9. If you know the width of your playground in yards, how can you find the width in feet? How can you find it in inches?

10. If you know how fast a boy can walk in an hour, how can you find the time it will take him to walk a given distance?

11. If you know the price per pound and the weight of a ham, how can you find its cost?

12. If you know the price of a pound of cheese, how can you find the cost of any number of ounces less than a pound?

13. If you know the cost of a ticket to a ball game and the total receipts from admissions, how can you find the number of persons who paid admission?

14. How can you find the number of hours there are in the month of June?

15. If you know the weight of the sirup in half a gallon, how can you find the weight of a gallon of sirup?

16. If you know the weight of a gallon of milk, how can you find the weight of a quart?

17. If you know the combined weight of the boys of the baseball team, how can you find the average weight of the team?

18. How can you find the number of hours in a year?

19. How can you find how many more pages there are in this book after this page?

87. In a Dining Car

Play that you are eating breakfast in a dining car, and that the waiter gives you the following bill of fare:

ORANGE 15c

BREAKFAST

Fruit

GRAPEFRUIT 25c

ORANGE JUICE 25c

BAKED APPLES AND CREAM 25c

STEWED PRUNES 15c STEWED PRUNES (WITH CREAM) 250
BANANAS AND CREAM 25c

1. What will you order if you have 60 cents to spend for breakfast? 75 cents? 90 cents? $1.00?

2. Find from the card the cost of each of the following orders:

Orange, a cereal, toast, and coffee.

Baked apples, Spanish mackerel, toast, and coffee.
Grapefruit, breakfast bacon, muffins, and coffee.
Bananas and cream, pork chops, toast, and tea.

3. Make out an order for four things that will not cost more than $1.25.

4. Each of you may make out a breakfast order for a fruit, a cereal, a beverage, and one other article. Ask your classmates to find its cost.

3. Write the largest whole number that can be made with the figures 6, 7, 8, and 9, and the smallest whole number that can be made with those figures. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number.

4. Four bins hold respectively: 18,643 bushels; 25,689 bushels; 19,708 bushels; 23,749 bushels. How many bushels can be put into the four bins?.

5. Multiply 435 by 204 and write the names of the terms.

6. Divide 1479 by 36 and write the names of the terms.

7. A wagon and the load weigh 4880 pounds. The wagon weighs 1880 pounds. What is the weight of the load? How many tons is that?

8. A mile equals 1760 yards. When a boy makes the 440-yard dash, is that more or less than a half mile? How much?

9. Name four fractions that equal; six that are each greater than ; three that are each smaller than 1.

10. A baby weighed 7 lb. when it was born and 247 lb. when it was a year old. Give its gain in one

year.

11. Burgh has put aside $17.75 to buy a $22 rifle. How much more must he save before he can buy it?

12. How much more does your mother pay for 4 pints of extra heavy cream at 50¢ a pint than for 6 pints at 32¢ a pint?

13. In 1920-1921, school children deposited in banks $4,158,050. In 1921-1922, they deposited $5,775,122. How much more did they deposit in 1921-1922 than in 1920-1921?

14. During this period, the number of depositors increased from 802,906 to 1,295,607. What was the increase in depositors?

89. Tests

Try to make 100 on each of the following tests or examinations. Check your work for every example.