SIMPLE ADDITION. You bought an orange for 9 cents, and a melon for 15 cents; what did you pay for both? James bought a top for 6 cents, a knife for 12 cents, and an inkstand for 8 cents; how much did they all come to ? Harry and James lost some money, James lost 20 cents, and Harry 12; how much did both lose? A boy laid out 10 cents in marbles, 8 cents in quills, 6 cents for a slate pencil; how much did he lay out in all ? You give 40 cents for a Practical Arithmetic, 8 cents for a ruler, 9 cents for an inkstand, and lose 6 cents; How much money has gone from you? A man gave his children money in the following manner; to his oldest 3 dollars, to James 5 dollars, to Thomas 9 dollars, and to his two daughters, 4 dollars apiece; How much did he give away ? A boy bought 20 marbles for 20 cents, 6 peaches for 8 cents, and 3 apples for 2 cents; how much money did he lay out? A man bought a cart for 6 dollars, a plough for 2 dollars, a pair of steers for 9 dollars, and 2 acres of land for 8 dollars; how much did he lay out in all ? How old would you be, were your age double what it now is ? If you had three times as many fingers, and thumbs as you have now; how many would you have in all ? How many quarters to an apple, or any thing? How many thirds to an apple, or any thing? If an apple, a number, or any thing is divided into 4 equal parts; what would one of those parts be called? A. One quarter, or 4. In the above, if divided into 3 equal parts; what would one part be called? If an apple or any thing, is divided into 5 equal parts; what would one part be called? A. One fifth, or 1. What would 2 parts be called? A. Two fifths, or 2. What would 4 parts be called? How many parts does it take to make 5 fifths? A. 5. How many parts does it take to make the whole ? A. 5. Why is the whole? A. Because the whole of the apple was divided into 5 equal parts. If of an apple cost 2 cents; what will a whole apple cost? If of an apple cost 1 cent; what will the whole cost? Note A.-Of the two following tables; the first is to be added from left to right; thus; 1 and 2 are 3: then the next line; thus; 1 and 2 are 3 and 3 are 6: then the next line; thus; 1 and 2 are 2 and 3 are 6 and 4 are 10: and thus with all the lines. The second is to be added from left to right, in the same manner. The learner in reciting either, is not to look on the book: the order of the figures being such, as to render it unnecessary. 12 123 1234 What is the sum of the following Numbers? A. 31 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 A. 24 9 9 A. 108 12345 123456 1234537 12345678 123456789. 123456789 10 5 5 666666 A. 28 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 A. 36 8 8 8 8 8 8 A. 45 9 9 999 9 9 9 9 9 A. 55 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 A. 120 A 66 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 A. 132 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A. 78 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 A. 144 123456789 10 11 If of an apple be worth 1 cent; how much is a whole apple worth? If of a vessel be worth 1000 dollars; how much is the whole vessel worth? How much is worth? If you give 300 dollars for of a house; how much is the whole house worth? How much is 23 worth? If of an apple cost 2 cents; what is the whole apple worth? If of a factory be worth 2000 dollars; what is the whole worth? 16 boys throwing stones at an apple tree, beat off a number of apples; says one boy, iny part is and I am entitled to one apple; How many apples is then? How many A? How many? How many? How many 12? How many 18 ? 16 men caught so many fish, that they could not count them; a bystander told one man that his part was 100, just of the whole; how many fish would be? How many ? How many ? How many 18? How many 12? How many fish did they catch in all ? 16 John was born twenty years after James; how old will James be, when John is 21? When Joseph was 21, he married a wife that was 10 years old, when he was born; how old was the wife when Joseph married? What is this which you have now been doing, called? A. Addition. What then may the putting together of 2 or more numbers, and finding how much they make, be called? A. Addition. What is the putting together, or collecting of several numbers, of the same kind, or denomination, called ? A. Simple Addition. What do you mean by the same kind, or denomination ? A. All pounds, all dollars, all cents, or all drams, &c. 1. RULE.-How do you place units, tens, &c.? A. Units under units, tens under tens, &c. 2. At which hand do you begin to add? A. Right. 3. How do you carry? A. Set down the right hand figure, and carry the left hand figure or figures, which is carrying one for every ten. 4. What do you mean by carrying the left hand figure or figures? A. Add them to the next column. 5. Suppose a column when added, should make 15; which figure would you set down, and which carry? A. Set down 5, and carry 1. 6. Which figure would you set down, and carry, in 18? 19 35? 20? 40? 65? 87? 95? 29? 100? 867? 212? 155? 7. What is the proof? A. Cut off the upper line, and find the amount of the rest; then if this amount and upper line, when added, be equal to the first amount, the work is right. 8. Why do you begin to add at the right hand? A. Because figures increase from right to left. 9. Why do you carry one for every ten? A. Because ten units make one ten, and ten tens one hundred, and so on. 10. How many are 20 and 30? By what name do you call the 50? A. Amount. Note C.-To save the trouble of having the pupil running up continually to his teacher to know if his sums be right and to prevent the learner from copying the answers on his slate from the book: indirect answers will be given through the book when that can conveniently be done in other cases direct answers will be given, Note D.-It is thought adviseable, whenever the operation of the first sum in any rule is given, to direct the pupil, after a careful attention to the questions in the book: to copy the sum on his slate, and from this to answer the questions respecting the work, without looking on the book at recitation. Exercises for the Slate. A man bought a cart for 25 dollars, a yoke o oxen for 69 dollars, and a plough for 7 dollars. What did he give for the whole? Cart 25 dollars In writing the sum down, why do you put the 7 under the 9? A. Because the 7 is units, and units must stand under units, tens under tens, &c. Whole 101 dolls. Ans. How do you get the 1 in the Ans. ? A. 7 and 9 are 16 and 5 are 21, set down 1 and carry 2. How do you get the 10? A. 2 to carry to 6 makes 8 and 2 are 10, set down the whole amount of the last row. A man bought a suit of clothes for 57 dollars, a pair of boots for 8 dollars, a secretary for 28 dollars. What did he give for the whole ? A. 93. In an orchard, 20 trees bear pears, 54 bear peaches, 6 bear plums. How many are there in the orchard? A. 80. A man bought a barrel of flour for 10 dollars, a barrel of molasses for 29 dollars, and a barrel of rum for 36 dollars. How much did he pay for all the articles? A. 75. James bought at one time 89 marbles, at another time 54, at another 60, and at another 75. How many did he buy in all? A. 278. A man gives 89 dollars for of a-chaise; how much must he give for the whole at that rate? A. 267. You expend for a gold watch 165 dollars, for a chaise 225 dollars, for a new suit of clothes 80 dollars, and give your father 400 dollars. How much money have you parted with in all ? A. 870 dollars. If of a vessel be worth 2265 dollars; what is the whole vessel worth? A. 6795 dollars. What is the whole stock which a man has in trade, worth, ifbe worth 3500 pounds? A. 14000 pounds. If one man own of a bank, and his part cost 26000 dollars; what would the whole be worth at that rate? A. 208000 dollars. Suppose my neighbour should borrow of me, at one time 656 dollars, at another 50 dollars, at another 3656 dollars, and at another 5000 dollars; how much did I lend him in all? A. 9362 dollars. A merchant owes 617 dolls. to Messrs. B. & T. C. Hoppin, 516 dolls. to Messrs. B. & C. Dyer, 600 dolls. to the Exchange Bank, 1000 dollars to the Union Bank; I demand how much he owes in the whole? A. 2733 dolls. A merchant bought at one time 600 barrels of beef, at another 500 barrels, at another 416 barrels; how many barrels did he buy in the whole? A. 1516 barrels. James was born A. D. 1800; what year of our Lord will it be, when James is 37 years of age? A. 1837. Gen. George Washington was born A. D. 1732, and lived 67 years; in what year did he die ' A. 1799. From the creation of the world to the flood, was 1656 years, from thence to the building of Solomon's temple, 1336 years, thence to the birth of our Saviour, 1008 years; in what year of the world was the birth of Christ? A. Anno Mundi 4000. *The teacher will observe that the amounts of the several sums are divided by 3, and the quotients given for the answers will be found in sum No. 11, each quotient being set against the No. of the sum: that he may more readily tell, if the sum be right. |