56 MULTIPLICATION OF FEDERAL MONEY. 5. What cost 9 barrels of flour, barrel ? 3. If a man earn $13. 46 cts. 2 mills per week, how much will he earn in 4 weeks? Ans. $53. 84 cts. 8 in. 4. What cost 420 pounds of butter, at 12 cents, 5 m. per pound? Ans. $52. 50 cts. at $7.50 cts. per Ans. $67. 50 cts. 6. Bought 85 yards of linen, at 85 cents a yard, what does it amount to? Ans. $72. 25 cts. 7. How much must I pay for 56 boxes of raisins, at $4. 88 cents per box? Ans. $273. 28 cents. 8. What cost 142 pounds of hyson tea, at $2. 62 cts. 5 m. per pound? Ans $372. 75 cts. 9. What would 750 acres of land come to at $17. 46 cents per acre? Ans. $13095. 10. Find the amount of the following bills: R. Elwell, New York, June 11, 1829. Bought of C. T. Stagg, 6 Yards of Broadcloth, at $6. 25 cts. per yard. 12 do. of Velvet, 14 do. of Satin, 56 do. of Linen, George Sharp, Received Payment, C. T. STAGG. New York, July 4, 1829. Bought of Samuel Johnson, Jr. 4 Boxes of Raisins, at 12 Pounds of Hyson Tea, at 28 do. of Coffee, at 17 do. of Citron, at 3 Barrels of Flour, at 14 Gallons of Wine, at 56 do. 7. 28 per bbl. 3. 75 per gal. Received Payment, $121. 20. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Jr. DIVISION. Q. What does Division teach? A. Division teaches the method of finding how many times a less number is contained in a greater. Q. What terms are used in division? A. Dividend, Divisor, Quotient, and Remainder. A. It is the number to be divided. Q. What is the divisor? A. It is the number which you divide by. Q. What is the quotient? A. It is the number of times the dividend contains the divisor. Q. What is the remainder? A. It is what is left after the quotient is found, and is always less than the divisor. Q. How do you place numbers in division? A. I place the divisor, which is always the less number, at the left hand of the dividend. Q. If the divisor be not over 12 how do you work? A. I find how many times the divisor is contained in the first figure or figures at the left hand of the dividend, under which I place the result. Q. If there should be any thing over, what do you do? A. I suppose it placed before the next figure, in the dividend, and divide as before. Q. If any remain from the last figure, what do you do? A. I set it down separately from the quotient as the remainder. Q. If the divisor be greater than 12 how do you work? A. I find how many times it is contained in the first figure or figures of the dividend as before, but I place the result at the right hand of the dividend for the first quotient figure. Q. What do you do next? A. I multiply the divisor by the figure which I place in the quotient, and set the product under the figures which I divided in the dividend, and subtract it from them. Q. How do you proceed? A. I bring down the next figure in the dividend to the remainder, and work as before, and so on until all the figures in the dividend are brought down. Q. After bringing down a figure from the dividend you find it is yet less than the divisor, what do you do? A. I place a cipher in the quotient, and bring down another figure. Q: How do you prove a sum in division? A. I multiply the divisor by the quotient, and add in the remainder, and if the amount equal the dividend the sum is correct. EXAMPLES. 1. If there are 36 cents to be divided between two boys, how many will each boy have? Cents. Divisor 2) 36 (Dividend. Quotient 18 cents. 2. If three boys have 66 apples to divide between them, how many will each boy have! Dividend. Divisor 3) 66 Quotient 22 apples. 3. If 4 men draw a prize of 3280 dollars, what is each inan's share? Dividend. Divisor 4) 3280 Quotient $820 4. Divide 48963 by 9. Dividend. Divisor 9) 48963 Quotient 5440- 3 Remainder. 5. If 24 yards of cloth cost 288 dollars, what is that a vard? Dividend. Divisor 24) 288 (12 Quotient. 24 48 48 00 5. How often is 365 contained in 75346 ? Dividend. Divisor 365) 75346 (206 Quotient. 730 2346 2190 156 Remainder. 7. How many yards of cloth, at 5 dollars a yard, can you buy for 365 dollars? Ans. 73. 8. How many barrels of flour, at 6 dollars a barrel, can be bought for 1956 dollars? Ans. 326. 9. If you lay up 7 cents a day, how long before you will have 2555 cents? Ans. 365 days. 10. If 8 shillings make a dollar, how many dollars will 600 shillings make? Ans. $75. 11. If you travel 9 miles an hour, how long will it take you to go 144 miles? Ans. 16 hours. 12. If 12 pence make 1 shilling, how many shillings are there in 1728 pence? Ans. 144 shillings. 13. If you pay 10 shillings a bushel for peaches, how many bushels can you buy for 15760 shillings. Ans. 1576. 14. If 13266 acres of land were divided among 11 persons, how many acres would each person have? Ans. 1206. 15. If 12 inches make a foot, how many feet long is a log that measures 960 inches in length? Ans. 80. 16. If I have 105 pounds of coffee which I wish to put in papers of 7 pounds each, how many papers must I have? Ans. 15. 17. If a man earn 360 dollars in 12 months, how much is that a month? Ans. 30 dollars. 18. How often is 9 contained in 724 ? 19. How many times is 11 Ans. 80 and 4 over. contained in 1206? Ans. 109-7 Remainder. contained in 896? Ans. 64. 20. How many times is 14 21. If a boy do 16 sums a day, how long will it take him to do 192 sums? Ans. 12 days. 22. In the Table book are 70 lessons, how long will it take a boy to get through if he learn 5 lessons a week? Ans. 14 weeks. Ans. 268. 23. Divide 6432 by 24. 24. If you wish to distribute 708 apples equally among 177 children, how many would you give to each? Ans. 4. 25. If you wish to put 7875 gallons of wine into hogsheads, containing 63 gallons each, how many hogsheads must you have? Ans. 125. 26. If 1008 tickets are divided equally among 24 boys, how many tickets will each boy have? Ans. 42. 27. If 125 yards of broadcloth cost 1375 dollars, what is that a yard? Ans. 11 dollars. 28. Divide 74328 by 756. Ans. 98-240 Rem. 29. How many times is 1025 contained in 625049 ? Ans. 609-824 Rem. 30. If an army of 480000 men were to be divided in companies of 125 men each, how many companies would there be? 31. Divide 1506000 by 9762. Ans. 3840. Rem. 2652. 32. How many times is 47960 contained in 95000000 ? Rem. 39200. DIVISION OF FEDERAL MONEY. Q. How is Division of Federal Money performed? A. If the sum to be divided be in dollars, I place two ciphers at the right hand, in the cents place, and one more in place of mills; but if it be in dollars and cents, place one cipher in the mill's place, and divide as before, pointing off the right hand figure of the quotient for mills, and the next two for cents, |