SEWING AT HOME 1. If a sheet is 2 yd. long and 51⁄2 in. is allowed for hemming the ends, how many sheets can be cut from 54 yd. of the right width? How much material, if any, will be left over? 2. In buying sheeting, the width of the material is often given in quarters of a yard. If sheeting is § (5 quarters) wide, what is the width in yards and a fraction? in inches? The teacher may refer to the notes on page 87 if necessary. 3. How many sheets for single beds can be made from a piece of sheeting wide and 64 yd. long, each sheet being 2 yd. long, allowing 6 in. of cloth extra on each sheet for hemming? 4. If it takes 21 yd. of thread to stitch 1 yd. of cloth, how many spools of 50 yd. each will a woman have to buy if she wishes to stitch 75 yd. of cloth? 5. At 37 yd. to a skirt, how many yards of ruffling will be needed for four skirts? 6. Dish toweling can be bought for $10 per roll of 50 yd., or at the rate of 24¢ a yard. What per cent is saved in purchasing 50 yd. by the roll instead of by the yard? 7. Allowing 27 in. for each towel, how many dish towels can be made from a piece of toweling 39 yd. long? 8. A housekeeper wishes to make two curtains for each of four windows. The windows are 6 ft. 4 in. high, and the curtains are to be the same length. She wishes to put a hem 3 in. wide at the bottom of each curtain and another hem 11⁄2 in. wide at the top, allowing in. for finishing each hem. She can buy a 20-yard piece of curtain material for $10, losing what she does not need, or she can purchase exactly the amount she needs at 58¢ a yard. Which plan is the cheaper and how much cheaper? 1. On a farm when corn was selling at 60¢ a bushel it was decided to feed the corn to cattle. It was estimated that the increase in the value of the cattle, from the corn alone, was 80¢ for each bushel used for feed. What was the per cent of increase in the value of the corn by using it as feed? 2. On another farm corn was selling at 62¢ a bushel. Estimating that it was worth $1.24 when fed to cattle, find the per cent of increase in the value of the corn by using it as feed. 3. A record of the result of feeding corn to hogs was kept on several farms. On one farm, when corn was selling at 70¢ a bushel, it was found that the increase in the value of the hogs was equivalent to $1.57 per bushel of corn fed. What was the per cent of increase in the value of the corn by using it as feed? 4. On another farm the figures of Ex. 3 were 64¢ a bushel for corn when sold and $1.28 a bushel when used as feed. What was the per cent of increase in the value of the corn? 1. John saw that the workmen, in preparing a street for paving, took out dirt to the average depth of 12 in. The street is 36 ft. wide and mi. long. How many cubic yards of dirt are removed and how much does it cost at 65¢ per cubic yard? 2. John finds that they put in a foundation of 7 in. of crushed rock costing $1.80 per cubic yard. How much does this cost? 3. John finds that the foundation is to be covered either with wood blocks at $1.95 per square yard or with asphalt at $2.40 per square yard. What is the difference in cost for the street? 4. The curbing for the street costs $1.10 per running foot, and there is a curbing all along both sides, except where there are cross streets. John finds that 480 ft. is to be deducted on each side for intersecting streets. How much does the curbing cost? 5. John's father's lot fronts 66 ft. on the street. If his father has to pay half the cost of the paving to the middle of the street and half the cost of the curbing in front of his lot, how much must he pay if wood blocks are used for paving? PROBLEMS OF THE PAY ROLL 1. A mason in a certain city receives 90¢ an hour, and a plasterer 721¢ an hour. How much will eight masons and four plasterers receive for 8 hr. of work? 2. The following is last week's pay roll of a manufacturer: Fill out each space that is marked with an asterisk (*). Make out pay rolls (inserting names) when the numbers, the hours per day, and the wages per hour are as follows: 3. No. 1: 8, 8, 8, 8, 71, 4, 721¢; No. 2: 8, 8, 8, 7, 6, 4, 671⁄2¢; No. 3: 8, 7, 8, 8, 8, 4, 5814; No. 4: 8, 8, 8, 8, 71, 4, 763¢; No. 5: 8, 7, 8, 8, 61, 4, 82¢. 4. No. 1: 8, 7, 6, 8, 8, 4, 771¢; No. 2: 8, 7, 6, 73, 73, 4, 70; No. 3: 8, 6, 6, 8, 73, 4, 72¢; No. 4: 7, 8, 73, 6, 8, 4, 67¢; No. 5: 8, 6, 7, 71, 61, 4, 58¢. 5. No. 1: 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 4, 721¢; No. 2: 8, 8, 71, 71, 78, 38, 70; No. 3: 8, 8, 8, 74, 7, 33, 68¢; No. 4: 71, 71, 71, 8, 74, 32, 72¢; No. 5: 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 4, 731¢. 6. It is also customary for the manufacturer to have a change sheet showing the amount of change needed to pay each man. Fill out the following change sheet to provide for the pay roll in Ex. 2, using as large denominations as possible: CITIZENS' BANK BAY CITY, MICH. 7. Make out a change sheet for each pay roll in Exs. 3-5. 8. The cashier of the company having the pay roll mentioned in Exs. 2 and 6 will send to the bank a change memorandum showing the amounts of each denomination required. This memorandum will be of some such form as the one here shown. Copy this form. and fill in the rest of the blanks from the change sheet in Ex. 6. Check the result by comparing the total amount with the total of the pay roll in Ex. 2. 9. Make out a change memorandum for each pay roll in Exs. 3-5 from the change sheets made in Ex. 7. Check each one as in Ex. 8. K. P. Thorne & Co. require on Feb. 6, 1924 Number Pennies 10 Quarters $1 $2 $5 $10 Total Amount 10 |