1. How many stoves can be bought for $1120, if 3 stoves cost $105?

2. If 12 carriages are valued at $1728, how many can be bought at the same rate for $54,000 ?

3. A horse dealer bought 5 horses for $625. What would he pay for 485 horses, at the same rate?

4. How many barrels of sugar can be bought for $8352 when $108 are paid for three barrels?

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5. A merchant bought 297 barrels of flour for $1887, and sold it at a gain of $786. What was the sellingprice per barrel?

6. George Clifford paid $10,250 for oxen when 4 could be bought for $328. How many did he buy?

7. Mark Stone paid $430 for 332 fruit-trees; his brother, buying at the same time, spent $860. How many fruit-trees did the brother buy?

8. Eight shares of bank-stock are worth $784.

many shares can be bought for $22,050?

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9. A farmer bought 19 sheep for $114. He sold 9 of them for $32. For how much a head must he sell the rest in order to gain $38?

10. John Jones, with $1752, went to buy sheep; his expenses were $125; he bought 283 sheep at a uniform rate, and had $212 left. What did he pay for each? 11. A fruit grower received $1755 for 195 barrels of cranberries. What was the price per barrel?

12. In one square foot there are 144 square inches. How many square feet in 1,375,920 square inches?

13. A public library has a yearly circulation of 56,966 books. How many books are taken daily, if the library is open 313 days a year?

14. One mile contains 320 rods. How many miles in 348,160 rods?

15. Dividend 514,478, divisor 327, remainder 107. What is the quotient?

16. A railroad 478 miles in length cost $3,500,872. What was the average cost per mile?

17. How many house-lots, at $321 for each, can be bought for $772,326?

18. A company of 547 men took equal shares in a mine valued at $705,083. How much money did each man invest?

19. If 325 workmen are paid $583,700, what sum does each receive?

20. At $89 per acre, how many acres of land can be purchased for $713,513 ?

21. Divide one million three hundred seventy-five thousand eight hundred nine by two hundred eighty

seven.

22. A ship averaging 215 miles per day has to sail 3678 miles. How many days will be required for the trip?

23. A New Orleans merchant sends to New York 376,705 gallons of molasses. How many casks will there be if each cask contains 235 gallons?

24. The capital of a bank, amounting to $518,077, is divided among 679 stockholders. What is the

average amount held by each?

25. If 34,823 tons of coal are required for 97 steamships, what is the average number of tons for each?

26. A carpet-factory running 45 looms makes 17,820 yards of carpet in a fortnight. What number of yards is woven daily by one loom?

27. How much greater is the quotient of one hundred seventy-nine thousand three hundred sixty-four divided by six than the difference between forty thousand and twenty-eight thousand two hundred?

28. In one cubic foot there are 1728 cubic inches. How many cubic feet are there in a pile of wood containing 3,507,840 cubic inches?

29. Henry Sturgis has $250 at the beginning of a college term of 16 weeks. He spends $40 for books, $15 for fuel and lights, $25 for travelling expenses, and has $74 left at the end of the term. What did he pay per week for board?

30. A speculator paid $428 for 4 horses. At that rate how many horses can he buy for $317,897 ?

31. A man having an income of $3874 a year (52 weeks) spent $1826 for family expenses, gave $488 for char

itable purposes, and saved the rest. How much did he save per week?

32. A planter sends to market 428,197 pounds of cotton in three lots. In the first lot the bales weigh 232 pounds; in the second lot 425 pounds; in the third lot 256 pounds; the number of bales in each lot is the same. What is the whole number of bales?

33. How many pieces of carpet, at $75, $96, and $132 per piece, the quantity of each kind being the same, can be bought for $998,385 ?

34. A has 425 horses valued at $58,650; B has 382 acres of land worth $48,514. What is the difference in value between one of A's horses and an acre of B's land?

35. What is that number to which if 8 be added, and the sum divided by 3, the quotient will be 12?

NOTE. In all such questions the pupil is to work from the end of the example to the beginning, and reverse the operations.

36. If 17 be taken from a certain number and the remainder be divided by 10, the quotient will be 5. Required the number.

37. What number is that to which if 84 be added and the sum be divided by 72, the quotient will be 312?

38. By what number must 200 be multiplied that the product increased by 250 may be 30,250?

39. Dividend 13,642, remainder 2, quotient 110. Required the divisor.

40. Dividend 325,682, divisor 284, remainder 218. Required the quotient.

41. Divisor 235, quotient 423, remainder 34. Required the dividend.

NOTE. When dollars and cents are to be expressed, it must not be forgotten that two places on the right are to be used for cents, and that a point is to separate cents from dollars.

If four dollars and fifty cents are paid for nine pounds of tea, what is the price of one pound?

Here 9 is not contained in 4, so that O is written in the quotient under the 4; and the decimal point is written in the quotient directly under the decimal point in the dividend.

42. If 8 yards of calico can be bought for $2.00, what must be paid for 28 yards?

43. If 16 melons cost 96 cents, how many dollars and cents must be paid for 3585 melons?

44. A lady bought 19 yards of silk for $66.50, and 48 yards of carpet for $108. How much more was paid for a yard of silk than for a yard of carpet?

45. Martin Green paid $72.75 for 97 acres of land. What would be the cost of 437 acres, at the same rate?

46. Sixty-five yards of cloth cost $325. What will be lost per yard by selling the cloth at the rate of 10 yards for $45.00? and what the loss on the whole?

47. A grain merchant bought 684 bushels of grain for $752.40. At what rate must he sell it to gain 15 cents per bushel?