PROBLEMS IN WEIGHING 297 1. At 10¢ an oz. how much will 3 lb. of cinnamon cost? 4 pounds? 2. What will a ton of hay cost at ¢ a pound? 3. A bushel of wheat weighs 60 pounds. How many bushels are there in a load of wheat weighing 1 T. 6 cwt. and 40 pounds? 4. A family uses 75 lb. of ice every day for 20 days. What does it cost them at 35¢ per hundredweight? 5. From 10 cwt. of sugar a grocer sold 8 cwt., 40 lb., 12 ounces. How much was left? 6. What was the cost of 3 lb., 8 oz. of meat at 16¢ a lb. and 2 lb., 12 oz. of butter at 20¢ a pound? 7. A bushel of oats weighs 32 pounds. How many bushels in 80 hundredweight? 8. From a keg of nails weighing 1 cwt., at one time, 15 lb. and 8 oz. were taken; at another, 9 lb. and 12 oz. What was the weight of the nails remaining? 9. How many bales of cotton, each weighing 450 lb. may be shipped on a vessel which can carry 2250 tons? On a vessel that can carry 3600 tons? 10. What will it cost to have 7 tons of coal hauled at 75¢ a load of 3500 pounds? 11. 500 bbl. of flour are shipped in 20 equal loads. How many tons in each load? (1 bbl. weighs 196 pounds.) 12. A man hauled 8 loads of wheat, 35 bu. at a load. A bushel of wheat weighs 60 pounds. What was the weight of the 8 loads? How many hundredweight in each load? 13. A farmer owning 700 bu. of oats sold 9 loads of 2240 pounds each. One bushel weighs 32 pounds. How many bushels had he left? In 5 yr.? In 1 hr.? 2. How many minutes in 3 hr.? In 2 hr.? In hr.? In one day? yr.? 3. In 4 yr. how many days? In 2 yr.? In 4. How many seconds in 5 min.? In one hr.? In hr.? Inday? 2. Find the time from June 6, 1885, to Aug. 12, 1889. Use the numbers that indicate the order of the months in the year instead of the names. Call Jan., 1; Feb., 2, etc. Aug. 12, 1889 = 3. Find the time from: Jan. 2, 1865, to June 5, 1887; 4. A boy works of each day (24-hr.) for 6 days at 20¢ an hr. What is his week's salary? He works 10 hr. overtime; half of that time at 15¢ a half hour and the rest at 20¢ a half hour. What is his pay for the extra work? 5. A man leaves his office for home at 5:45 P.M., and arrives 45 min. later. What time does he reach home? 6. A fast mail train runs from Chicago to Burlington in 5 hr. 20 min. 45 sec. A freight train runs the same distance in 9 hr. 40 minutes. How much longer does it take the freight train? 7. James was born September 18, 1887, and Willie was born December 21, 1892. How much older is James? 1. There are 18 windows in each side of a car. How many windows are there in the sides of 397 cars? 2. There are 319 pages in a book. How many pages are there in 369 such books? 3. In a 7-story building, there are on each of the sides, 27 windows on each story; there are on each of the ends 16 windows on each story. How many windows in all? 4. A street paved with stone blocks contains 65 stones in width and 786 in length. One man must buy half of the stones. If they cost him 7¢ each, how much does he pay for them? 5. How many grains will 1648 silver dollars weigh, if one dollar weighs 412 grains? 6. A man rides his bicycle 116 miles a day. How far from the city can he go and return in 12 days? 7. It is 195 feet between telegraph poles. How much wire is needed to put up 6 wires on 257 poles? 8. A merchant bought 97 rolls of carpet, 27 of them containing 56 yards to the roll; 34 containing 59 yards to the roll, and the remainder 63 yards to the roll. How many yards did he buy? 9. A manufacturer sold 65 cases of shoes at $2.75 a pair, each case containing 6 dozen pairs. What was the value of his sale? 10. A farmer had 2365 bushels of wheat. He sold 1240 bushels at 65¢ a bushel; 643 bushels at 85¢ a bushel, and the remainder at 96¢ a bushel. How much did he get for the entire crop of wheat? 11. A merchant's sales were $127 a day for 23 days, $156 a day for 19 days, and $113 a day for 32 days. How much was the total amount of his sales? |