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REVIEW PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIES

SUGGESTION. - When the problems are related to one another, the answer to each should be kept until the series is completed.

100. 1. A salesman bought a mileage book in New York, boarded the 8:30 A.M. Empire State Express, and rode to Buffalo. The next day he returned on the same train, leaving Buffalo at 1:00 P.M. Find his fare both ways at 2 ¢ per mile.

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2. How long did it take him to go to Buffalo? to return?

3. Find the average speed per hour each way.

4. The train left New York with 320 passengers; at Albany 75 got off and 69 got on; at Utica 32 got off and 46 on; at Syracuse 40 got off and 48 on; and at Rochester 55 got off and 21 on. How many passengers went to Buffalo?

5. All passengers paid fare at the rate of 2¢ per mile, except 133 purchasers of regular tickets in New York, who paid $.24 each in addition to the 2¢ per mile. Find the receipts from fares.

6. The parlor car company sold 21 seats to Albany @ $1, 17 to Utica and Syracuse @ $1.50, 38 to Rochester and Buffalo @$2, and the exclusive use of 2 drawing-rooms to Buffalo @ $7. In addition they received 1 per mile from the railroad company for the rent of the car. Find the total parlor car receipts.

7. Find the pay of the engineers for a trip at 3.5 ¢

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mile.

8. It takes a steel steamship loaded with wheat 140 hours

to go from Chicago to

Montreal via the Wel

land Canal, and 160

hours to make the return trip. Sixty hours are spent in port. How many days does it take for the round trip?

9. The distance between the two ports is 1266 miles. How many miles does the vessel travel in a season of 13 round trips?

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10. A vessel of this type carries, on an average, 75,000 bushels of wheat (60 pounds to the bushel) on each trip to Montreal and 1125 tons of other commodities on the return trip. How many more tons of freight does the vessel carry on a voyage to Montreal than on the return voyage?

11. Find the freight earnings for a season, at 5¢ per bushel "down" and $1 per ton "up.'

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12. How much more does the vessel earn going down than going up, each time? during the whole season?

13. The season's expenses are about as follows:

Wages and board, $7350
Coal, 230 tons per trip @ $3
Engine expenses, oil, etc., $500
Elevating 975,000 bu. wheat @
Shoveling wheat, at $4 per 1000 bu.
Wheat lost and damaged, $1950

Customs fees, etc., $500
Outfit and repairs, $2875
Insurance, $4600
Management, $2000 -
General expenses, $2000
Wear of vessel, $5750

Find the total expenses for the season.

14. Find the profit for the season; for 1 round trip.

15. Going up the St. Lawrence River the freight vessel must pass through canals. Their lengths are as follows: Lachine, 8.5 mi.; Soulanges, 14 mi.; Cornwall, 11 mi.; Farrans Point, 1 mi.; Rapide Plat, 3.5 mi.; Galops, 7.125 mi.; Murray, 5.167 mi. Welland Canal is 26.75 mi. long. How many miles must the vessel pass through canals to reach Lake Erie?

16. Welland Canal has 27 locks, giving a total lift from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie of 326.75 feet. Find the Find the average lift.

17. Find the freight charges on 136,000 pounds of farm machinery shipped from Chicago to Kansas City at 30 per 100 pounds.

18. Find the cost of transporting a stationary engine with boiler, weight 45,000 pounds, from Galveston to Denver at 74¢ per 100 pounds.

19. A bushel of shelled corn weighs 56 pounds. Find the freight on 8000 bushels of shelled corn, shipped by rail to Toledo at 12 per 100 pounds, and thence by water to Buffalo at 31 per 100 pounds.

20. A grain dealer shipped 5 car loads of shelled corn, 212,450 pounds, and 3 car loads of wheat, 189,700 pounds, from Omaha to Chicago. The freight tariff on corn was 124, and on wheat 11, per 100 pounds. Find the freight charges, including $3 per car for switching.

21. How much must a man pay to ship 700 bags of coffee, averaging 130 pounds each, from New Orleans to Chicago at 25 per hundred pounds? from New Orleans to Omaha at 35¢ per hundred? to Denver at 75¢ per hundred? to Memphis at 14 per hundred? to Salt Lake City at $1.50 per hundred?

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Of this cotton all but 76,942 bales was grown in Mississippi. In addition 21,650 bales of cotton grown in Mississippi were consumed by mills in the state.

How many bales of cotton did Mississippi produce?

23. How many more bales were shipped to New England mills than to North Carolina mills?

24. How much more cotton was shipped to New Orleans and Memphis than to all other places?

25. More than 6 times as many bales were shipped to Norfolk as to New York City. Find how many more.

26. Oct. 1 the reading of Mr. Hardy's gas meter was 15,200 (cubic feet); Jan. 1 it was 22,100; Mar. 1, 29,900; June 1, 34,300; and Oct. 1, a year after he began to use gas, 39,600. Find the cost of gas, for each quarter and for the whole year, at $1.20 per 1000 cubic feet.

27. Find the average cost per month, to the nearest cent.

28. Each of these heavy lines represents the population of a country. The number of millions is written above the line.

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How much greater or less is the population of the United States than that of each of the other countries?

29. How much does the population of Russia exceed the combined population of France, Great Britain, and Japan?

Find the

30. One district of France produced 3,525,000 tons of coal one year, having an average value of $3.06 per ton. value of the coal mined.

31. Find the cost at current prices in your home market, of 5 lb. butter, 6 qt. milk, 8 lb. beef, 12 lb. sugar, and 1.75 lb. tea. Find the cost in Paris at prices equivalent in our money to 50¢ per lb. for butter, 10 per qt. for milk, 40

for beef, 10 per lb. for sugar, and $1.40 per lb. for tea.

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32. Recently .32 of the 260,000 seamen employed on British merchant vessels were foreigners. How many were foreigners?

33. If the flour mills near Liverpool are capable of producing each hour 625 sacks of flour of 280 pounds each, how many sacks can they produce in 7 hours? how many pounds?

To how many barrels of 196 pounds is this equal?

34. If the match factories in the Japanese city of Kobé one year manufactured matches to the value of 9,450,000 yen, what was the value of the output, a yen being worth 49.8 ¢?

35. Of the 28,000 Germans who left their native land to live across the ocean one year, .93 came to the United States. Find the number of our German immigrants that year.

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