1. One year is -months. One foot is 4 3 6 2 2 3 6 inches. 2. A boy attends school 9 months in the year. How many months of vacation does he have? 3. A line 1 foot long is divided into two parts. One part is 3 inches long. The other part is inches long. 4. Walter has 4 apples and George has 9 apples. George has how many more apples than Walter ? 5. Two is one half of One half of 6 is 6. There were 10 pints of milk in a can. Four pints were sold. How many pints of milk were left? 7. A boy poured 2 pints of water into a gallon can. The can will hold more pints. 8. What is the sum of $6 and $3? Of $3 and $9? 9. A boy picked 9 boxes of berries. He sold 4 of them. How many boxes of berries had he left? Write the cost of the second purchase under the cost of the first, and the cost of the third purchase under the cost of the second, etc. 1. A man bought a horse for $43, a buggy for $44, a harness for $23, and $26 worth of hay and feed. How much did he pay for all? 2. A grocer sold 228 pounds of sugar on Monday, 333 pounds on Tuesday, 546 pounds on Wednesday, 44 pounds on Thursday, 234 pounds on Friday, 95 pounds on Saturday. How many pounds of sugar did he sell in the six days? 3. What is the sum of $3.94, $6.33, and $8.96 ? 4. How much more is $9.30 than $5.32? 40. Written Problems. 1. A farmer had 93 sheep. He sold 34 sheep. How many sheep did he have left ? 2. A boy was flying a kite with a string 400 feet long. The string broke. The piece in the boy's hand was 220 feet long. What was the length of the piece on the kite? 3. There are 48 pupils in Room A and 26 pupils in Room B. How many more pupils are there in Room A than in Room B? 4. There are 48 pupils in Room A, Room B, and 24 pupils in Room C. pupils are there in the three rooms? 26 pupils in How many 5. A man had 123 miles to travel. He traveled 84 miles the first day, and finished his journey on the next day. How far did he travel the second day? 41. Find the amount of gain or loss : 1. A man bought a horse for $120. He sold it for $88. 2. A man bought land at $95 an acre. He sold it at $63 an acre. 3. A boy bought a pony for $26. He sold it for $50. 4. A grocer bought flour at $.74 a sack. He sold it for $1.00 a sack. 5. A horse that cost $90 and a buggy that cost $40 were both sold for $145. 10. Three fourths are - eighths. Six eighths are fourths. 11. A boy ate one fourth of a pie. How much of the pie was left? 12. Three boys each ate one fourth of a pie. There was left fourth of a pie. 13. A boy had one fourth of a pie. He cut it into two equal parts to share it with another boy. Each boy had eighth of a pie. 14. A boy paid 2 cents for one half dozen apples. At the same rate, a dozen apples would cost cents. 15. Using lines, show one half, one fourth, and one eighth. 2. Give a number story suggested by each. A boy bought a lead pencil for 5 cents and a tablet for 8 cents. How much did he pay for both? 4. Count by 2's to 10. Count by 3's to 12. 5. Two 4's are -. One half of 8 is -. 6. In going home from a store a boy carried 4 pounds of sugar and 2 pounds of coffee. What was the weight of both packages? 7. A girl lives 4 blocks from the schoolhouse. How many blocks must she walk in going home and back at noon? 8. What is the sum of $8 and $5? Of $6 and $8? 9. There are 6 boys and 8 girls in a class. How many pupils are there in the class? 10. Seven years and - years are ten years. 11. George has 8 rabbits and James has 6 rabbits. Together they have - rabbits. |