16. How much must a dealer in farm supplies get for a hay rake costing $16.75 to make a profit of 30% ? 17. Henry buys newspapers at the rate of 2 for a cent and sells them at a cent apiece. Find his gain per cent. 18. A cotton mill has in its storehouse 4284 bales of cotton. If it uses 16% of its stock in a week, how long will the supply last? How many bales are used each week? 19. What is the loss in selling a horse that cost $165 for 7% less than cost? 20. Mr. Appleton paid $27.50 for a disc cultivator, and at the end of the season sold it for $16.50. cent of the cost did he receive? What per 21. A man built a house for $3750 and sold it for $675 above cost. What per cent did he gain? 22. Twelve per cent of an alloy is tin, and the rest How many pounds of copper in 245 pounds of copper. the alloy? 23. A galvanized steel grain tank that can be made for $24 is sold for $32.60. What per cent does the dealer make? 24. A picture dealer paid $18 for a picture and $6 for the frame. He sold both at a gain of 45%. Find the selling price. 25. A farmer bought 60 sheep at $4.50 apiece and sold them for $360. What was the gain per cent? 26. If green coffee loses 81% of its weight in roasting, how many pounds of roasted coffee will be produced from 375 pounds of green coffee? 27. What is the gain per cent in buying wheat at 90 cents a bushel and selling at $1.05 a bushel? 28. A barrel of flour (196 pounds) is put up in bags of 24 pounds. A bag of flour is what per cent of a barrel? 29. "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith, than Norman blood." Of 5 letters? What per cent of the words in this couplet are words of REAL ESTATE PROBLEMS Mr. Ballard bought a lot of land for $1200 and built a 4-tenement house upon it for $4800. 1. The first year after it was built he rented each tenement for $25 a month, and paid $75 for taxes and insurance. What was the gross income? The net income? The net income was what per cent of the cost? 2. The second year he rented each tenement for $24 a month, paid $75 for taxes and insurance, and $27 for repairs. What was his net income? This was what per cent of the cost? 3. The third year he rented one tenement for the year at $23 a month, one for 8 months at $20 a month, one for the year at $20 a month, and one for 10 months at $23 a month. He paid $75 for taxes and insurance, and $69 for repairs. The net income was what per cent of the cost? 4. The fourth year he received an average rental of $75 a month from the property, and paid $75 for taxes and insurance, and $225 for repairs. What per cent income? 5. The fifth year he received an average monthly rental of $17.50 from each tenement, and paid $75 for taxes and insurance, and $285 for repairs. What per cent income? 6. At the end of the fifth year he sold the property at auction for $5800, and paid the auctioneer $100 for his services. What per cent of the cost did he receive? 7. He then bought a farm of 605 A. at $72 an acre, and spent a sum equal to 20% of the cost in repairs. Find the total amount expended. 8. The following year he sold the farm at a profit of 3 of the total cost. How much did he receive for it? BASEBALL PROBLEMS The regulation baseball "diamond" is a 90-foot square. 1. Draw one on a scale of 1 inch to 30 feet. Mark the home plate H, and the bases 1, 2, 3. 2. How many square feet does the infield cover? What part of an acre? 3. How far does a player run in making a "home run?" What part of a mile? 4. The record time for a "home run is 14 seconds. How many feet in a second? 5. A "home run " is how much longer than a hundredyard dash? 6. The record time for a hundred-yard dash is 9 seconds. How many feet in a second? 7. The pitcher's "plate" is a rectangle 6 inches by 2 feet, the long side toward the home plate. What is its area in square feet? In square inches? 8. The distance from the front of the pitcher's "plate" to the rear of the home plate is 60.5 feet. The distance from the rear of the pitcher's "plate" to the center of second base is 66 feet 4 inches (nearly). How long a throw from "home" to "second"? 9. A ball is batted to "second," caught and thrown to "first," then thrown "home." How far has the ball gone? 10. In a certain number of games a left fielder had 36 chances and accepted 32. What was his fielding average? 11. Out of 132 times at bat, a player made 33 hits. What was his batting average? FINAL STANDING NATIONAL LEAGUE - 1910 12. Make a table showing the number of games lost, the number won, the total number played, and the per cent won by each club. Express the per cent to the nearest tenth. Thus, for Chicago, 181.675 67.5%. = = 13. Find the total number of times at bat; runs made; base hits; 2-base hits; 3-base hits; home runs. 14. Of the 1333 hits made by the Chicago team, 209 were 2-base hits, 84 were 3-base hits, and 34 were home runs. Find the total number of bases won by hits by the Chicago team; by each of the other teams. 15. Baseball scorers find the batting per cent of a team by dividing the number of hits by the number of times at bat. Thus, the batting per cent of the Chicago team is found by dividing 1333 by 4977. Find the batting per cent of each team. DISCOUNT Oral Mr. Wilson owes the doctor $50. At the time of pay ment the doctor deducts 10% of the bill. How much is deducted? |