REVIEW PROBLEMS 61 1. From a gallon of syrup, a quart and a pint are taken. How much syrup is left? 2. How many bags holding six pecks each will be required to hold six bushels of corn? 3. A train leaves one station at fifteen minutes after one, and reaches the next station half an hour later. At what time does it reach the second station? 4. What is the weight of three packages, two of which weigh ten ounces each, and one, five ounces? 5. A rectangular lot, containing sixty square yards, is twelve yards long. How wide is it? 6. If one pound of coffee costs 32 cents, what will four ounces cost? 7. A boy left home at eight o'clock in the morning and returned at noon. How many hours was he away? What part of the day was he away? 8. A rope is cut into 4 equal parts. One part is 3 feet long. What was the length of the rope? 9. In a basket of fruit there are 2 dozen pears. If half a dozen are taken out, how many are left? 10. The glass in a picture frame is two feet wide and three feet long. How many square feet are there in its surface? 11. A clock is fifteen minutes fast. What is the correct time when the clock shows half past three? 12. With what three pieces of money can five 3-cent car fares be paid? 13. If one peck of potatoes costs 25 cents, what will three pecks cost? Four pecks? 14. There were 12 pages in each chapter and 2 chapters in each part of a book having 2 parts. How many pages were in the book? How many pages were in each part? 1. Name the days of the week. 2. How many days are there in one week? 3. What part of the week is one day? Two days? 4. How many school days are there in one week? In three weeks? In five weeks? 5. How many days of the week are called working days? 6. How many more working days than school days are there in five weeks? 7. How many weeks are there in a month? 8. One week is what part of a month? Two weeks are what part? Three weeks are what part? 9. Name the months of the year. 10. How many months are there in a year? 11. What part of a year is one month? Three months? Six months? 12. What part of a year are the winter months? The spring? The summer? The autumn? 13. From 7 o'clock one morning to 7 the next morning is how many hours? 14. What is this number of hours called? 15. From noon to the next noon is how many hours? 16. A girl walked from half past eleven until half past twelve. How many hours did she walk? 17. John stayed at his uncle's from 10 o'clock Monday morning till 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. How many days did he stay? How many hours? 18. If you have, breakfast at 6 in the morning and supper at 6 in the evening, how many hours between breakfast and supper? 19. How many hours from a 7 o'clock breakfast to a luncheon at 1 in the afternoon? EXERCISES FOR PRACTICE EXERCISES ON FOURS AND FIVES 63 Read the lines across the page, answering the questions. Then read the columns from the top downward. The pupil may return to this page occasionally and drill briefly on the facts until they are mastered. 1. A tablet cost 25 cents and a reader 50 cents. Find 25 the cost of both. 50 How many dimes and cents in the sum? 2. I sold a peck of apples for 25 cents and a cake for 23 25 cents. How much did I receive? 23 How many dimes and cents in the sum? 3. What is the cost of a dozen eggs at 26 cents and one 26 pound of flour at 3 cents? 3 How many dimes and cents in the sum? 4. What must I pay for a tablet at 6 cents and a pencil at 5 cents? 6 5 Eleven cents equals how many dimes and cents? 5. What is the cost of a pound of butter at 26 cents and a peck of apples at 15 cents? 26 26¢ equals how many dimes and how many 15 cents? 15¢ equals how many dimes and how many cents? 26¢ + 15¢ =? 6. Write in figures and answer: 5 tens and 5 + 3 tens and 7 =? 7. Read the following as ones, and as tens and ones: 21, 32, 56, 49, 64, 73, 78, 87, 89, and 91. 1. John's bowstring was 19 inches long and William's was 2 inches longer than John's. How long was William's bowstring? 2. Mary sewed a seam 13 inches long and Kate sewed a seam 18 inches longer than the one Mary sewed. How long was Kate's seam? 3. Adam made a bench 18 inches long for the porch, and George made a bench 29 inches long. How long were the two benches together? 4. Add: 19 15 13 19 12 18 14 18 16 17 16 18 5. How many 10's are there in the answer in each problem just given? Why are there 3 tens in the answers and only 2 tens in the 10's columns of numbers added? 6. Add: 15 14 18 17 16 13 14 15 12 16 18 14 18 16 11 17 7. In each case in problem 6, how many 10's are there in the answer? Why are there four 10's in the answer and only three 10's in the 10's column of the numbers to be added? 8. Add: 12 14 16 12 18 14 15 14 18 17 17 . 9. In each case in problem 8, read the answer as ones and as tens and ones. |