WRITTEN PROBLEMS 1. A man has 42 dollars. (a) If he gives to charity, how much will he have left? (b) If he gives $3, how much will he have left? (c) Among how many persons can he distribute the money, giving $ to each person? (d) If this money is of the cost of a suit of clothes, how much is the suit worth? ៖ 2. A man left of his estate to his wife, to his daughter, to his son, and the rest to a hospital. What part to the hospital? 3. In one month a business man received 48 telephone calls from out of town and 592 in town. The out-of-town calls were what part of the total number? 4. Mr. Joslin has four fields whose areas are 421 A., 411 A., 4g A., and 4ğ A., respectively. Which field is the largest? The smallest? Find the area of all. 5. Mr. Jackson bought 200 feet of lumber at 33 cents. per foot, and 800 feet at 23 cents per foot. How much did he pay for the whole? 6. How deep in the ground is a flagstaff set if 19 of the total length of 65 feet is above ground? 7. At $22 per square foot, what is the value of a box of window glass of 24 lights, each light containing 55 square feet? 8. What must be added to 31 + 23 to make 163? 9. Mr. Field's gas bill in a month when he burned 2400 cubic feet was $245. Find the rate per 100 cubic feet. 10. What is the profit on 33 dozen baskets of plums bought at $1 and sold at $ a basket? 11. A buys of B 256 lb. of beef @ 83. B buys of A a barrel of flour for $7.50, and 360 lb. of sugar @ 5%¢. How much money is necessary to settle accounts, and who must pay it? 12. It takes 15 yards of cloth of a yard wide to make a dress. How many yards if the cloth is 14 yards wide? 13. What is the waste in cutting a board 14 ft. long to fill in 3 spaces each 4-5 ft. long? 14. The product of three numbers is 1571. numbers are 63 and 6. What is the third? Two of the How 15. A dealer puts up ammonia for household use by adding 9 parts of water to one of pure ammonia. much pure ammonia in 25 quarts of the solution? 16. How much ought a merchant to ask for goods costing $2% a yard to gain of the cost? To gain $1 ? 17. At $8 per M.. what is the cost of 38,000 bricks? 18. At the rate of 2 thousand per day for each mason, how long will it take 8 masons to lay 820,800 bricks? 19. A merchant sold 153 yd. of dress goods at 48¢ a yard. Two ninths of the amount received was profit. What was the profit? 20. Two boys made a gallon of lemonade, using 16 lemons at 30 cents a dozen and 2 pounds of sugar at 6 cents a pound. They sold it at 5 cents a glass, 6 glasses to a quart. How much was each boy's share of the gain? 21. Standard silver is 9 parts pure silver and 1 part pure copper. (a) How many ounces of pure silver in a quantity of standard silver weighing 80 ounces? (b) How many ounces of pure copper must be added to 90 ounces of pure silver to make an alloy of standard silver? 22. Fill out the following pay roll of one room in the Union Shoe Shop: 23. The following statement shows the time in which two men can each do pieces of work in a machine shop. Find the time in which the men together can do each piece 24. An oil tank can be emptied by two pipes in 8 minutes. If the larger pipe alone is used, it takes 12 minutes. How long will it take the smaller one alone? 25. The selling price of a lot of land was $440. This was more than it cost. What was the cost? 26. A series of three readings was given to raise funds for a summer playground. The price of tickets for the of series was $1 for general admission, and more for reserved seats. Seven hundred twenty tickets were sold, them for reserved seats. The rent of the hall was $25 a reading, $10 was paid for printing and advertising, and the reader received of the net receipts. How much was realized for the playground? 27. Mr. Allen made a business trip to a city 297 miles from his home, paying as follows: 88 miles on a mileage ticket at the rate of 2 cents a mile, 128 miles on a regular ticket at 27 cents a mile, and the remaining distance for $2.34. What was the total expense for the round trip? 28. A week later Mr. Allen traveled over the same route on a special round-trip ticket at the rate of 13 cents a mile. This was how much less than the expense of the trip in example 27? 29. A merchant buys 7 dozen dolls at $9 a dozen. If of them are broken by careless handling, at what price per doll must he sell the remainder to gain of the cost of the lot? REVIEW OF DECIMALS 1. Is a decimal a whole number or a fraction? Tell what names are given to these decimals: 2. .67 3. .0034 4. .003456 5. Write 8 so that it shall express tenths; thousandths; hundred-thousandths. Write in figures: 1. Five hundred sixty and forty-two hundredths. 3. Three thousand twenty-eight ten-thousandths. 4. Two hundred five hundred-thousandths. 5. Seventy thousand sixty-one and thirty-two thousandths. 6. Two hundred thousand two hundred and two hundredths. Read: 1. $4.50 as dimes; as cents. 2. 375 cents as dimes; as dollars. 3. $21 as dimes; as cents. 4. 75 dimes as cents; as dollars. 5. 4 dimes as cents; as dollars. 6. 2.5 as tenths; as hundredths. 7. .67 as tenths. 8. .256 as tenths; as hundredths. 9. .1728 as tenths; as hundredths; as thousandths. 10. .3001 as tenths; as hundredths; as thousandths. At sight, change to common fractions in their lowest terms: 1. .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9 2. .12 .16 .33 .37 .621.66 .871 .831 .81 |