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1. Find the expense for each day in the weekly account. Find the yearly expense for car fare? For lunches?

2. At the salary given in the monthly account, how much would be saved in a year with the yearly expenses as given? In 5 years?

3. At the salary given in the weekly account, how much would a boy earn in a year? How much would he save, counting the yearly expenses as given?

4. Make and solve other problems from these accounts.

PROBLEMS OF SALES

Answer all you can orally.

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A merchant offered the following lots of goods for sale:

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3 dozen caps

4 dozen hats

10 boxes of collars, each holding

1. As sold in this way, what was the cost of:

A suit?

A handkerchief?

A pair of suspenders?

A dozen pairs of stockings?

A dozen shirts?

A pair of trousers?

A dozen hats?

A half-dozen collars?

A dozen handkerchiefs?

A dozen pairs of suspenders?

A box of stockings?

A pair of stockings?
One shirt?

A dozen caps?

A box of collars?
One collar?

2. A second merchant bought the whole lot of goods at $187. Did the first merchant sell for more or less than the price offered? How much was the difference between the two prices?

3. The second merchant then sold the following goods at one fourth more than the prices printed above:

One suit. Six handkerchiefs. One pair of suspenders. Three pairs of stockings. One shirt. One hat and one dozen collars. How much was the bill?

1. An acre of tobacco is valued at about $52; an acre of sweet potatoes at $37; an acre of sugar beets at $30, and an acre of peanuts at $14. At this rate, what is the entire value of 2 acres of each?

2. To send a telegram from Chicago to San Francisco costs $.75 for the first 10 words, and 5¢ for each added word. What would a message of 19 words cost?

3. At 40 cents for the first 10 words, and 3 cents for each added word, what will it cost to send the following telegram "Express two hundred Mother Goose, fifty Jo's Boys, one hundred twenty Little Women"?

4. Mrs. Brown had 3 sons. John earned $5 a week, Harry earned $7, and William as much as the other two. How much did William earn? How much did all earn? of his money each week. How many How much did he spend?

5. John saved dollars did he save?

6. Harry saved

of his money. How many dollars

did he save? How much did he spend?

7. William spent of his money. How many dollars did he save? How much did he spend?

8. How much did the 3 boys together save in a week? How much did they spend in a week? In 4 weeks?

9. A room is 12×15 feet. How many strips of carpet a yard wide will be needed to carpet it? How long will each strip be? How many yards will it take for the whole room? What will it cost at 40¢ a yard?

10. A block of granite containing 24 cubic feet was 2 feet high and 3 feet wide. How long was it?

11. A lamp post 12 feet long was 2 feet in the ground. What part of it was in the ground? What part was in the air? How many feet were in the air?

MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS

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1. An Angora kitten was bought for $6 and sold for more. What was the selling price?

2. If peanuts are bought at $5 a bushel and sold at 5 cents a half-pint glass, what is the gain on a bushel?

3. The railroad fare from Chicago to Madison, Wis., is $2.60. What will it cost for 5 persons to make the trip both ways?

4. What is the difference between the buying price and the selling price of a bicycle that was bought for $35 and sold for more than it cost?

5. A boy bought 3 oranges for 10 cents, and traded them for 5 apples. What were the apples worth apiece?

6. A boy bought a pony for $35. He had it shod for $2, and kept it a month at an expense of $4. He then sold it for $40. Did he gain or lose, and how much?

7. One spring the robins arrived in the country bordering the southern part of the Great Lakes, March 2. The bluebirds came 25 days later. On what date did the bluebirds arrive?

8. In 1900 the government gave $25,000 to the reindeer stations in Alaska. Only $19,330 was used. How much was left?

9. During the week ending March 4, 1905, there were received in the stockyards at Omaha, 69,296 cattle, 6124 calves, 178,077 hogs, and 73,400 sheep. The shipments for the same week were 32,191 cattle, 327 calves, 62,953 hogs, and 19,896 sheep. How many cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep together were received during that week?

10. How many cattle were not shipped? How many calves? How many hogs? How many sheep?

11. How many animals were not shipped?

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1. A tennis court is divided into 2 equal parts by the net, NT. The whole court is 78 feet long and 36 feet wide. How long and how wide is each half?

2. The court is divided into parts by lines as shown in the drawing. The strips, C, are each 4 ft.wide. How long is the part, B? B, is 18 ft. wide. How long is the part, A?

3. The parts, A, are of equal width. How wide is each? 4. The other half of the court is divided the same way. How long is the part, R? How long and how wide is the part, K? How do the parts, B and K, compare?

5. How long and how wide is the part, S? How long and how wide is the part made of both SS's?

6. The parts, C, fitted together side by side, would make how wide a rectangle? What is its area?

7. What is the area of the part, R?

8. What is the area of the parts, A, taken together? Of the parts, S? Of B? Of AA, B, and C, together? 9. What is the area of the whole tennis court? 10. Compare the answer to 9 with the area found by multiplying the length of the court by its width.

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