NOTE. - This measure is used in measuring grain, fruit, salt,

coal, &c.

1.

How many pints in 4 quarts? In 10 quarts?

2. How many quarts in 12 pints? In 20 pints? In 30 pints?

In 6 quarts?

In 18 pints?

3. How many quarts in 4 pecks? In 8 pecks? 4. How many pecks in 16 quarts? In 32 quarts? In 64 quarts?

5. How many pecks in 4 bushels? In 5 bushels? In 9 bushels?

6. How many bushels in 12 pecks? In 32 pecks? In 48 pecks?

7. What costs 1 bushel of corn, at 3 cents a quart?

8. What cost 2 pecks of cherries, at 4 cents a pint?

9. How many quarts in 2 bushels? In 3 bushels?

10. How many pints in 2bu. 3pk. 4qt.?

11. If 3 pints of cherries cost 15 cents, what will 1 bushel cost?

NOTE. This measure is applied to the various divisions and subdivisions into which time is divided.

The following table will exhibit the names of the months, and the number of days in each.

1. How many seconds in 2 minutes? In 3 minutes?

2. How many minutes in 120 seconds?

3. How many minutes in 2 hours? In 4 hours? 4. How many hours in 2 days? In 3 days? 5. How many days in 48 hours? In 72 hours? 6. How many days in 4 weeks? In 6 weeks? In 9 weeks? In 10 weeks?

7. How many weeks in 14 days? In 84 days?

In 63 days?

8. How many months in 6 years? In 10 years? 9. If you can read 6 pages in 12 minutes, how many hours will it take you to read 10 times as many?

10. Charles is 8 years 3 months old, and John is 7 years 10 months; how many months is Charles older than John?

11. If a man can earn 60 dollars in 3 months, in how many months can he earn 100 dollars?

12. If in 5 hours 3 pairs of shoes can be made, in how many days, of 10 hours each, can 24 pairs be made?

1. How many units in 4 dozen? In 8 dozen? 2. What cost 4 dozen peaches, at 2 cents apiece?

3. What costs 1 gross of writing-books, at 10 cents each?

4. How many score in 60 pounds? In 100 pounds?

5. What cost 12 score of pork, at 10 cents a pound?

6. What costs 1 gross of pens, at 5 cents a dozen ?

7. What costs 1 ream of paper, at 10 cents a quire?

8. What costs 1 quire of paper, when 3 sheets can be bought for 2 cents?

9. At $11 a hundred-weight, what costs 1 barrel of beef?

10. Bought a barrel of pork at 12 cents a pound, and sold it at $15 a hundred-weight; how much was made by the sale?

11. Bought wheat at 3 cents a pound, and sold it at $2 a bushel; how much was made on a bushel?

12. Bought beef at $18 a barrel, and sold it at 12 cents a pound; how much was made on a barrel?

LESSON XXV.

1. When any thing or number is divided into two equal parts, what is each one of those parts called? Ans. One half.

2. How many halves in a whole one?

3. What is meant by a half of any thing?

4. If a pear be worth 2 cents, how much of it is worth 1 cent?

5. What part of 2 is 1?

6. How many halves are there in 2?

NOTE. Since there are 2 halves in 1, in 2 there are 2 times 2 halves, which are 4 halves.

7. How many halves are there in 4?

In 10? In 30? In 50 ?

8. How many halves in 2 and 1 half? halves.

In 5?

Ans. 5

9. How many halves in 3? In 4 and 1 half? In 9 and 1 half? In 11 and 1 half? In 12 and 1 half?

10. How many whole ones are there in 2 halves? In 6 halves? In 30 halves?

11. What is 1 half of 3? 12. What is 1 half of 5?

Of 32? Of 55?

Ans. 1 and 1 half.

Of 7? Of 19? Of 6?

13. 7 is how many times 2?

14. 13 is how many times 2?

15. When any thing or number is divided into three equal parts, what is each one of those equal parts called? Ans. One third.

16. What are two of those equal parts called? Ans. Two thirds.

17. How many thirds in a whole one?

18. What is meant by one third of any thing? By two thirds?

19. If 1 third of an orange be worth 1 cent, what are 2 thirds of it worth? What is the whole of it worth?

20. If an orange be worth 3 cents, how much of it is worth 1 cent? 2 cents?

21. How many thirds are there in 2? In 3? In 6? In 9? In 10?

22. How many thirds in 2 and 1 third? In 4 and 2 thirds? In 11 and 1 third?

23. How many whole things in 6 thirds? In 7 thirds? In 19 thirds?

24. What is 1 third of 4? Ans. 1 and 1 third. 25. 4 is how many times 3? 26. 9 is how many times 3? 27. 16 is how many times 3? 28. 47 is how many times 3?

29. How many is 1 third of 5? Of 11? Of 17? 30. When a cord of wood costs $6, what costs 1 third of a cord? 2 thirds of a cord?

NOTE. Since 1 cord costs $6, 1 third of a cord costs 1 third part of $6, which is $2; two thirds cost 2 times $2, which are $4.

31. If a barrel of sugar is worth $18, what is 1 third of a barrel worth? 2 thirds of a barrel? 32. When 5 quarts of cherries can be bought for 35 cents, what part of 21 cents will 1 quart cost? 2 quarts?

33. If an apple be divided into 4 equal parts, what is one of those parts called?

fourth.

Ans. One

34. What are two of those parts called? Three

of those parts called?

35. How many fourths in a whole one?

36. What is meant by a fourth of any thing?

By two fourths? By three fourths?

37. What part of 4 is 1? 2? 3?