 cents should be divided equally among 6 boys, what would each boy receive?

67. If $28.71 [2871 cents] be divided equally among 9 men, what will each man receive?

68. If $205.58 be divided equally among 38 men, what will each man receive?

69. If $637 be divided equally among 24 men, what will each man receive?

71. 8 men received $230 for performing a piece of work. What was each one's share of the money?

72. An insurance office, whose stock was owned in 1000 shares, divided among the stock-holders, $1586. How much was paid on one share?

73. The expense of a village school, for 6 months, was $466.80; and it was paid in equal shares by 40 gentlemen. What was each one's share?

74. Add together $9.87, 50 cents, $705.30 and $390: subtract from this sum, 606 dollars and 7 cents: multiply the remainder by 45: divide the product by 37. What is the quotient, and the remainder?

75. A shoe-maker paid $1.58 apiece for 10 calf-skins, and 22 cents a pound for 3 sides of sole leather, each side weighing 35 pounds. From this stock he made 48 pairs of shoes, which he sold at $1.75 a pair. What did he get for his work?

76. Suppose a man, whose income is $400 a year, should spend $3.90 a week, how much would he save in 2 years; there being 52 weeks in 1 year?

77. Suppose wheat to be worth $1.05 per bushel, and bushels of rye 70 cents per bushel: how rye must be given for 550 bushels of wheat?

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Questions to be answered Orally.

(1) What is Federal money? (2) State the denominations of Federal money. (3) State the number of mills in a cent, the number of cents in a dime, &c. (4) How many cents make a dollar? (5) By what short method do you find the number of cents in any number of dollars? (6) How do you distinguish the number of dollars, that there are in any number of cents? (7) In writing dollars and cents together, how many figures express the cents? (8) When the cents to be written with dollars are less than 10, what is to be done? (9) Suppose you are dividing dollars, and a remainder occurs, what is to be done, in order to divide the remainder?

SECTION 7.

TABLES OF COMPOUND NUMBERS.

ENGLISH MONEY is the national currency of England.

4 farthings (qr.) . . . . make 1 penny.