WRITTEN WORK 1. .8 of $160 is of what a man paid for a horse and buggy. If the cost of the horse was $156, how much did the buggy cost? 2. At $.125 per pound, how many pounds of meat can be bought for $25? 3. 40 min. equaled .25 of the time it took a boy to ride from Wilkesbarre to Scranton on his bicycle. Find the whole time. 4. A man bought 12.5 yd. of cloth for $31.25. How much did he pay a yard? 5. How many yards of tape at $ .125 a yard can be bought for $3.875? 6. If a man can walk 33.3 mi. in 9 hr., how far can he walk in 18.5 hr.? 7. If 7 yd. of velvet cost $ 4.20, how much will 15.6 yd. cost? 8. Find the cost of 27.5 lb. of fish at $.145 a pound. 9. A man bought 25.75 lb. of tea and sold .2 of it. How many pounds remained? 10. How many barrels of 31.5 gal. can be filled from a tank holding 1764 gal.? 11. If 3.5 cords of wood cost $11.375, how much WRITTEN WORK 1. From 2 and 2 tenths, take 2 tenths and 2 hundredths. 2. From 4 take 49 hundredths. 3. When butter is worth $.25 a pound, how many pounds can be bought for $9.25? 4. Divide 75 by ; by 2; by §. 5. A man in one month paid $91 for meat, $233 for groceries, and $12 for other necessary expenses. If he received $60 as his month's wages, how much had he left? 6. A farmer raised 304 bu. of corn. He sold .25 of it at $.40 a bushel, and .5 of the remainder at $.36 a bushel. How much did he receive for what he sold, and how many bushels had he left? 7. A man, dying, left property valued at $4800, to be divided among his wife and 4 children. His wife was to receive, and the remainder was to be equally divided among his children. his children. Find the share of each. 8. A man sold a horse for $125, and received in payment 12.5 yd. of cloth at $3.25 a yard, and the balance in tea at $.625 a pound. How many pounds of tea did he receive? ORAL WORK United States Money is the lawful money of the United States. It consists of two kinds, - specie or coin, and paper money. Specie or coin consists of metal, such as gold, silver, nickel, and bronze, stamped, and authorized by government to be used as money. Name the gold coins; the silver coins; the nickel; the bronze. Paper Money, issued for convenience in business transactions under authority of government, consists of printed promises to pay the bearer a stated amount on demand. National bank notes, United States notes, treasury notes, gold certificates, and silver certificates are some of the names of paper money now in circulation. Dollars are written as whole numbers with the dollar sign ($) prefixed. Dimes, cents, and mills are written as decimals, with the decimal point placed before tenths. Thus, 5 dollars 2 dimes 6 cents 3 ORAL AND WRITTEN WORK The terms eagle and dime in business are read as dollars and cents. Thus, 4 dollars and 2 dimes are written $4.20, and read 4 dollars 20 cents. Also 5 eagles, 4 dollars, 3 dimes, and 2 cents are written 54.32, and read 54 dollars 32 cents. The half-cent is written either as a fraction or as 5 mills. Thus, sixty-two and a half cents are written $.621 or $.625. Cents are frequently written as fractions of a dollar. Thus, $42.25 is often written $4225, and read forty-two 25 dollars. 100 100 1. How many cents are there in $? in $3? in $3? in $? in $5? 2. What part of a dollar is 5? 10? 20¢? 25¢? 3. 121 of a dollar. = 6. 621= of a dollar. 4. 1632= -of a dollar. 7. 871= of a dollar. 5. 371 of a dollar. 8. 8314=-of a dollar. = ― 9. How many dollars 800? 1000? = 10. How many mills = $1? $2? $7? 11. How many eagles = $20? $70? $100? 12. What part of an eagle is $1? $3? $9? 13. What part of 2 eagles is $5? $21? 14. Find the sum of 4.5 eagles, .371⁄2 of a dollar, WRITTEN WORK Since United States money is written in the decimal scale, all operations in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of United States money are performed in the same way as corresponding operations in decimals. 1. If 10.4 tons of coal cost $28.60, how much will 13.9 tons cost? 2. At $.37 per bushel, how many bushels of oats. can be bought for $39.37? 3. How many suits of clothes can be made from 130.2 yards of cloth, if 9.3 yards are required to make 1 suit? 4. Find the cost of 130.2 yards of cloth if 9.3 yd. cost $20.925. 5. If 21 tons of railroad iron cost $462, how much will 642.75 tons cost? 6. If 5.4 tons of hay cost $64 ($64.80), how many tons at the same rate can be bought for $680.40? 7. A family of 5 persons spent in one year of 365 days $1642.50. What was the average expenditure of each person per day? 8. At $.625 a yard, how many yards of merino |