2. Take the yard-stick, and see how many yards it is round the schoolroom.

3. Take a string 16 ft. long, and see how many rods it is round the schoolroom.

4. How many yards in 6 feet?
5. How many feet in 24 inches?
6. How many feet in 36 inches?
7. How many inches in 1 yd.?
8. How many rods in 11 yards?
9. How many feet in 4 rods?

10. Which is longer, 5 yards or 16 feet?

11. Which is longer, 5 yards or 15 feet?

12. How many yards in 2 rods?

13. How many inches in yd.?

14. Name two objects in the room 1 rod apart.

15. It is 4 rods from my house to my barn; how many feet long is a wire that reaches from one to the other?

16. How many inches in 9 feet?
17. How many feet in 25 yards?
18. How many yards in 8 rods?
19. How many inches in yard?
20. How many yards in 2 rd. 3 yd.?

21. If a yard of ribbon should be cut into 6-inch pieces, how many pieces would there be?

22. Take your string that is a rod long and see how many pieces 6 inches long can be cut from it.

MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS.

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1. A man owed $1725; he paid $150 at one time, $275 at another, and $390 at another. How much does he still owe?

2. Bought some flour for $60, a ham for $3, and a box of starch for $2. What change should I receive for a $100 bill? 3. If 5 men divide 640 acres of land equally, how many acres does each man get, and how much is each man's share worth at $75 an acre?

4. What is the sum of and § ?

5. If I had of a yard of ribbon, and have used of a yard, what part of a yard have I left?

6. Sold goods for $20, and thus gained $5. What did the goods cost? What per cent was gained?

7. John has $300.25, and William $175.15. How much more has John than William? How many dollars have both of them?

8. What will 75 bbl. of flour cost at $6.25 a barrel?

9. What will a peck of chestnuts cost at 12 10. How many gallons in 512 pints of oil?

cost at 30% a gallon?

11. Reduce 180 bushels to quarts?

12. What is 333% of 1200 sheep?

a quart? What will it

13. A man sold a horse for $200 that had cost him $150. How many dollars did he gain? What per cent did he gain? 14. What is the wall surface in a room whose sides are 12 ft. in length, 10 ft. in width, and 9 ft. in height?

18. 5 lb. 7 lb. - 3 lb. + 9 lb. - 11 lb. are how many

pounds?

1. If 8 lb. of meat cost 48 cents, what will 10 lb. of meat cost?

2. How much must be paid for 12 books at the rate of 5 books for 50 cents?

3. If of the price of a cow is $5, what is the whole price of the cow?

4. What is the value of 9 bu. of potatoes at the rate of of a bushel for 20 cents?

5. If of a pound of starch costs 9 cents, what will 1 pound cost?

6. How much will 6 bushels of apples cost, if of a bushel costs 10 cents?

7. 9 is of what number? 10 is of what number? 8. 40 is of what number? 50 is of what number? 9. A man sold a cow for $24, which was ‡ of what he paid for her. What did she cost? What did he lose?

49? 84?

10. What are of 42? 63? 11. A watch cost $10 more than of $40. 12. Mary has of 30 roses, and Sarah many roses have they both?

13. What are of 9? 12? 15? 18? 14. What are of 24? 21? 30? 36?

15. How many inches in 9 feet and 6 inches?

16. How many feet in the length of each side of a square yard? How many square feet in a square yard?

17. How many gills in 6 pints? 8 pints? 3 quarts? 1 gallon? 18. How many pints in 5 quarts? 9 quarts? 1 peck? 1 bushel? 19. How many quarts in 3 pecks? 7 pecks? 3 bushels? 24 pints?

20. 3 and 6 are what parts of 12? 21. 7 and 3 are what parts of 21? 22. What is the relation of 7 to 42?

2. How many little squares in the part not crossed off? 3. We call this 75% of the square. Can you tell why? 4. What part of the whole square is 75% of it?

5. 75% is how many times 25% ?

6. Draw a line 12 in. long. Cross off 75% of it. What per cent have you not crossed off?

7. Copy and learn: 75% of an article is of it.

8. Find 75% of 16 apples. Find 75% of $20. 9. Find 75% of 36 oranges. Of 24 horses. 10. In Fig. 2 how many parts per cent, then, is not crossed off?

are not crossed off? What

11. What part is crossed off? What part is not crossed off?

12. What part of anything, then, is 663% of it?

13. How much larger is 663% of an apple than 331% of it? 14. Find 66% of 9. Of 27.

15. Draw 2 squares on the

Of 36.

board each 12 in. Cross off 75% of one of them and 663% of the other.

16. Draw 2 circles. Cross off from one of them 75% of it. Cross off from the other 66% of it.

17. Which is larger, 75% of 28 or 66% of 30? How much larger?

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PERCENTAGE PROBLEMS.

1. There are 186 acres in a certain lot. How many acres would you buy if you bought 333% of the lot?

2. If a pile of wood costs $70, what will 20% of the pile cost?

3. A man bought a horse for $240 and sold it so as to gain 25%. How much did he gain?

4. A man bought a watch for $64, but paid for only 25% of it. How much did he pay?

5. Find 20% of $500. 6. My barn cost $500.

do I owe?

10% of $100.

I owe for 20% of it.

How much

7. What is 25% of a gallon? 33% of a yard? 50% of a quart? 50% of a peck?

8. How much does 25% of an acre of land cost at $144 an acre?

9. How much will 50% of a gallon of vinegar cost, if 1 quart costs 6 cents?

10. A man had 400 hens and sold 75% of them. many did he sell? How many did he have left?

How

11. A man had 300 bu. of corn and sent 66% of it to the mill. How many bushels did he send to the mill?

12. If I should offer you your choice between 75% of 120 marbles and 66% of 120 marbles, which would you choose? Find out if you have chosen the larger number.

13. In a school of 336 pupils, 66% were girls. How many girls were there? How many boys were there?

14. It is 90 miles from New York to Philadelphia. After travelling 66%% of the distance, how far have you then to travel? 15. If a horse costs $120, for what ought I to sell it to gain 20%?

16. I bought a farm for $1600 and in selling it I lost 25%. How much did I lose?