2. A train due at 8:50 arrived half an hour late. At what time did it arrive? 3. A train due at 10:35 was 45 minutes late. When did it arrive? 4. Dan's watch was 3 minutes fast. It read 8:02. What was the correct time? 5. Sarah's watch was 7 minutes slow. When it reads 4:28, what is the correct time? 6. Mary is in school from 8:45 A.M. till 11:45 A.M. and from 1:15 P.M. till 2: 45 P.M. How long is she in school in the morning? In the afternoon? How long each day? 7. Which of these times are day time: 7:45 A.M.; 3:15 A.M.; 10:05 P.M.; 2:30 P.M.; 9 A.M. ? 8. How long is it from 8 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.? (a) Learn the abbreviations in the tables of liquid measure Dry MeasuRE 2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.) (b) How many quarts are there in a bushel? (c) Black walnuts are sold at 30¢ a half peck. How much should Earl receive for 1 peck of walnuts? For 1 bushel? 3. Cherries are sold at 20¢ a half peck. How much is this for 1 peck? For 1 bushel? For 1 quart? 4. If new potatoes are sold for 25¢ per peck, how much is this per bushel? 5. If 1 quart of ice cream will serve 7 people, how many people will 1 gal. of ice cream serve? 6. I can buy potatoes at the store at $0.50 a peck. How much is this per bushel? How much would I save by buying a bushel for $1.50 from a farmer instead of buying a bushel at the store at 50¢ a peck? 7. How much should a dealer receive for 3 bu. of apples sold at 40¢ a peck? Do the written work on pages 138, 142, and 143. Measures of Weight (a) How many ounces are there in 1 pound? In pound? In pound? In 11⁄2 pounds? (b) What articles are sold by the pound? By the ounce? (a) What measures of length have you already learned? Learn these facts and abbreviations: (b) Make a foot ruler out of cardboard. Divide it into half inches, and quarter (fourth) inches. (c) Measure the length of this page to the nearest quarter inch. Write this length on the board: in. (d) Draw a line on the board which you think is 6 in. long. Measure it to the nearest quarter inch. are you wrong? How far (e) Measure your height to the nearest quarter inch. (f) Draw a line exactly 2 ft. 6 in. long. How many inches is this? Divide this line into two equal parts. How many inches long is each part? How many feet and how many inches over is this? (g) A concrete walk is 30 in. wide. How many feet and inches is this? 30 in. = — ft. — in. 11. Find the total length of 6 boards each 26 inches long. How many feet is this? 25. The children in our schoolroom wanted to hang a red ribbon the length of the room to tie Christmas pictures on. We found that the room was 42 ft. long. How many yards of ribbon should we buy? 26. February usually has 28 days. How many weeks is this? 27. Dick worked 20 minutes a day for 6 days, or minutes in all. How many hours did Dick work? 28. There are 32 quarts in 1 bushel. If Sam picked 352 qt. of strawberries, how many bushels did he pick? 29. Sam picked 72 pint boxes of raspberries. How many quarts was this? 30. Our grocer put up 4 lb. of pepper in 1-ounce packages. How many packages did he put up? PLAYING FARMER AND HOUSEKEEPER 1. Play you are a farmer, and have 7 cows. If each cow gives 8 quarts of milk a day, how many quarts do all 7 cows give every day? How many gallons is this? 2. If you plant 840 strawberry plants in 5 equal rows, how many plants are there in each row? 3. If you raise 65 bushels of potatoes and sell 37 bushels, how many bushels will you have left? 4. One day you rake 13 loads of hay, 16 loads the next day, and 19 loads the third day. How many loads of hay do you rake in the three days? 5. If you raise 945 bushels of corn on 9 acres, how many bushels is this to the acre? 6. You have 7 pigs weighing 350 lb. each on the average. How much do the 7 pigs weigh in all? 7. Mr. Brown, who owns the farm next to yours, raises 19 bushels of wheat to the acre. If you raise 31 bushels of wheat to the acre, how many more bushels do you raise on every acre than Mr. Brown does? |