1st.

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS.

What is the total weight of T. 10

T. 8 3qr.; cwt. 15 8 oz.; and 27 lb. 14 dr.?

15 cwt.;

Ans. T. 19 10 cwt. 3 qr. 27 lb. 8 oz. 14 dr. 2d. What is the total weight of 4 hhds. of sugar. weighing as follows, viz. No. 1. cwt. 15 2 qr. 27 lb.; No. 2. cwt. 13 25 lb. 13 oz.; No. 3. cwt. 10 3 qr.; and No. 4. cwt. 9 19 lb. 11 oz. 15 dr.?

Ans. Cwt. 48 3.qr. 16 lb. 8 oz. 15 dr.

APOTHECARIES WEIGHT.

1. Q What is Apothecaries Weight?

A. It is that which Apothecaries use in compounding their Medicines, but they buy and sell by Avoirdupois Weight..

A. 20 Grains,marked gr.make 1 Scruple,marked sc.

3 Scruples,

8 Drams,

12 Ounces,

1st. An Apothecary mixes seveal parcels, of medicines weighing as follows,viz. one parcel, lb.75 11 oz. 3 dr.; another lb. 20 9 oz. 2 sc.; another lb. 11 7 dr. 19 gr.; and another lb. 4 6 oz. 1 sc.-What does the whole weigh? Ans. lb. 112 3 oz. 3 dr. O sc. 19.gr.

TIME.

1. Q. What is the Table of Time?

A. 60 Seconds, (sec.)make 1 Minute, marked min.

60 Minutes,

24 Hours

7 Days

1 Hour.

1 Day.
1 Week.

ho.

da.

W.

mo.

13 Months, 1 da. 6 ho. 1 Julian year.

365 days 6 ho. 1 year.

Q. How is the year divided?

A. Into 12 Solar or calendar, and 13 Lunar months. 3. Q. Name the calendar months?

A. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and

December.

4. Q. How many days in each month?

A. No more than 30 days has the month of September,
The same may be said of April, June and November,
The rest of the months have each 31,

Except that short one, February alone;
Which to itself claimeth just 8 and a score,
But in every leap year we give it one more.

NOTE-When the year can be divided by 4 with

out a remainder, it is leap year-thus 4)1824

1.

A.

2.

CLOTH MEASURE.

Q. What is the use of cloth measure?
It is used in measuring cloths &c.

Q. What is the Table?

A. 2 Inches (in.) make 1 Nail, marked

na

1Quarter of a yard. qr.

4

4 Nails

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS.

1. In four pieces of cloth measuring as follows, viz. the first 10 yds. 3qr. 2na.; 2d. 9yds. 1qr.; the 3d. 11yds.; 3na. and the 4th. 15 yds. how many yards.

ns. 46yds. 1qr. Ina.

2. In 5 pieces of cloth, each measuring 25 E.Ells. 1qr. 3na. how many Ells? Ans. 126 E.E. 3qr. 3na

LONG MEASURE.

1 Q. What is Long Measure?

A.

It is that by which are measured distances, or any thing where length is considered without regard to breadth, or thickness.

2 Q. What is the Table?

A. 3 Barley corns make 1 Inch, marked

12 Inches

in.

360 Degrees one circumference of the earth.

4 Inches make 1 Hand, used in measuring the

From A. to B. is 15 mi. 2 fur. 16 po.; from B. to C. 10 mi.; from C. to D. 20 mi. 25 po. 3 ft. 9 in.; and 6 fur. 35 po. 15 ft. 11 in.;—how Ans. mi. 54 1 fur. 37po. 21 ft. 8in.

from D. to E. 8 mi.

far from A. to E.?

LAND OR SQUARE MEASURE.

1. Q. What is Land or Square Measure?

A. It is that by which are measured all things that have length and breadth, without regard to thickness. 2. Q. What is the Table ?