ORAL. 1. A watch cost $20, and a chain cost $7. more did the watch cost than the chain? toes, 2. Half a bushel of berries is how many quarts? 9 How much is planted with potawith corn, with oats, the rest to pasture land. How many acres each are there of potatoes, corn, oats, and pasture ? 5. A man bought a horse for $85. He paid $10 in money, How much was his watch and gave his watch for the rest. worth? 6. 25 cents is what part of a dollar? of a dollar is how many cents? 7. 21 is 14 more than what number? 8. 3 is what part of 36? 9 is what part of 36? 9. If $9 is of my money, how much money have I? 10. Grace spent 5 cents for a watch-key, and had 27 cents left. How much had she at first? 11. How many cents in two dollars and ninety-four cents? 12. How many dollars in six hundred forty-two cents? 13. If of a yard of ribbon costs 2 cents, how many yards can you buy for 32 cents? 14. How many yards is it round a rectangular rug 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide? 15. George earns $6 a month selling papers, and John earns as much. How much do both boys earn in a month? much in 6 months? How 16. Jennie had 11 quarts of nuts, and sold 8 pints. How many quarts had she left? 17. A grocer has 7 gal. 2 qt. of kerosene. How long will it last him if he sells a quart a day? 18. James has 9 cents; John 3 times as many less 6. How many has John? 10 MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS. 1. Add: $6.84, $47.76, $96, $4.85, $46, $9.73, $75. 2. Multiply 4240 by 70. 8. Add: 6273, 7348, 4859, 5926, 8769, 3452, 8437. 4. At 89 a quart, what will 32 gal. of vinegar cost? 5. A farmer put his corn into 9 bins, putting 534 bu. into each bin. How many bushels of corn did he have? 6. Find the area of a piece of ground 219 yards long, and as many yards wide. 7. Multiply 478 by 28. 8. Divide 4764 by 4. 9. At $6 an acre, how many acres of land can be bought for $3456? 10. Find the number of square inches in a piece of cloth, 6 ft. long, and 9 in wide. 11. I sold land for $4670, which was $575 less than I paid for it. What did it cost me? 12. A farmer raised 135 bu. of potatoes in each of 24 fields. How many bushels did he raise? 13. How many half-inch squares are there in a rectangular sheet of paper 10 in. wide and 8 in. long? 14. If 1 acre of land costs $9, how many acres can you buy for $6570? 15. What will 786 lb. of sugar cost at 6 a pound? 16. What number added to 2176 will give 5124? 17. Simplify: 596 +378 + 216 432 674 +963 459 18. A man bought a house and lot for $3475, and sold it for $4350. How much did he gain? MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS. 11 1. Mr. Jackson paid $457.25 for a horse, $287.50 for a carriage, $56.75 for a harness, $12.35 for robes, and $1.75 for a whip. How much did he pay for all? 2. Below are a dealer's sales for a week. Find the value of the sales for each day, and also the value of each kind of merchandise for the week. Flour, $175.25 $67.85 $246.29 $47.50 $116.11 $230.40 3. If your parlor is 18 feet long and 14 feet wide, and your sitting-room 16 ft. long and 12 ft. wide, how many feet of picture moulding do you need for both rooms? 4. I owe a grocer $75. If I begin Monday and pay him $5 every day during the week, how much shall I owe him Saturday night? 5. My coal cost me $52.75 last year, and $4.25 for carrying it into the cellar. This year my coal was $47.36, and $6.37 for carrying it in. How much more did my coal cost me last year than this? 6. A doctor owes a grocer $287.83, and the grocer owes the doctor $175.28. If the doctor should pay the grocer $28.36, how would their accounts then stand? 7. I bought 623 books at $7 each. cost? How much did they 8. A man bought 197 desks at $5 each. How much did they cost? 9. How many weeks are there in 3675 days? 10. Add: $4.05, $16.16, $11.07, $8.50, $9.60. 11. Add: $6.17, $30.07, $48.19, $94.05, $117.48. 12. Add: $8.97, $0.65, $17.41, $109.66, $75.19. 1. What will 5 bbl. of flour cost at $6 a barrel? 2. What part of 7 yards is 5 yards? 3. When coal is $6 a ton, what part of a ton will $3 buy? 4. If you can buy a gallon of vinegar for 15 cents, what part can you buy for 3 cents? 5. If you divide 16 peaches equally among 4 children, what part and how many will each receive? 6. When land is $20 an acre, what part of an acre can you buy for $5? 7. When peaches are selling at the rate of 5 for 8 cents, how many will 56 cents buy? 8. What number is that, which, if divided by 3 times 4, the quotient will be 8? 9. How many cows at $50 each can a man buy for $300? 10. How many 2-cent postage stamps can you obtain for 40 cents? 11. A boy had 20 marbles and lost of them. How many did he lose? 12. 12 times 6 are how many times 8? 13. After buying 7 balls, George had five cents left. If he had 40 cents at first, how much did he pay for the balls? How much for each ball? 14. A rectangle is 6 in. long, and contains 24 square inches. How wide is it? 15. A rectangle contains 32 square inches, and is 4 in. wide. How long is it? 16. What is the perimeter of a triangle, measuring 5 inches on each side? 18. A boy sold a knife for 75 cents, and gained 17 cents. How much did the knife cost him? |