nation in the given sum; then divide as before, and so proceed.

13 4 by 31 Quotient 3 13

189 14 0 by 95
17 51⁄2 by 47

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2. Divide 113

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4.

38

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6.

7.

8.

132 0 8 by 68 3236 12 4 by 654 250 by 48 3528 by 32

APPLICATION.

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1. Sold 3 yards of muslin for 3L. 9s. 6d. what was the price per yard?

it

Ans. 1L. 3s. 2d.

2. Paid 17s. 6d. for 4 bushels of salt: how much was

per bushel?

Ans. 4s. 41d.

3. If 8 pounds of sugar be sold for 10s. 6d. what is the price per pound?

Ans. 1s. 34d.

4. Bought 8 yards of linen for 3L. 11s. 8d. what was the price per yard? Ans. 8s. 111⁄2d. 5. Sold 132 yards of cloth for 221L. 18s. 6d. How much was it per yard?

Ans. 1L. 13s. 7 d.

6. What is the price of a bushel of wheat, when 42 bushels are sold for 17L. 13s. 6d.?

Ans. 8s. 5d.

PROMISCUOUS QUESTIONS.

1. Bought 2 pieces of linen, one of which contained 30 yards, and the other 25 yards; the price was 7s. 6d. per yard: what was the cost of the two pieces?

Ans. 20L. 12s. 6d. 2. Sold one piece of cloth, containing 41 yards, at 2L. 18s. per yard; and another piece containing 36 yards, at 2L. 6s. 6d. per yard: what is the amount of the whole? Ans. 202L. 12s.

3. A person has 500L. 18s. 9d. He owes to one man 25L. 10s. to another 76L. 18s. 9d. to another 175L. 10s. and to another 100L. What sum will he have left after paying these debts? Ans. 123L. 4. A grocer has 10 bags of coffee, weighing each 120 pounds, and 2 bags, weighing each 160 pounds. If he sell 560 pounds, what quantity will remain?

Ans. 960lb. 5. Bought 4 pieces of linen, containing 25 yards, 3. quarters, each, and 3 pieces containing 32 yards, 2 quarters, each; from which was afterwards sold 125 yards: what number of yards was then remaining? Ans. 75yds. 2qrs.

6. A farmer has three tracts of land, the first contains 125 acres, 3 roods; the second, 200 acres, 2 roods, 18 perches; the third, 175 acres, 10 perches. He intends dividing this land equally between his two sons: what will be the share of each son? Ans. 250A. 2R. 34P.

7. A person, at his decease, left property to the amount of 2425L. 19s. His will directed that 200 pounds should be given to the poor, and that the remainder should be divided, equally, amongst his 3 daughters. What is the portion of each daughter? Ans. 741L. 19s. 8d.

8. Bought 10 yards of muslin, at 3s. per yard; 6 yards of tape, at 3d. per yard; and 7 yards of linen, at 7s. 6d. per yard: how much did the whole amount to? Ans. 4L. 4s.

9. Sold 19 bushels of wheat, at $2.37% per bushel; 15 bushels of rye, at 75 cents per bushel; and 95 bushels of Indian corn, at 873 cents per bushel: how much did the whole sale amount to? Ans. $139.50. 10. If I buy 15 pounds of sugar, at 10 cents per lb. and 17 pounds of rice, at 5 cents per pound, and 19 pounds of candles, at 174 cents per pound; how much must I pay for the whole? Ans. $5.783. 11. What is the amount of the following bill?

JAMES JOHNSON

Philadelphia.

Bought of Samuel Williams,
7 yards of coating at 17s. 6. a yard.
of broad cloth at 45

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Of Foreign Coins, &c. with their value in Federal money, as established by a late Act of Congress.

A TABLE OF COINS

Which pass current in the United States of North America, with their Sterling and Federal Value.

All other Gold Coins of equal fineness, at 89 cents per dwt. and Silver at 111 cents per oz.

COMPOUND REDUCTION.

Compound Reduction teaches to change any sum or quantity which consists of several denominations, to a given denomination; and to change a sum of one kind of money to a given denomination of another kind.

When a sum or quantity, consisting of several denominations, is to be changed to a given denomination, work by the following

RULE.

Reduce the highest denomination to the next lower one, and this again to the next lower, and so on; observing to add to the amount of each denomination the number there is of that denomination in the given sum or quantity.

*The former of these two operations is given merely to render the application of the rule more intelligible; the method of adding in the denominations of the sum, as in the latter operation, should be explained to the scholar.