1. How many farthings in £484 12s. 6d. ? Ans. 465241 far 2. How many grains in 10 lbs. 5 oz. 16 dwts.? Ans. 60384 grs. 3. How many grains in 6lb 83 43 20 ? Ans. 33 T. 14 cwt. 2 qrs. 15 lbs. 5. How many bushels in 46748 pints? Ans. 730 bush. 1 pk. 6 qts. f. How many inches in 6 ells French? Ans. 324 in. Ans. 320 po. 8. How many tons of round timber in 416448 solid inches? Ans. 6 T. 1 ft. 9. How many gills in 2 tuns 2 hhds. of wine? Ans. 20160 gills. 10. How many pints in 12 bushels ? 11. How much will a cask of oil, containing 122 gallons, weigh, allowing 150 lbs. for the cask? 12. How many fathom in 7626 yds. ? 13. How many seconds in 2 days? Ans. 768 pints. Ans. 1065 lbs. Ans. 3813 fath. Ans. 172800 sec. 14. How many days in the three spring months? In the three summer months? In the three autumn months? In the three winter months? In all ? 15. How many hours in a year, (3651 d.)? Ans. 8766 h. 16. How many hours in a year and 12 days? 17. How many single things in 8 score? Ans. 9054 h. Ans. 160 single things. 18. How many reams in 5760 sheets of paper? Ans. 12 reams. 19. If a sheet of paper make 8 leaves, how much paper will it require to make a book of 240 pages? Ans. 15 sheets. 20. Find the decimal expression for £24 8s. 41d. Ans. £24.41875. 21. Find the decimal expression for £32 10s. 71d. Ans. £32.53125. 22. Find the denominate value of £.875; of £2.625. Ans. 17s. 6d. ; £2 12s. 6d. 23. Find the denominate value of £18.875; of £26.63125. 24. Make the £107; 223 yds. Ans. Ans. £18 17s. 6d.; £26 12s. 7d. of a £ into a decimal; £23; £61; £8§; £.125; £2.375; £6.444+; £8.625; £10.58}; 22.75 yds. 25. How much Federal money in £222 10s. 6d. N. Y. cur? Ans. $556.31. 26. How much Federal money in £300 13s. 83d. New Eng land cur.? Ans. $1002.28.8 + 27. How much Federal money in £248 12s. 8d. N. Jersey cur. ? Ans. $663.02. 2 + 28. How much Federal money in £100 10s. South Carolina cur. ? Ans. $430.71 + 29. How much New York cur. is equal to $462.37.5? Ans. £184 19s. 30. What is the value of $625.75 in New England cur.? Ans. £187 14s. 6d. 31. What is the value of $750 in Georgia cur.? Ans. £175. 32. What is the value of $5000 in Sterling money? Ans. £1125. 33. How much for a pipe of wine, at 14 cents a pint ? Ans. $141.12. 34. How much for 2 hhds. of molasses, each 106 gallons, at 8 cents per quart? Ans. $67.84. 35. How many sixpences in £6? in £12? in £14? in £24 10s.? Ans. 240; 480; 560; 980 sixpences. 36. How many halfpence in £4? in £8? in £16 10s. 6d. ? in £4 10s. 8d.? Ans. 1920; 3840; 7932; 2177 hfpence. 37. How many twelvepences, sixpences, fourpences, and twopences, and of each an equal number, in £28 10s.? (12+6+4+2 = 24 the divisor.) Ans. 285 of each. 38. How many twelvepences, sixpences, fourpences, and twopences, and of each an equal number, in £16 8s. ? in £48 14s.? in £64 18s.? Ans. 164; 487; 649 of each. 39. How many nails in 1 yd. 1 ell Fr. 1 ell E. and 1 ell Fl. ? Ans. 72 nails. 40. If it take of a yard of stuff for a vest-pattern, and each pattern be sold for 1 dollar; how much will a dealer get for 24 yards? Ans. $32. 41. When it takes 3 lbs. of flour to make a loaf of bread, how many loaves can be made from a barrel of flour? Ans. 56 loaves. 42. How many parcels of 14 lbs. each can be made up from 2 cwt. 2 qrs. 14 lbs. of sugar? Ans. 21 parcels. 43. How many yards, ells French, ells English, and ells Flemish, and of each an equal number, in 216 quarter yards? Ans. 12 of each. 44. How many ells French in 90 yds.? Flemish? Ans. 60 ells Fr.; 72 ells Eng.; ells English? ells 120 ells Fl. 45. How many dollars for 18 yds. of cloth at per nail? 2s. N. Y. cur Ans. $72. 46. How many cubic inches in 8 gallons wine meas.? in 12 gallons? in 26 gallons? Ans. 1848; 2772; 6006 cubic in. 47. How many cubic inches in 8 gallons beer meas.? in 12 gallons? in 26 gallons? Ans. 2256; 3384; 7332 cubic in. 48. How many cubic inches in 4 bushels? in 8 bushels? in 12 bushels? in 16 bushels ? Ans. 8600; 17200; 25800; 34400 cubic in. 49. Bought a horse for £42 10s.; a wagon for £16; and a cow for £8 8s. Conn. cur.: how much for the whole in Federal money ? Ans. $223. 50. If a man's wages be $1.25 per day, how much will he earn in a year, taking off Sundays? Ans. $391.25. 51. How long can I hire a man for £20 N. Y. cur. at $1.25 per day? Ans. 40 days. 52. If I have three tracts of land, as follows: 362 acres 2 roods 20 po., 464 acres 3 roods, and 484 acres 1 rood 16 po., and I wish to divide it into 12 equal lots, how much will there be in each lot? Ans. 109 A. 1 R. 93 po. required to make 123 suits of na. for each suit? 53. How much cloth will be clothes, allowing 5 yds. 2 qrs. 2 Ans. 691 yds. 3 qrs. 2 na. 54. A man worked 6 days from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., and 6 days from 7 A. M. to 6 P. M.; how many hours did he work in the 12 days? Ans. 120 hours. 55. A man bought a load of hay weighing 15 cwt. for $9; what did it cost him per cwt.? Ans. 60 cts. 56. What quantity added to 46 acres 2 roods 16 po. will make 100 acres? Ans. 53 A. 1 R. 24 po. 57. How much added to $44 36 cts. 4 m. will make $100? Ans. $55.63.6. 58. How much will a man earn in 1 week (6 d.) at $1 6 cts. per day? in 2 weeks? in 3 weeks? in 5 weeks? in 8 weeks? Ans. $6.36; $12.72; $19.08; $31.80; $50.88. 59. How much for 72 bushels of rye at 5s. 101d. per bush.? Ans. £21 3s. 60. How many bushels in 42 barrels, each containing 2 bush. 3 pks. 2 qts.? in 48 barrels? in 64 barrels ? Ans. 118 bush. 4 qts.; 135 bush.; 180 bush. 61. How many bushels in 84 barrels, each containing 2 bush. 3 pks. 2 qts.? in 121 barrels ? Ans. 236 bush. 1 pk.; 340 bush. 1 pk. 2 qts. 62. How many square feet in a floor 20 feet long and 12 feet wide? (20 × 12.) Ans. 240 sq. ft. 63. How many square feet in 8 boards 12 feet long and one foot wide? (12 × 1 × 8.) Ans. 96 sq. ft. 64. How many square yards in a floor 6 yds. long and 4 yds. wide ? Ans. 24 sq. yds. 65. How many square yards in a space 22 yards long and 18 yards wide? Ans. 405 sq. yds. 66. How many solid feet in a block of wood 6 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet thick? Ans. 54 solid ft. (6 × 3 × 3.) 67. How many solid feet in a block of marble 12 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 1 foot thick? Ans. 54 solid ft. 68. How many solid feet in a block of granite 20 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet thick? Ans. 150 solid ft. 69. How many cubic feet in a bin 6 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 3 feet deep? Ans. 84 cubic ft. 70. How many tons in 5 sticks of hewn timber, each 20 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 1 foot thick? Ans. 6 tons. 71. How much for 6 sticks of hewn timber, each 24 feet long 2 feet wide, 14 foot thick, at 12 cts. per foot? Ans. $43.20. New York, Jan. 12, 1849. Mr. John Eaton, Bought of Charles Mills, 12 lbs. of Hyson tea, at $1.06 per lb., ........... A TABLE OF FOREIGN COINS. Showing the Rates at which they passed in the City of New York in The Doubloon of Spain, April, 1848. GOLD. The Doubloon of South America, $15.60 to $16.50 $15.50 to $15.75 .10.00 7.66 9.00 7.66 8.50 4.87 6.00 5.72 6.75 7.80 4.80 4.83 5.00 SILVER. ..80c., 90c., 93c. to 1.00 1.12. 1.07 0.93 0.183 0.93 |