Examples. 105. What cost 540 yards of broad cloth, at 17s. 9d. ? Answ. 4791. 5s. 106. What cost 313C. of cheese at 14s. 6d. ? Answ. 2261, 18s. 6d. 107. At 11s. 11d. ', what cost 731 ells? Answ. 4351. 11s. Id. 108. At 3l. 17s. 5d. to? Cut. what come 517 C. of hops Answ. 20011. 4s. 5d. 109. What cost 108 C. at 5l. 13s. 8d. Answ, 6131. 16s. 110. At 4l. 9s. 103d. C. what cost 17 Cut.? Answ. 761. 8s. 23d. 111. What is the price of 129 ton of butter at 197. 19s. 44d.? Answ. 25751. 19s. 44d. 112. To how much come 48756 skains of worsted, at 11. 4s. 6d. 100? Ansiv. 5971. 5s. 24 d. Case I. When the quantity is a fraction; or of a lesser denomination, or denominations, and the price of 1 of a higher is given. Rule. Divide the given price of 1, by the denominator of the fraction, or aliquot part, when the less is, 1. An Aliquot Part. 1. What will of 1 C. come to, at the rate of 29s. 6d. C. 29s. 6d. The Reason is obvious from considering the solution by the Rule of Three, viz. 1 C:4. For I have multiplied 29s. 6d. by, and 1 divides not. 2. If a yard of cloth cost 8s. 6d. what cost yard? Answ. 4s, 3d. 3. What cost 16. of any thing, at 31. 13s. 6d C.? Answ. 10s. 6d. 4. At 5s. 6d. oz. what cost a pair of silver buttons weighing 5 penny-weight? Answ. 1s. 41d. 5. What will 14b. of sugar come to, at the rate of 45s. P Cwt.? Answ. 5s. 74d. 6. What will 7. be worth, if 1 Cwt. cost 36s. 4d.? Answ. 2s. 34d. 2; The Complement. Rule. Yuotract the quotient (found by dividing the price by the denominator of the part whereof it is the complement) from the price, and the remainder is the answer. 7. What 1 7. What will 3 of a Cwt. come to at 29s. 6d. Cwt. ? 9. What cost 3qrs. 14b. of sugar at 21. 5s. 6d. Cwt.? Answ. 11. 19s. 93d. 10. What cost 3qrs. 2015. at 37. 12s. 4d. Cwt.? Answ. 31. Ts. 2d. ounce, what cost a pair of buckles Answ. 4s. 1d. weighing 15 penny-weights? 11. At 5s. 6d. 12. At 17s. 6d. yard, what cost 3 qrs. 2 nails? Answ. 15s. 3 d. 3. Any Aliquot Part: Rule. Divide the aliquant part into several aliquot parts, and divide the given price by the denominators of these several aliquot parts successively: the sum of all the quotients will be the answer. Examples. 13. If 1 Cwt. of madder be worth 27. 10s. what is 3qrs, 16. worth? 14. What will 2qrs. 14. come to if 1Cwt..cost 50s.? Answ. 17. 11s. 3d. 15. If 1Cwt. cost 46s, 6d. what cost 1qr. 14. ? Answ. 178. 54d. 16. At 177. 10s. 8d. ton, what will 3C. 3qrs. cost? Answ. 31. 58. 9d. 17. How much will 12 ounces of silk cost, if 1fb. cost 37. 10s. Answ. 21. 12s. 6d. 18. What will 3 qrs. 21. of tallow come to, at the rate of 27s. 8d. Cwt. ?^ Answ. 11. 58. 114d. 19. What will 77 oz. of spice come to at 12s. 8d. P tb.? Answ. 68. 243d. 20. What cost 3 qrs, 2 nails of velvet at the rate of 178. 6d. P' yard? Answ. 158. 34d. 21. How much will 21. of sugar cost, if 1 Cwt, cost $48. 4d. ? Answ. 10s. 24d. 22. At 277. 10s. 6d Cwt, what cost 143. Case II. If of divers denominations the price of 1 of the lower is given. Reduce them to the said lower denomination of which the price is given, and find the amount thereof by the former Rules. 1 C. grs. 23. What cost 4 3 12 of pepper, at 18, 3d, t.? 24. At 9 d. b. what cost a hogshead of tobacco Answ. 561. 15s. 03d. weighing 12C. 1qr. 25,? 25. What cost 12b. 10 oz. of silver at 5s. Answ, 381. 10s. Od. ounce? 26. What will 224. 6 oz. of spice come to, at the rate of 3s. ounce ? Answ. 538 1. 10s. Od. 27. 12hhds. 36 gal. of brandy, at 4s. per gallon? Answ. 1581. 8s. Od. 28. If 1fb. of any thing cost is. 9d. what will 7C. 2qrs. 26. cost? Answ. 751. 15s. 6d. Case III. When the price of 1 of the highest is given. For the number of the highest find the amount by the Rules of Part I. and for the lower as in Case I. of this, and add the amounts together.. Examples. 29. What will 332C. 2qrs. 22. come to, at the rate of 18s. 6d, Cwt. 30. At 16s. 4d. Cwt. what cost 14 Cwt. 3 qrs.? Answ. 121. Os. 11d. 31. What will 193 Cwt. 3 qrs. cost, at the rate of 17s. 94d.? Answ. 1721. 7s. 15d. 32. At 16s. 54d. Cwt. what cost 203 Cwt. 3 qrs. ? Answ.,167 1. 9s. 1d. 33. If a dozen of candles cost 3s. 3d, what will a box of 52 dozen come to ? Answ. 17s. 10d. Q 3 34. What |