Find the balance due on the following accounts: 25. Mr. James Green bought of C. Jenkins 125 pounds of sugar, at $0.12; 17 barrels of flour, at $12.42; 48 pounds of lard, at $0.15; 482 pounds of meal, at $0.08. And sold to him 75 bushels of apples, at $0.85; 5 tons of hay, at $10.50; 50 bushels of potatoes, at $0.75; 50 cabbages, at $0.10. 26. Mr. Albert Wood bought of G. May 378 yards of muslin, at $0.12; 45 pairs of gloves, at $1.50; 127 yards of gingham, at $0.18; 5 parasols, at $3.25. And sold to him 3 reams of paper, at $2.75; 6 dictionaries, at $7.87; 7 writing-cases, at $4.38; 8 gold pens, at $2.50. 27. James White bought of J. G. Moore, 16 yards of cloth, at $3.75; 135 yards of sheeting, at $0.28; 25 yards of table linen, at $2.75; 13 dozen towels, at $4.35. And sold to him 17 lambs, at $6.25; 1 yearling, $15; 1 yoke of oxen, $150. 28. Mr. G. P. Brown bought of Haight & Halsey, 15 tons railroad iron, at $9.25; 782 pounds steel, at $0.35; 17 dozen bolts, at $1.16; 5 gross screws, at $1.67. And sold to them 5 thousand shingles, at $8.28; 189 pounds white paint, at $0.12; 125 gallons linseed oil, at $0.35; 40 gallons white varnish, at $1.25. 29. A drover bought 325 horses, at an average of $178 each; 143 cows, at $68 a head; 247 oxen, at $79 a head. What did he pay for the whole? 30. The state of Massachusetts has fourteen counties. If each county has twenty-five towns, each town two hundred and seventy-five houses, and each house nine inhabitants, what is the population of the State? 31. If John Brown starts for Washington, from a place 2796 miles distant, and travels 87 miles per day for 25 days, how far will he then be from Washington? 32. A butcher bought four thousand three hundred fortyfive pounds of beef, and sold three thousand one hundred twenty-four pounds; he then bought three times as many pounds as he had left. How many pounds did he buy in all? 33. Multiply the difference between sixty-five thousand two and forty-eight thousand nine hundred sixtythree by seven hundred sixty-eight. 34. Three boys sold chestnuts to a merchant: George, 20 quarts; John, 19 quarts; Henry as many quarts as George and John together. Five dollars were paid for the chestnuts. If the merchant retailed them at 12 cents per quart, what did he make? 35. A family uses for necessary purposes 24 gallons of water daily, and wastes 6 gallons. How many gallons will be required to supply the family for two years of 365 days each? 36. A western speculator has three tracts of land: the first contains 462 acres, the second twice that number of acres, and the third 25 times the sum of the first and second. How many acres in the third? 37. A farmer has 2678 sheep; he sells 347 to his neighbor, and 1792 to a drover; he then buys 12 times the number left. How many does he buy? 38. A passenger-train and a freight-train are running in the same direction, one at the rate of 15 miles per hour, the other at the rate of 36 miles per hour. How far apart will they be in one hour? How far apart in 16 hours? How far apart in 13 hours if they travel in opposite directions? CHAPTER V. DIVISION. 62. To divide $42 by 6 is to find the number of dollars Again, to divide that must be taken 6 times to make $42. $42 by $6 is to find the number of times that it is necessary to take $6 to make $42. In either case, the product and one factor are given and the other factor is required. Hence, 63. Division is an operation by which when the product and one factor are given the other factor is found. 64. The number to be divided is called the dividend, the number by which the dividend is to be divided is called the divisor, and the result is called the quotient. 65. Division is indicated by the sign of division, or by writing the dividend over the divisor with a line between them. Thus, each of the expressions 42÷6-7, and 42=7, means and is read "forty-two divided by six equals seven.' |