26. 27.

of 20 is

of how many times

of 56?

of 60 is

of how many times

of 40?

28. If a family of 6 persons will consume 2 barrels of flour in 6 months, what must be the number of persons in a family that will consume the same in 4 months?

29. of Henry's money is as much as Richard has, and twice Richard's money is as much as Charles has; if Charles has $42, how much each have Henry and Richard?

30. I have an orchard, in which of the trees bear peaches, bear apples, of them bear pears, 4 bear cherries, and 10 bear plums; how many trees in the orchard, and how many of each kind?

31. James spent. of his money for a coat, Z for a vest, and for a railroad ticket; he loses $18, borrows as much as he had in the beginning, and has $8 left; how much had he at the beginning?

32. A man, on his way to market, was met by another man, who said: "Good-morrow, sir, with your hundred geese.' Said he, "I have not a hundred, but if I had as many more and 21 geese, I should have a hundred." How many had he?

33. The head of a certain fish is 6 inches long, the tail is as long as the head and of the body, and the body is 3 times as long as the head; what is the length of the fish?

34. A man has 2 horses and a saddle; the saddle, which is worth $24, when put upon one horse is worth 3 times as much as the horse, but when put upon the other horse, is worth as much as the horse; what is the worth of each horse? What is the worth of each horse, with the saddle?

LESSON XL.

1. How much is 1 per cent. of $100? Of $10 ? Of $1?

NOTE. Per cent. is a contraction of per centum, a Latin phrase, which means by the hundred. 1 per cent. means 1 of every hundred, or To; and 1 per cent. of $100 is $1, 1 per cent. of $10 or 100 dimes, is 10 cents or 1 dime, and 1 per cent. of $1 or 100 cents, is 1 cent.

2. How much is 1 per cent. of $2? Of $7? Of $13? Of $64?

Of $4?

3. How much is 1 per cent. of $200 ? Of $500? Of $800?

Of $300?

4. How much is 1 per cent. of $150? Of $450? Of $750?

Of $250 ?

5. How much is 1 per cent. of $15? Of $175? Of $480?

Of $150 ?

Of $10?

Of $50?

6. How much is 2 per cent. of $100?

Of $1?

7. How much is 2 per cent. of $30? Of $48? Of $64?

8. How much is 3 per cent. of $ 320? Of $ 460 ? Of $280?

9. How much is 5 per cent. of 320 bushels? 10. How much is 4 per cent. of 225 tons? 11. How much is 6 per cent. of 100 pounds? Of 150 pounds? Of 362 pounds?

12. How much is 7 per cent. of 344 yards? 13. How much is 20 per cent. of $282? Of $560?

14. How much is 15 per cent. of $1000? Of $2500?

15. How much is 9 per cent. of 320 barrels? 16. A man divides his property among his four sons; to the youngest he gives 15 per cent., to the next 20 per cent., to the second 30 per cent., and

the remainder to the eldest; how much does he give the eldest?

NOTE. The whole of any thing is of course 100 per cent. of itself.

17. If I give away 25 per cent. of my money to A, and 20 per cent..to B, and lend 55 per cent. to my brother, how much do I have left?

18. Bought a drove of cattle; in the first town I passed through, I sold 25 per cent. of them, and afterwards lost 8 per cent. of them; what per cent. of the drove had I then left?

19. If I draw 23 per cent. of my money out of the bank where it is placed, how much remains there?

20. If I borrow $70, and pay 6 per cent. a year for the use of it, how much do I pay in 6 years? 21. How much is 4 times 7 per cent. of $50? 22. How much is 8 times 6 per cent. of $80? 23. How much is 9 times 5 per cent. of $60 ? 24. How much is per cent. of $100? Of $10?

Of $1?

25. How much is

Of $1?

per cent. of $200? Of $20 ?

26. How much is 5 times 3 per cent. of 150 pounds?

27. How much is 6 times 5 per cent. of 225 yards?

28. What is the commission for selling goods to the amount of $ 500, at 21 per cent. commission? 29. A city broker exchanged $400 on a country bank, at per cent. ; what did he get for his trouble? 30. A man having $200 in uncurrent bank-bills, paid 11 per cent. to have them exchanged for current money; how much did he pay ?

31. How much is 4 times 6 per cent. of 200? 10 times 5 per cent. of 100?

LESSON XLI.

1. What part of any thing is 10 per cent.?

NOTE.

τόσ

4.

Since 1 per cent. is To, 10 per cent. is 10 times = 100 TO.

2. What part of any thing is 12 per cent.? 3. What part of any thing is 20 per cent. ? What part of any thing is 25 per cent.? 5. What fraction is 4 times 6 per cent.? 6. What fraction is 51⁄2 times 8 per cent.? 7. What part of a ton is 24 per cent. of 75 per cent.?

NOTE. of 75 per cent. 25 of 75 per cent. = 18 per

cent.

=

8. What part of a drove of sheep is 20 per cent. of 80 per cent. of it?

9. What part of a ship is 25 per cent. of 50 per cent. of it?

10. What per cent. of any thing is of it?

NOTE.- Since 100 per cent.: any thing of 100 per cent. =

the whole of any thing, of 25 per cent.

11. How many per cent. of any thing is of it? 12. How many per cent. of any thing is of it? 13. A man lost of his money; what per cent. did he lose?

14. If a man pays of his yearly income for board, what per cent. does he have left for other purposes?

15. How many per cent. of any thing is § of it? of it?of of it?

16. In a certain school, 20 per cent. are in the first class, of the remainder in the second class, and the rest in the third class, which has two equal

divisions; what fraction of the school is in each division?

17. What per cent. of 24 is 6?

=

of 24 of 24; and 4 of 100 per cent. =

18. What per cent. of 10 is 2? 19. What per cent. of 25 is 5? 20. What per cent. of 42 is 7? 21. 7 is what per cent. of 14? Of 70?

Of 50 is 5?

10? 8? 20? 14? 21? 36? Of 28? Of 49?

22. $25 is twice what per cent. of $ 150? 23. is what per cent. of 121?

NOTE. 12 as 1 is of 50.

24.

25.

26.

27.

25-50; and is the same per cent. of 50

Of 20?
Of 61?

is what per cent. of 4? Of 12? 1 is what per cent. of 21? Of 5g? of is what per cent. of † of 12? of 16 per cent. is what per cent. of 24

per cent.?

28. of 15 per cent. is what per cent. of 18 per cent. ?

29.2 of 16 per cent. is what per cent. of 24 per cent.?

30. If a miller takes out 4 quarts for every bushel he grinds, what per cent. toll does he take? 31. If of a hogshead of sugar is sold, and of the remainder is rendered unsalable, what per cent. is the remainder?

32. of is what per cent. of

33. Sold, from a box of sugar containing 150 pounds, at one time 20 pounds, and at another time 30 pounds; what per cent. of the whole was sold?

34. Of 120 yards of cloth there have been sold 108 yards; what per cent. of the whole remains unsold?