9. What number added to the forty-third part of 4429 will make the sum 240? -Answ. 137. 10. What number deducted from the 26th part of 2262 will leave the 87th part of the same? Answ. 61. 11. A sheepfold was robbed three nights successively; the first night half the sheep were stolen, and half a sheep more; the second, half the remainder were lost, and half a sheep more; the last night they took half what were left, and half a sheep more; by which time they were reduced to 20: How many were there at first? Answ. 167. 12. What number multiplied by 72084 will produce Answ. 72. 51900482 13. There are two numbers; the greater of them is 73 times 109, and their difference 17 times 28. I demand their sum and product? Answ. 15438 and 59526317. Of Numbers of divers Denominations. UMBERS of divers denominations are those where of money, weights and measures. 1. Of MONEY. In England and Ireland accounts are kept in pounds, shillings and pence, which are compounded as follow: Farthings are expressed as parts of a penny, thus: expresses One farthing, One halfpenny, Three farthings. D 3 But But payments are made in the following coins. Current in Current in GOLD COINS weighing dut. gr. Eng. at £. S. d. Guinea dret.gr.£. s. d £. s. d. L. French Guinea 5 51 7 61 S. Car.. and Pennsyl and s. d £. s. d. 16 01 14 61 1 9 By Troy weight are weighed gold, silver, jewels and liquors The denominations are 24 Grain, 20 Penny-weights 12 Ounces make 1 Penny weight 1 Pound Abbreviations. 3. AVOIRDUPOISE WEIGHT. Is the weight generally used for weighing goods of all kinds, (the above excepted) and its divisions are as follow: NOTE. 16 Pound is a stone of wool in Ireland, Therefore 7 stone of wool is 1 Cwt, 573440 35840 2240 | 160 | 80| 20 | 1 4. APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT. By the follo ving divisions Apothecaries compound their medicines; medicine; but buy and sell by Avoirdupoise weight. 20 Grains make 1 Scruple, 3 Scruples 8 Drams 12 Ounces 1 Dram, 1 Ounce, 1 Pound. This is used to measure the distances of places one from another, and every thing where length only is considered; likewise to take the dimensions of the length, breadth and thickness of all bodies. Its divisions are as follow: Note. The last column to the left hand marked English, shews the inches of the English pole, chain, &c. and the next marked inches, shews the inches in the Irish. 7. SQUARE MEASURE. Is used in finding the contents of surfaces, when we measure both the length and breadth. 144 Square inches make 1 Square foot, I Square yard, 9 Square feet 49 Square yards 1 Square perch, I ENGLISH SQUARE MEASURE. 39 Square yards, 1 Square perch, Cunningham measure. Otherwise |