Answer all you can orally. 1. What will 4 gallons of molasses cost at $.22 a quart? 2. At $.60 a bushel, what will 5 pecks of potatoes cost? 3. At $.18 a dozen, what will 6 dozen eggs cost? 4. At $.26 a pound, what will 24 ounces of butter cost? 5. How many hours from 9:30 A. M. to 6:30 P.M.? 6. A rectangle 4 feet by 9 feet contains how many square feet? How many square yards? 7. How many strips of carpet 1 yard wide will it take to carpet a room 18 feet wide? 8. How many yards long must a strip of carpet be to reach from wall to wall of a room 21 feet long? 9. If a room is 18 feet wide and 21 feet long, how many yards of carpet a yard wide will be needed to cover the floor? 10. At $.50 a yard, what will the carpeting of such a room cost? 11. How many minutes are there between 11:15 A.M. and 3:45 P.M.? 12. At 4 cents a quart, how many pints of berries can be bought for 40 cents? 13. At $.02 each week-day, and $.05 each Sunday (4 Sundays), how much will the paper cost for March? 14. At 7 cents a yard, what will be the cost of three bunches of braid, each containing 5 yards? 15. A boy bought 20 evening papers for $.15 and sold them for 1 cent each. How much did he get for them? What was his gain? 16. How many persons paid cash fares if a street-car conductor collected $4.50 in 5-cent fares? 17. At 3 for $1, how many balls can be bought for $7? PURCHASES AND WAGES 1. What will thirty marbles cost at 6¢ a dozen? 2. What will six tablets cost at 2 for 15¢? 137 3. At three for 5¢, how many oranges can you buy for a quarter-dollar? For 75¢? 4. At 4 for 10¢, how many oranges can you buy for 60¢? For $1? 5. At 40¢ a yard, what is the cost of 2 yards of ribbon? Of 6 yards? Of 61 yards? 6. At the same price, what is the cost of 63 yards? Of of a yard? 7. Andrew kept an account of his earnings and savings in March and April. He earned $.15 a day from his paper route and 5¢ a day for carrying a lunch-basket, 7 days in the week. He earned also 50¢ a month for cleaning the cellar, and $1.20 a month for mowing the lawn. 8. How much did he earn each week carrying papers? 9. How much did he earn each week carrying lunch? -10. How much did he earn in March carrying lunch? 11. How much did he earn altogether in March? In April? 12. How much did he earn in the 2 months by carrying papers? By carrying lunch? If he had not carried the lunch-basket, how much would his earnings for the two months have been? 13. Andrew spent 6 cents every day for car fare, and $.10 a day for lunch. How much had he left each week? 14. At the end of the two months he bought a 5-dollar watch and a rake costing $1.25. How much money did he spend? How much had he left from the earnings of the 2 months? Add what he had left to $5 and find how many weeks he could pay for his lunches with it. 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder (1c) 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder (1c) 1 cup milk ( pint) Whites of 4 eggs 1 quart hickory nuts (1 lb. shelled) 1 teaspoonful vanilla (1c) 1. For making the hickory-nut cake, find the cost at the following prices: Sugar at 6¢ a pound; eggs at 18¢ a dozen. Butter at 24¢ a pound; flour at 2¢ a pound. Baking powder as given in the rule. Milk at 3¢ a pint; fuel at 3¢. 2. For the white cake, find the cost as follows: Baking powder and vanilla as given in the rule. 3. Counting the fuel at 2¢, find the cost of making the white cake. 4. If the two cakes were placed in the oven at the same time, what would be the difference in the cost of the fuel? 5. Mrs. Moore made 2 hickory-nut cakes and 3 white cakes to sell. Besides the expense of the materials, she charged 50¢ for the work of making each cake. How much did she receive for 1 hickory-nut cake? For white cake? For all the cakes she sold? 6. How much more did she receive for the 3 white cakes than for the 2 hickory-nut cakes? ALICE SMALL, Pleasantville, Ohio. 1 Box of paper .$0.35 1 Pencil tablet .05 1 Hard pencil .05 1 Eraser. .03 1 Brass-edged ruler .05 1 Small book cover.. .15 1. Alice bought a box of paper, a pencil tablet, a hard pencil, an eraser, a brass-edged ruler, and a small note-book cover. How much did she spend? 2. Charles bought three colored pencils, a bottle of ink, a thick note-book, a penholder, two dozen pens, two soft pencils, and a pencil tablet. How much did he spend? 3. Harry bought two packages of envelopes, three fivecent pencil tablets, 2 .pen tablets, 2 pencils of each kind, a 5-cent eraser, and a brass-edged ruler. He gave the clerk a dollar. How much change was due him? 4. William bought a large note-book cover, a pencil sharpener, 2 dozen paper fasteners, 4 medium pencils, at 5-cent eraser, 2 pen tablets. He gave the clerk one dollar. What was the correct change? 5. At prices given in the above list, how much would it cost to supply a school of 45 children each with the following: a pen tablet; two 3-cent pencil tablets; a penholder; a dozen pens; 2 soft pencils, and a brass-edged ruler? 1. How many squares are there in one row of A? How many rows of 11 squares each in A? In B? 2. How many 11's in A? In B? 3. 11 equals what part of 22? Of 33? Of 44? Of 55? Of 66? Of 77? Of 88? Of 99? Of 110? Of 121? Of 132? 4. 22 equals how many 11's? What part of 44? Of 66? Of 88? Of 110? Of 132? 5. 33 equals how many 11's? What part of 66? Of 99? Of 132? 6. 44 equals how many 11's? How many 22's? What part of 88? Of 132? 7. 55 equals how many 11's? - 8. 66 equals how many 11's? What part of 132? 9. 77 equals how many 11's? 10. 88 equals how many 11's? 11. 99 equals how many 11's? 12. 110 equals how many 11's? 13. 132 equals how many 11's? 66's? What part of 110? How many 22's? 44's? |