Answer all you can orally. MEASURE OF LENGTHS 1. Measure off distances 1 inch, 1 foot, 1 yard, 1 rod (See problem 4, page 141). 2. Robert repaired 2 rods of fence for his father. How many yards did he repair? How many feet? 3. Susan had a hat which measured 14 yards around the rim. On the rim was a knot of ribbon. The hat blew off and rolled down the street. There were 9 marks in the dust made by the knot of ribbon. How many yards did the hat roll? 4. A pole 1 rod long is sometimes used to measure length. Often a yard stick, or a foot ruler, is used for the same purpose. With which one could the length of a city block be measured most quickly? The length of the school room? Of the teachers' desk? 5. A square-cornered lawn is 75 ft. long and 24 ft. wide. How many feet around the lawn? How many yards? 6. Richard's home is 8 blocks from the school house. The blocks are 40 rods long. How many rods is his home from the school? 7. How many yards are there in 2 rods? How many yards is Richard's home from the school? 8. A square-cornered city block, 600 feet long and 468 feet wide, was fenced in and used as a playground. How many feet long was the fence? How many yards long? SURFACE MEASURE Answer all you can orally. 1. Review pages 41 and 113 as oral work. 157 2. What does the drawing on p. 113 represent? To what scale is it drawn? 3. Measure off and cut out a square yard of paper. Divide it into square feet and cut again. Divide each side of one square foot of paper into inches and mark the points of division. How many inches are there on each side of the square foot? 4. Connect exactly opposite points by drawing straight lines. How large is each small space? How many square inches are there in 1 row? In all the rows? In 1 square foot? TABLE 1 square yard (sq. yd.) = = 9 square feet (sq. ft.) 144 square inches (sq. in.) 5. A checker-board is 15 inches square. How many square inches are there in a strip of it 5 inches wide? In a strip of it 10 inches wide? In the entire board? 6. The top of a table is 71⁄2 feet long and 4 feet wide. A table-cloth placed upon it hangs down 9 inches over the edges. How many square feet are there in the table cloth? How many square yards? 7. A bath room is 9 feet long and 5 feet wide. The floor is covered with tiling each piece of which is 4 inches square. How many square feet are there in the floor of the bath room? How many pieces of tiling are there in one square foot? How many pieces in the floor of the bath room? 8. Helen made a quilt for her doll's bed, 16 inches long and 10 inches wide, of pieces 2 inches square. How many pieces are there in it? 1. Review pages 115, 141 and 145 as oral work. 2. Ben and Richard were given a box of tools for Christmas. Among the tools were a foot-ruler, a yardstick, and a long tape-measure. Their father allowed them to have a vacant lot for a play-yard. They fenced the lot with wire, using 80 feet of wire to go around it once. The lot was 20 feet wide. How long was it? How many yards long was the lot? How many yards wide? 3. The boys made a 3-wire fence. How many feet of wire did they use? 4. In making the fence they placed posts at the corners and every 5 feet between. How many posts were used? 5. A flower-bed was made along the fence on one side of the lot. It was 3 feet wide and the length of the lot How many square feet were there in it? 6. In one corner of the lot the boys built a workshop. It was built against the corner of the fence and extended 9 feet along one side of the lot and 6 feet along the adjoining side. What was the area of the floor? How many square yards were in it? 7. The workshop was 7 feet high. How many square feet were there in each side wall? Each end wall? All the walls? How many square yards in all the walls? 8. There were 2 windows in the shop. One had 2 panes, each 12 by 15 inches, and the other 4 panes, 10 by 12 inches. How many square inches of glass were used? 9. The door was 6 feet high and 3 feet wide. How many square yards of space did it fill? 10. Under a tree in one end of the lot the boys built a bench 6 feet long and 18 inches wide. What was the area of the top of the bench? LIQUID MEASURE Answer all you can orally. 1. Review pages 44, 45 and 98 as oral work. 159 2. Dorothy bought for the Christmas baking: 3 quarts of molasses, at 12¢ a quart; 2 quarts of maple syrup, at 22¢ a quart; 2 quarts of cream, at 20¢ a quart; gallon of cherry vinegar, at 22¢ a gallon, and 3 pints of milk, at 6 cents a quart. What was her bill? 3. Amelia made 4 gallons of lemonade for a picnic. She sold it in pint glasses, at 5 cents a glass. How much Idid she receive for it? 4. Willis sold 9 gallons of milk at 6 cents a quart. How much did he receive for it? 5. Using a 1-gallon pail, Walter filled a barrel by pouring 31 pailfuls into it. How many gallons are there in 2 barrels? gallons were drawn at 6. From a barrel of vinegar 11 one time and 5 gallons at another. How many gallons remained in the barrel? 7. How many 2-quart cans are needed to hold 6 gallons of maple syrup? 8. A grocer bought 10 gallons of molasses for $5 and sold it at 15 cents a quart. How much did he gain? 9. Harry's lamp burns 3 pints of oil in 2 weeks. How long will 3 gallons of oil last him? 10. To make grape jelly it takes one pound of sugar to every pint of juice. How many pounds of sugar will it take for 2 gallons of juice? Answer all you can orally. DRY MEASURE 1. Review pages 46, 51, and 99 as oral work. 2. Anderson shelled 50 bushels of corn a day for 6 days. How many bushels did he shell in the week? How many pecks? 3. James picked 7 pecks of tomatoes for his grandmother to can. How many quarts did he pick? 4. Archie gathered 5 bushels of apples from the ground in his father's orchard. How many pecks did he gather? 5. If he sold the apples at 30 cents a peck, how much money did he receive for them? 6. A grocer buys chestnuts at 80 cents a peck and sells them at 15 cents a quart. How much does he gain on 1 peck? On 1 bushel? 7. A push-cart man pays $2 a bushel for raw peanuts. It costs him 20 cents a bushel to roast them. He sells roasted peanuts at 10 cents a pint. How much is the gain on 1 bushel? On 10 bushels? 8. How much is the gain on the 10 bushels in problem 7, if bushel spoiled before they were sold? 9. Potatoes are bought at $1 a bushel. If a grocer loses a peck in every bushel, and sells the rest at 40 cents a peck, how much does he gain on 8 bushels? 10. Cranberries cost $4 a barrel of 2 bushels. They are sold at 12 cents a quart. How much is the gain on 1 barrel, if none are lost in handling? How much is the gain if 8 pints are lost in handling? |