MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES 275. 1. The strawberries grown on 4.5 acres of land were sold for $2377.35. What was the income per acre? 2. A cow gave 5738.35 lb. of milk in a year. How many quarts of milk did she give, if 1 quart weighs 2.15 lb.? 3. The cost of building a new road 21.7 miles long was $6983.06. What was the cost per mile? 4. A California road 25 miles long was sprinkled with petroleum, 175.5 barrels to the mile. Find the cost of the petroleum at 70 per barrel. 5. A farmer drew his produce to market, a distance of 6.75 miles, at a cost of $3.51 per load. What was the cost per mile of drawing a load? 6. If it requires a flow of 3.77 gallons of water per minute to irrigate 1 acre of land, how many acres can be irrigated by a flow of 207.35 gallons per minute? 7. If .92 of an iceberg is under water, how many cubic feet of ice are there in an iceberg that has 196,880 cubic feet beneath the surface? 8. In the United States the average cost of living in 1860 was $115.191 per person, and in 1904, $97.192. How much less on the average did a year's living for a family of 5 persons cost in 1904 than in 1860? 9. It is 89.885 miles from Albion to Utopia, and 101.215 miles from Utopia to Carthage. Find the cost, at $.13 per mile, of the coal consumed by a locomotive in making a run from Albion to Carthage. 10. One year an electric company operated 128.18 miles of its own track and 24.28 miles of track leased from another company. The operating expenses of the road were $334,421.01. Find the operating expenses per mile of track. REVIEW PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIES 276. A farmer in Tennessee had 6 acres of land devoted to peanut raising. Find the cost of: 1. Seed, 2 bushels per acre, at $1.02 per bushel. 2. Preparing the ground, $1.90 per acre. the 3. Planting, $1.10 per acre. 5. Harvesting, $16.50 per acre. 6. What was the total expense and what was the expense per acre? 7. The field produced 3541 bushels of peanuts. What was the average yield per acre? 8. How much was received for the crop, at 96 per bushel? 9. Find the profit on the crop. 10. In addition to the cost, $340.08, the buyer paid $50.70 to ship the peanuts to Chicago. He then sold them at $1.24 per bushel. Find his gain. 11. The buyer in Chicago sold 215 bushels @ $1.44 and the rest @ $1.36. How much did he gain, the cost being $439.27? 12. One year Virginia produced 3,713,347 bu. of peanuts; N.C., 3,460,439 bu.; Ga., 1,435,775 bu.; Ala., 1,021,708 bu.; Fla., 967,927 bu.; and Tenn., 747,668 bu. How many more bushels did Virginia produce than each of the other states? One year two boys and two girls rented a lot next to their house for a garden. Part of the lot had been used as a garden before, and contained some berry bushes. Some of the vegetables paid only for the cost of raising, but the following proved to be profitable : SEED YIELD 24 bunches 20. Find the sum received for lettuce, if of the crop sold at 5 per head, of the crop at 64 per head, and the rest at 2 heads for 15%. 21. The string beans were grown by the children in two lots, the first of which was of the whole yield, and brought 15¢ per quart; the second, picked in September, sold at 10 per quart. How much was received for string beans? 22. There were two crops of corn, one early and one late. The early crop yielded 132 ears, which sold at 20 per dozen, while the late crop sold at 16¢ per dozen. How much did the corn bring? 23. The tomato seed they had planted in a box in late winter, and had thus raised 90 young plants, 24 of which they set out for themselves. They sold the rest at 30 per dozen. How much did their tomato plants bring? 24. What were the total receipts for vegetables and plants? 25. One corner of the garden was devoted to raising flowers. A packet of aster seed produced 40 healthy plants which yielded 6 fine flowers apiece. At 25¢ per dozen flowers, how much money did the asters bring? 26. The first sweet peas were picked July 14, the last October 6. If the average number of stems picked per day was 36, how many were obtained during the season? 27. These flowers were sold at 18 per bunch of 36 stems. Find the proceeds from sweet peas. 28. The girls also planted some choice dahlia bulbs, and from the mature plants secured that summer 672 dahlias. Find the sum obtained by selling the dahlias at 20 per dozen. 29. What were the total receipts from flowers? from the whole garden? 30. The expenses of the garden were: cost of vegetable seed as found in exercise 13; 4 packets of flower seed a 10; 8 dahlia bulbs @ $2.85 per dozen; $4.27 for fertilizer; $8.50 for rent. Find the total cost. 31. Find the total profits from the garden, and each child's share, if the profits were divided equally. A gardener in Michigan set out of an acre of strawberries. 32. Find the cost of the plants; of the straw; of cultivation. 33. How much did the crates cost? the baskets? 34. Compute the cost of picking; of shipping and selling. 35. Find the expense of harvesting and marketing. 36. What was the gardener's total expense? 37. Compute the gardener's receipts for his crop. 38. How much did he gain? 39. Find the average price received for the crop per crate; per quart; the highest price per quart; the lowest. 40. What was the yield in quarts per acre? |