CONTENTS. Compound Rules (Money). Miscellaneous, Compound Rules (Weights and Measures). Miscellaneous, Simple,. Compound, Bills of Parcels, Proportion Simple,. Compound, Greatest Common Measure, . Vulgar Fractions Reduction to Lowest Terms, Convert into Fractions with Given Denominators, 29 Reduction of Fractions to the Same Denominator, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Find the Value of (Money), Find the Value of (Weights and Measures), Reduction to the Fraction of (Money), Reduction to the Fraction of (Weights and Measures), Simplification, . Miscellaneous, Decimal Fractions Reduction of Decimal to Vulgar Fractions, and vice versa, Addition, Simplification, . Find the Value of (Money), Find the Value of (Weights and Measures), Reduction to the Decimal of (Money), . Reduction to the Decimal of (Weights and Measures), N.B.-The Arithmetic for candidates is the same for males and females, and will be found in the Pupil Teachers' Questions for Males. This accounts for there being so few examples, in the present volume, in those rules which precede Practice and Bills of Parcels. FEMALE PUPIL TEACHERS' GOVERNMENT EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. COMPOUND RULES (Money). 1. If I buy 2048 yds. of linen at 3s. 24d. per yard, and sell the whole for £359, 6s. 8d., what is the gain? 2. How much may I spend daily out of an income of £862 per annum, so as to put by 200 guineas yearly? COMPOUND RULES (Weights and Measures). 1. A truck which weighs one ton is loaded with 9 bales of equal weight; the truck and its contents weigh together 3 tons 8 cwts. 2 qrs. 13 lbs.: find the weight of each bale. 2. How many acres will supply 53 horses with hay and oats for a year, if each horse consume annually the produce of 5 ac. 3 rds. 26 poles? PRACTICE (Simple). Find the cost of : 1. Find by Practice the value of 2416 at 34d. each. 2. 3467 at 3 d. 3. 746 articles at 5d. each. 4. 2937 at road. 5. 25 articles at £2, 16s. 8d. each. 6. 385 yds. at 10ld. per yard. 7. 71 articles at £4, 8s. 111d. each. 8. 235 articles at £8, 4s. 10d. each. 9. 385 yds. at 11s. 101d. per yard. 10. 947 articles at £4, 15s. 10дd. each. 11. 9034 hats at 8s. 11d. each. 12. 7250 at 2s. 3 d. 13. 6008 at £4, 5s. 61d. 14. 1296 articles at £40, 16s. 10ld. each. 15. 5198 articles at 14s. 7d. each. 16. 4204 at 4s. 7 d. 17. 1298 at 175. 9 d. each. 18. 1023 articles at £2, 5s. 3d. each. (b) 9462 articles at £3, 16s. 94d. each. 33. 8097 articles at £7, 17s. 10d. each. 34. 3825 cwt. at £2, 17s. 44d. per cwt. 35. 7689 articles at £7, 19s. 84d. each. 36. 1530 articles at 15s. 9d. each. 37. 1050 articles at 15s. 9d. each. 38. 385 yds. at £3, 11s. 10дd. per yard. 39. Find by Practice the value of 217 articles at £2, 175 74d. each. 40. 6413 articles at 4s. 10d. each. 41. 2037 cwt. of sugar at £1, 19s. 8d. a cwt. 42. 749 cwt. at 11s. 8d. per cwt. 43. 7841 at £70, 15s. each. 44. 527 yds. of cloth at 16s. 3d. per yard. 45. 165 cwt. at £2, 5s. 6d. per cwt. 47. 674 at £3, 19s. 61d. 49. 785 at £57, 15s. 71d. 53. 5694 articles at £3, 11s. 94d. 54 3544 articles at £120, 45. oąd. 55, 8976% articles at 8s. 11d. each. 56. 8697 yds. of velvet at £1, 75. 2d. per yard. 57. 89764 articles at £12, 9s. 44d. each. 58. 8967 pipes of wine at £50, 8s. 71d. per pipe. 59. 76984 articles at £2, 11s. 7d. each. 60. 3276 lbs. at £1, 13s. 24d. per lb. articles at £2, 4s. 44d. 65. 1587 articles at £130, 11s. 91d. 66. Find the cost of three thousand and thirty-seven articles at nine pounds fifteen shillings and tenpence three farthings each. |