Express in figures numbers composed of: 0 thousands 6 hundreds 7 tens and 4 ones. 30 XXX 40. TABLE OF ROMAN NOTATION. 80 90 100 C 40 50 60 When a letter is repeated, its value is repeated. When a letter is placed after one of greater value, its value is added; when placed before, its value is subtracted from the greater. Express the following numbers by figures: 42. MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS. 1. John had 11 quarts of nuts and sold 8 pints; many had he left? how 2. A girl sold 3 quarts of berries each day for 10 days; how many pecks did she sell? 3. A druggist has 7 gal. 2 qt. of kerosene. How long will it last him if he sells 1 quart each day? 4. A carpenter bought a piece of wood 4 ft. 6 in. long, at 8 cents a foot; what did the wood cost him? 5. How many sashes, each 3 yd. 1 ft. long, can be cut from 10 yd. of silk? 6. How many pint bottles will it take to hold 3 gallons of ammonia? 7. If you pick 4 pecks of berries a day, and I pick 2 pecks, in how many days will we pick 6 bushels? 8. A merchant living 18 miles out of Chicago, goes to the city every morning and returns in the evening; how many miles does he travel in 4 days? 9. A shoe merchant sold four dozen pairs of shoes for $192, this is $24 more than they cost him; what did they cost? 10. Holt & Co. sold 620 pairs of gloves this month, which is 20 pairs less than they sold last month; how many pairs were sold last month? 132=? 233 = ? 7. 9131-322=? 13. 2121-312=? 19. 5012- 223=? 8. 4011-303=? 14. 4118-223-? 20. 46109. 5210-223=? 15. 5102-213=? 21. 7051 10. 3101-222=? 16. 6110-123=? 22. 6311 11. 5119-223=? 17. 8112-213-? 23. 5012 12. 3122-123=? 18. 7231-322=? 24. 6300 — 1311 233 = ? 213=? :? 45. MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS. 1. James has 9 cents, John three times as many less 6; how many has John? How How many have both? 2. One day a man traveled 25 miles by railroad, 34 miles by steamboat, and 19 miles by stage, and returned 18 miles; how far is he from home? 3. I bought 4 yards of silk at $2 a yard, 2 shawls at $10 each, and some cashmere for $10; how much change ought I to receive from 4 tendollar bills? 4. A grocer paid $165 for 30 barrels of flour, $50 for 100 barrels of potatoes, and $45 for 15 barrels of apples; how much did he pay for all? 5. A boy who had 53 marbles loaned 20, and afterwards borrowed 9 more; how many marbles had he then? 6. A boy paid $20 for a team of goats, $8 for his carriage, and $4 for harness; he sold them for less than they cost him; for how much did he sell them? 7. I bought 3 yards of cloth at $7 a yard for a coat; the buttons and cord cost $2, the making of it $6; for how much must I sell it to gain $5.50 ? 8. A pole is 40 feet long. If of it is in the ground, of it in the water, and the rest in the air, how many feet in the air? 9. A man gave a carriage and $100 in money for a lot worth $400; what was the value of the carriage? 10. Some children returned from the lake with a basket of shells; after giving half of them away they had 95 left; how many had they at first? 11. A party of school children went to Fairview Park: $1.75 is 50 cents less than they paid for car fare; how much did they pay ? 12. John bought a pack of shingles, and after mending the roof had 75 left; if he used 175, how many did the pack contain at first? 13. A farmer having $157 paid one half of his money for a horse, and one half the remainder for a cow; how much did each animal cost, and how much money had he left? |