TABLE OF CUBIC MEASURE 277 1. A boy cut enough wood to make a pile 4 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, and 2 ft. high. What part of a cord did he cut? 2. What must be the cubic contents of a jar to hold of a gallon? 2 gal.? 44 gallons? 3. How many cubic inches are there in a box holding 2 bu.?bu.? 5 bu.? 4 bu.? 6 bushels? 4. A cord of wood is usually piled 8 ft. long and 4 ft. wide. How high is it? 5. A box holds 16 bu. How many cubic inches does it contain? 6. How many cu. yd. of earth must be dug out to make a cellar, 24 ft. long, 21 ft. wide, and 12 ft. deep? 7. In making a cellar 36 ft. long and 18 ft. wide, 6804 cu. ft. of earth were taken. How deep was the cellar? 8. How many cu. yd. of earth were taken from a tunnel that is 9 ft. high, 80 ft. long, and 12 ft. wide? 9. A cubic foot of water weighs 1000 ounces. What is the weight in pounds of water enough to fill a trough 6 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, and 11⁄2 ft. deep? 10. Oil weighs as much as water. What is the weight in pounds of a cubic foot of oil? 11. A street sprinkler holds 168 cu. ft. of water. How many pounds does it hold? 12. Such a street sprinkler is emptied every 24 minutes during 9 hours. How many buckets of water are used if a bucket holds of a cubic foot? 13. A rectangular tank, 6 ft. wide, 10 ft. long, and 3 ft. deep, is full of water. What is the weight of the water? 14. 35 cu. ft. of coal weighs about 2000 pounds. How many tons does a wagon box 7 ft. long, 3 ft. wide, and 2 ft. high hold when loaded full? 1. Add, prove, and note the time you take: 2. Add, prove, and note the time you take: 222 24 234 7382 8 8 9 7 5 2 8 8 6 1 5 3 4 5 6 3. Subtract, and note the time you take: 600 700 509 268 321 463 866 711 301 400 4. Multiply, prove, and note the time you take: 28 68 75 68 47 43 59 6. Prove the results of problem 3, by adding the difference to the subtrahend in each case and comparing the sum with the minuend. Note time. 7. Prove the results of 5 by multiplying quotient by divisor and comparing the product with the dividend. 4. A milkman starts with 42 gal. of milk. He sells of it to private customers and the rest to a hotel. How many quarts does he sell to the hotel? 5. A druggist put 1 qt. of liquid into bottles holdinggi. each. How many bottles did he use? 6. How many jelly glasses holding of a pt. each can be filled from 1 gal. of jelly? 7. How many cubic inches are there in 32 liquid quarts? How many more cubic inches are there in 32 dry quarts (1 dry qt. 32 bu.) than there are in 32 liquid quarts? = 1. How many pint bottles will hold 2 gal. 1 pt. of vinegar? What is it worth at 13¢ a quart? 3 2. If a gallon of olive oil cost $4, what will 5 pt. cost? 3. From a milk can holding 8 gal., of the milk was spilled. How many quarts were left? How many gallons? 4. How much ice cream will a man make if he uses a gallon and a half freezer and makes it full twice, and half full the third time? 5. How many gal. in 412 gills? 6. What part of 12 gal. is 4 gallons? 7. A man sold 12 cans of mineral water, each holding 6 gal. at 15¢ per gal. How much did he receive? 8. How many oil barrels, each holding 45 gal., can be filled from a tank holding 10,800 gal. of oil? 9. A hotel uses 25 gal. 3 pt. of milk each day. How much does it use in 3 weeks? 10. There are 231 cu. in. in 1 gal. How many cu. in. in a bottle holding 2 quarts? 11. How many cubic inches in a cistern holding 10 bbl.? 12 bbl.? 16 barrels? 12. From a barrel of vinegar a grocer fills 2 four-gallon jugs and puts 3 gal. and 1 qt. in another jug. How many gal. had he left in the barrel? 13. A man sells 3 gal. and 2 qt. of molasses to one customer, 2 gal. and 1 qt. to another customer, and 1 qt. and 1 pt. to a third. How many quarts did he sell in all? How many gallons? 14. From a barrel full of rain water, 80 qt. were taken out at different times. The water remaining in the barrel measured 40 qt., the rest having evaporated. How much water evaporated? |