WRITTEN PROBLEMS 1. The number of immigrants to the United States for the year ending June 30, 1909, was as follows: Landing at Baltimore, 18,966; at Boston, 36,318; at New York, 580,617; at Philadelphia, 14,294; at San Francisco, 3103; at all other ports, 98,488. Find the total number. 2. Of the 654,875 immigrants to the United States from Europe in the same year, 170,191 came from Austria; 25,540 from Germany; 14,111 from Greece; 183,218 from Italy; 13,627 from Norway; 120,460 from Russia; 14,474 from Sweden; and 71,826 from the United Kingdom. What was the total number from these countries? What was the total number from European countries not mentioned? 3. A hardware merchant estimated the value of stock on hand January 1, at $14,813.76. During the year he bought goods to the value of $5817.56, and sold goods to the value of $12,627.98. What was the value of the stock on hand Décember 31? EXPORTS OF BOOTS AND SHOES FROM THE UNITED STATES IN FIVE YEARS Europe 1,149,899 1,257,004 1,215,428 1,241,649 1,235,670 North America 3,425,111 3,774,655 3,833,856 4,445,141 4,410,550 South America Asia Oceania Africa 206,117 197,549 229,478 266,347 229,387 362,646 312,869 460,469 490,566 205,871 68,467 64,923 Europe 2,472,608 2,591,144 3,062,988 3,154,107 3,021,711 North America | 4,238,642 | 5,367,349|6,167,179 6,660,657 | 6,183,859 South America 325,467 363,310 458,613 77,277 80,868 54,782 673,056 552,104 792,464 850,449 408,096 270,647 187,973 130,923 169,656 150,180 548,702 474,119 85,988 67,849 Asia. 4. Find the total number of pairs exported in 1905; their total value. 5. Find the same facts in regard to each of the other years. 6. What was the total number of pairs exported to Europe in the five years? Their total value? 7. Find the total shipments, and their total value, to each of the other parts of the world in the five years. 8. A merchant bought 12 dozen straw hats at 28 cents apiece and sold them at 45 cents each. How much did he gain? 9. Oscar sold 18 chickens and 14 doves for $7.30. He sold the doves at 20 cents apiece. How much did he get apiece for the chickens? 10. Mr. Spare bought from various farmers 24 cases of eggs, 30 dozen to a case, at 24 cents a dozen. He sold the lot for $187.20. What was his profit on a dozen? 11. The vote for governor in a state election was as follows: A. B., Democrat, received 229,352 votes; C. D., Republican, 194,173 votes; E. F., Socialist, 11,396 votes; G. H., Prohibition, 3277 votes; I. J., Socialist Labor, 2613 votes; all others, 20 votes. Find the total vote. By what plurality over C. D. was A. B. elected? 12. A wholesale merchant bought 360 barrels of apples at $1.12 per barrel. After sorting them, he had 325 barrels which he sold at $2.40 per barrel. How much did he gain? 13. The Mississippi River is 2775 miles in length and is navigable for 2429.5 miles from its mouth. For how many miles is it not navigable? 14. In going from Vicksburg, Miss., to Memphis, Tenn., a boat travels 369 miles. If Vicksburg is 362 miles above New Orleans, and Memphis is 432 miles below St. Louis, how many miles is it by water from St. Louis to New Orleans? 15. At the rate of 371⁄2 cents each, how much must be paid for one and a half dozen lace collars? 16. At the rate of 8 for a dollar, how many handkerchiefs can be bought for 75 cents? For $14? 17. An encyclopedia of 8 volumes bought for $56 was sold at the rate of $2.85 per volume. What was the loss? 18. A catch of 70,000 pounds of codfish was sold at $3.65 per hundredweight. After deducting the expense of the trip, $345, the balance was divided as follows: to the owners of the vessel, and the remainder equally among the crew of 21 men. What was each man's share? 19. A merchant buys neckties at the rate of 6 for a dollar and sells them for 25 cents apiece. What is the gain on a dozen? 20. A man earning $2.56 per day of 8 hours lost 121 hours' time in a week. What were his wages for that week? 21. An estate worth $23,274 was divided as follows: to the mother, and the remainder equally among 4 children. How much did the mother receive? How much did each child receive? 22. Frank raised 120 cucumbers which he sold at the rate of 2 for 5 cents. How much did he receive? 23. What is the difference in the amounts received in a year by two men, one of whom receives $75 a month, and the other 35 cents an hour, working 8 hours a day, 308 days in the year? 24. If the average yearly expense to a city for each pupil in the kindergarten is $27.18, in the primary school $16.58, in the grammar school $19.09, and in the high school $40.68, what is the total cost of educating a child who attends the kindergarten 2 years, the primary school 3 years, the grammar school 5 years, and the high school 4 years? 25. A test of a herd of cows showed that the 5 poorest ate feed worth $140 and returned $143 in product, while the 5 best ate feed worth $204 and returned $395. What was the average profit per cow of the 5 poorest? Of the 5 best? Of the whole herd? 26. A Maine farmer raised 2100 bushels of potatoes on 7 acres of land at a cost of $80 an acre, and sold his crop at $1 per barrel of 21 bushels. Find the profit per acre. 27. Another farmer in Maine harvested 6000 barrels of potatoes from 50 acres at a cost of $60 an acre, and sold them at $1 per barrel. Find his profit per acre. 28. If the average potato yield in the United States is 100 bushels per acre, find how many times the average yield was produced per acre in problem 26; in problem 27. 29. Fruit merchants in St. Louis bought the entire apple crop 15,760 barrels of a town in Massachusetts crop-15,760 at $1.75 per barrel. How much was paid? 30. Mr. Franklin received $300 from the sale of the crop from 25 apple trees. If the selling price was $1.75. per barrel, what was the average yield per tree? How 31. Mr. Peterson bought 28 acres of land for $630, and another lot at the same rate per acre for $945. many acres in the second lot? 32. At an agricultural experiment station a flock of 63 Merino sheep was fed in 110 days 2,785 pounds of oats, 3,135 pounds of corn, 514 pounds of bran, 324 pounds of oil meal, 743 pounds of mangels, and 14,360 pounds of hay. Find the total number of pounds of feed consumed; the average number of pounds of feed consumed by each sheep; the average number of pounds of feed consumed each day. UNITED STATES MONEY 1. How many half dollars in $6? ters? Dimes? Nickels? Cents? Oral How many quar 2. How many half dollars in $7.50? Quarters? Dimes? Nickels? Cents? 3. Express as dollars: 19 half dollars 57 dimes 63 nickels 25 quarters 206 cents 56 cents 7 cents 4. Inez paid a bill with dimes, nickels, and cents, using 10 dimes, one half as many nickels, and one fifth as What was the amount of the bill? many cents. |