9. What must I give for 427 reams of paper, at 12s. Dream? Answ. 256. 4s.

10. Sold 78C. of cheese, at 14s. Cwt. what come they to? Answ. 541. 12s.

11. At 16s.

yard, what cost 526 yards of broad

cloth? Answ. 4201. 16s.

12. What come 156C. of rice to, at 18s. ' Cwt.? Answ. 1401. 8s.

3. If the shillings be odd.

Find the amount of the even number less by 1 than the given price; and then take of the given quantity and add it to the said amount,

Examples.

13. At 3s. yard what cost 184 yards of linen?

14. What cost 924 barrels of barley, at 7s. barrel

Answ. 3231. 8s.

15. At 9s.

stone, what cost 347 stone of wool?

Answ. 1561. 3s.

16. At 116. ' stone, what cost 833 stone?

Answ 4581. 3s

17. What come 129 Cut. of iron to, at 13s. ' Cwt. ? Answ. 831. 17s.

4. Or otherwise, multiply the quantity by the said shillings, and the product is the answer in shillings, which reduce to pounds.

13. What

18. What is the price of 924 barrels of barley at 78. ?
Answ. 3231. Ss.

19. At 9s. ' stone, what cost 347 stone of wool?
Answ. 1561. 3s, &c.

III.

When the price is pounds and shillings.

Find the price for the pounds Case I, and for the shillings by Case II, and add the two prices together. 20. What cost 178C. of sugar, at 21. 4st p' C. ?

178

Otherwise thus:

If the shillings be odd, bring the pounds and shillings into shillings, and find the price Case 2, Part 2.

327

at 5 7

21. What cost 275b. of cochineal, at 17. 12s. H.?

Answ. 4401.

22. At 31. 8s. Cut, what cost 124Cut. of hops? Answ. 4211. 12s.

23. What cost 237 C, of sugar. at 21. 13s. C.? Answ. 6281. 1s.

Case 2. Of Aliquot Parts.

In order to manage Practice by aliquot parts more readily and easily, it will be necessary for the learner to commit to memory the following

Divide the quantity by the denominator of the fraction expressing the part (as in Division of Money,) and the quotient is the answer.

Application.

10s.

375

10s. is. So I divide 375 the. quantity, by 2 the denominator of

is £.187 10 as already taught in Division of Money, and find the quotient 1871. 10s.

25. At 6s. 8d.

yards of Holland?

Examples.

yard, what is the amount of 337 Answ. 1121. 6s. 8d.

26. What cost 1928 hats. at 5s. ? Answ. 4821.

27. At 4s.

pair, what cost 726 pair of shoes?

Answ. 1451, 4s.

28. What come 936. of coffee to, at 3s. 4d. H. ?

Answ. 1561.

29. At 2s. 6d.

. what cost 224. ?

Answ. 287.

30. What cost 1755 pair of stockings at 2s. pair? Answ. 1757. 10s.

31. At 1s, 8d. pyard, what cost 312 yards of dowlass? Answ, 2601. 11s. 8d.

32. Bought 1584. of loaf Sugar, at is, b. what Answ. 797. 4s.

'comes it to?

II. If the price be the aliquot part of a shilling, divide the quantity by the denominator of the part, the quotient is shillings which divide by 20 to bring it to pounds. At 6d. b. what cost 112. of sugar?

33. At 4d. quart, what must I give for 504 quarts?

Answ 81. Ss.

If the price be an even part of 2 shillings.

1. Find the amount of the quantity at 2 shillings, which amount divide by the denominator of the part, and the quotient is the Answer.

39 At 6d. yard what cost 560 yards?

Answ, 141.

Note. When the pence are an even part both of a pound and shilling. Table) as 6,l. s.; 4. s.; the price may be very expeditiously and conveniently discovered as follows;