1. A farmer sold five loads of hay weighing as follows: .45 ton,.625 ton, .54 ton, .375 ton, and ton. How many tons did he sell?

2. The sides of an irregular field measure 30.65 rods, 42.15 rods, 18.07 rods, 19.05 rods, 20.02 rods, 17.024 rods. How many rods less than a mile (320 rods) is the distance around the field?

3. From a hogshead of molasses containing 84 gallons there are drawn 6.5 gallons, 12.75 gallons, 15.625 gallons, 20 gallons, .75 gallon, and 3.25 gallons. How many gallons are left?

4. Mr. Brown sold land as follows: .78 acre, acre, 6 acres, .871 acre, and .7 acre. How many acres did he

sell?

5. The statute knot used in measuring distances on the sea is 1.151 miles. What is the speed in miles of a steamship making 20.5 knots an hour?

6. How long a bolt will be required to fasten together two planks, one 3.5 inches thick and the other 2.25 inches thick, allowing .375 of an inch for the head of the bolt and .375 of an inch for the nut?

7. A surveyor finds the length of a schoolhouse lot

to be 69.85 yards.

Express the length in rods. (5.5 yards

make 1 rod.)

8. How many yards in 82.3 rods?

9. The French franc is worth 19.3 cents.

are how much less than a United States dollar?

Five francs

10. How many French franc pieces are equal to $3.86 in our money?

11. At the rate of .9 of a dollar per thousand cubic feet, Mr. Wilson's gas bill for November was $3.15. How many thousand cubic feet were used?

12. A bushel of wheat occupies 1.25 cubic feet of space. How many bushels will a bin hold whose capacity is 52.5 cubic feet?

13. The English pound sterling is worth $5.8665 in United States money. Five English pounds sterling are worth how much more than 5 5-dollar United States gold pieces?

14. A quart of water weighs 2.08 pounds (nearly). What is the weight of the water in a kettle holding 2.5 gallons?

15. Milk is 1.03 times as heavy as water. What is the weight of a gallon of milk?

16. A clerk in a store receives $2.50 a day. The head of the department receives .2 more, and the errand boy .4 as much as the clerk. How much does the head of the department receive? How much does the boy receive?

17. How many yards of cloth in 36 bolts of 40.75 yards each?

1. At sight, subtract each fraction from 10.

2. Find the sum of each column; of all the columns.

3. Find the sum of each row; of all the rows.

4. Make a table similar to that above, expressing each fraction as a decimal.

5. Find the sum of each column; of all the columns.

6. Find the sum of each row; of all the rows.

500 sheets are frequently called a ream.

Paper is quite generally sold by the pound.

1. How many dozen in 75 eggs? In 100 eggs?

2. How many oranges in 3 dozen? In 25 dozen?

Oral

3. Compare a dozen with a score. A score with a dozen.

4. How old is a man who is "threescore years and ten "?

5. How many score in a century?

6. At 2 cents each, how much will a gross of pencils cost?

7. How many gross of pencils in 8 boxes of 6 dozen each ?

8. How many sheets in a ream?

9. How many envelopes must be bought to match 21 quires of letter paper?

10. What is the cost of of a ream of paper at 20 cents a quire ?

11. At $2 a ream, what is the cost of 6 quires of paper?

3. What are the dimensions in feet of a house lot 2 rods by 4 rods? What is the perimeter of the lot in feet? 4. Express as parts of a mile the dimensions of a lot 80 rods by 40 rods. Express its perimeter in miles.

5. A fathom is 6 feet. A cable length is 120 fathoms. A ship is anchored 3 cable lengths from shore in 151 fathoms of water. Express distances in feet.

6. Noah's ark was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. A sacred cubit is 1.824 feet. Give the dimensions in feet.

7. A military pace is 21 feet. At 120 paces a minute, how long will it take a regiment to march a mile?

8. How many feet of wire must be used in building a framework for grapevines, if there are 4 rows, each 3 rods long and 6 wires high?

9. How many rails 30 feet long will be required to lay a railroad track of a mile long?

10. An aviator reaches a height of 11,474 feet. Express the height in miles.

11. A stone contractor agreed to furnish 280.5 feet of curbing at $14.20 per rod. What was the total price?

What

12. Five house lots side by side measure, respectively, 70 ft. 6 in., 62.75 ft., 4 rd., 22 yd., and 571⁄2 ft. is the total frontage in feet?

13. A map is drawn on a scale of 1" to 371⁄2 miles. What is the distance between two places 3 inches apart?

14. On another map, 1" represents 1 rod. How many feet does a line 1' 3" long represent?

15. Letting 1" represent 160 rods, draw a line to represent the distance between two places 14 miles apart.

16. A contractor who was to build a piece of railroad track 2 miles long was obliged to stop work after completing 525 rods. What part of the work was unfinished?

17. At $4.92 per bale of 20 rods, how much must Mr. Jenkins pay for the wire fencing necessary to inclose his pasture, 14 rods long and 6 rods wide?