120. At Christmas a lady paid $1.50 for cards, $2 for an album, and $0.75 for a book. How much did she pay for all these? 121. A farmer sold a heifer for $18, a pig for $12, and a sheep for $5. How much did he get for all? 122. A clerk made three sales of carpeting as follows: 20 yards, 25 yards, and 35 yards. How many yards did he sell in all? 123. What is the sum of $10, $15, $11, and $14? 124. How many are 15+ 10 + 5 + 7 + 3 + 2 +0+8+4? 30. WRITTEN EXERCISES. 125. What is the sum of three hundred three, five thousand six hundred forty-nine, eighteen thousand nine hundred six, and forty thousand eight hundred seventy-four? 126. A man paid $250 for a span of horses, $215 for a carriage, and $85 for two harnesses. How many dollars did he pay for all? 127. What is the sum of 147, eight hundred four, 6345, eighteen, and forty-five hundredths, 576, and 12, and 8 tenths? 128. A farmer sold 3 loads of hay, the first weighing 1657 pounds, the second 1749, the third 1583; how many pounds of hay in the three loads? 129. A merchant sold goods to the amount of $28.15 on Monday, $33.84 on Tuesday, $17.56 on Wednesday, $23.75 on Thursday, $19.17 on Friday, and $31.43 on Saturday. How much did his sales during the week amount to? 130. A father left by will to his eldest son 185 acres of land, to his second son 157, to his third 87, and to his youngest 73. How many acres did he will to the four? 131. A newsboy sold the first week in May 455 papers, the second week 528, the third week 479, and the fourth week 487. How many did he sell in these four weeks? 132. Mr. Appleton's bill for groceries for Monday was $3.25, for Tuesday $1.16, for Wednesday $0.75, for Thursday $2.15, for Friday $1.44, and for Saturday $2.33. What was his bill for the week? 133. Three men A, B, and C, bought a wood lot. A paid $217.65, B $325.50, and C $283.75. What did the wood lot cost them? 134. Mr. Berry bought at the store articles as follows: sugar $1.15, flour $2.25, spices $0.45, starch $0.17, salt-fish $0.24. He handed the clerk a $5 bill and received in change a 50-cent piece, two 10cent pieces, a 3-cent piece, and 1 cent. Was the change right? 135. I bought a lot of land for $1725, and paid for the building of a house on the lot $2375, for grading the grounds $25.75, and for fencing $52.25. What did the place cost me? 136. Rufus Holmes bought a suit of clothes for $21.50, an overcoat for $18.25, a pair of boots for $2.75, and a pair of gloves for $1.25. How many dollars will pay the bill? 137. George Munroe owes one man $344.25, another $146.18, and a third $57.13. How much does he owe to the three men? 138. A carpenter received for building 3 houses the following sums: $387, $765, $942. What did he receive in all? 139. Five loads of hay sold by a farmer weighed respectively 1681, 1947, 1399, 2015, 1861 pounds. How many pounds of hay did he sell? 140. Edward paid last term 90 cents for a Geog raphy, 55 cents for a Reader, 38 cents for a Grammar, and 28 cents for other articles. How much did they all cost? 141. By the census of 1890, the population of the following towns that constitute Dukes County was: Chilmark 353, Cottage City 1080, Edgartown 1156, Gay Head 139, Gosnold 135, Tisbury 1506. What was the population of Dukes County? 142. According to the census Plymouth had 273 operatives in boot and shoe factories, 143 in cotton and woollen mills, 45 in iron foundries, 133 rope and cordage makers, and 106 nail makers. How many persons were engaged in these different occupations? 143. Mr. Shumway's sales for six days were as follows: First day $39.62, second day $53.12, third day $47.96, fourth day $69.46, fifth day $41.83, sixth day $72.57. What was the sum of his sales? 144. By the census of 1890 Maine contains 33040 square miles, New Hampshire 9305 square miles, Vermont 9565 square miles, Massachusetts 8315 square miles, Connecticut 4950 square miles, Rhode Island 1250 square miles. What is the area of the New England States? 145. Mr. Clark's travelling expenses during the month of June were $25.57, July $32.40, August $53.50, September $113.65, October $50.81, November $72.83. What were his travelling expenses for the six months? 146. Mr. Kendrick's orchard yielded in 1889, five hundred eighty-four barrels of apples; in 1890, one hundred sixty-seven barrels; in 1891, nine hundred eleven barrels; in 1892, three hundred twenty-five barrels; in 1893, seven hundred forty-four barrels ; in 1894, two hundred ninety-six barrels. How many barrels did the orchard yield in the six years? 156. Arlington received from local school-funds in a certain year $321.24, Cambridge $783.00, Concord $76.50, Framingham $75.50, Hopkinton $340. What amount did these towns receive from this source? 157. A road commissioner paid for removing snow during the month of February the following sums: February 9, $126.45, February 13, $96.34, February 23, $163.87, February 24, $72.22, February 28, $212.35. How much did he pay during the month? 158. There were in a certain year 661 different pupils in the schools of Abington, 620 in Bridgewater, 199 in Carver, 337 in Duxbury, 314 in Hanover, and 225 in Kingston. How many pupils attended school in these towns? 159. Acton received from the state school fund in one year $179.13, Ashland $190.00, Dracut $176.53, Tewksbury $171.55, Wayland $186.50. What sum was paid these towns? For the several months of the years 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, Mr. Pearson spent the following sums in his purchases: How much did Mr. Pearson spend, In like manner, by various combinations of the sums given above, as many examples as may be needed for practice can be made. |