Bril 2 × 17. The freight charge between two places is 58 cents per hundred pounds. What is the charge for shipping 20 barrels of oil, each weighing 310 pounds? 18. A Kansas farmer bought 80 acres of cheap land for $240. Oil being found on his farm, he sold his land for $60,000. What was his profit? How much did the land cost per acre? For how much was it sold per acre? +19. A grocer bought 210 pounds of tea for $100.80, and sold the lot for $117.60. What was the gain per pound? 20. At another time he bought 87 pounds for $46.11. He sold this at a gain of 6 cents a pound. How much did he receive for the lot? 21. One hundred fifty pounds of butter cost $49.50. It was sold at 38 cents a pound. What was the gain? X22. A field 120 rods by 40 rods produced 28₫ bushels of wheat to the acre. What was the crop worth at 92 23. A dealer mixed 6 pounds of coffee costing 24 cents a pound and 12 pounds costing 30 cents a pound. was the value of one pound of the mixture? 2 What 24. Mr. Burns sold to Mr. Dean 36 acres of land at $56. an acre. Mr. Dean gave in payment $639 in money and a city house lot. What was the value of the house lot? 25. Mr. Cushing raised 440 bushels of potatoes. Sixty. five bushels were unmarketable. He sold the rest at 75 cents a bushel. How much did he receive? 26. What is the gain on 36 bunches of bananas bought at $1.37 each and sold at $1.95 each? X 27. A merchant bought eggs at 32 cents a dozen and sold them at 40 cents a dozen. His gain was $2.16. How many dozen did he buy and sell? Х 28. A merchant made $9.88 by buying roasting pans at 37 cents each and selling at 50 cents each. How many did he buy and sell? 29 Bronze is composed of 18 parts copper, 1 part tin, 1 part zinc. (1) What per cent of each metal is used? (2) How many pounds of each metal in a bronze statue weighing 2000 pounds? 30. In 3.2 hours a man walks 12.32 miles. How far does he walk in one hour? 31. If a man can walk 3.2 miles in one hour, how many miles can he walk in 12.32 hours? 32. If you ride your wheel for an hour at the rate of 12.32 miles per hour, how many miles have you to ride ' after going 3.2 miles? 33. John rode his wheel 12.32 miles on Tuesday and 3.2 miles on Wednesday. How far did he ride on both days? 34. On Thursday he rode 12.32 3.2 miles more than on Thursday. miles, and on Friday How far did he ride 35. What per cent of the cost is the gain when flour is bought for $6 a barrel and sold for $7 a barrel? 36. What is the gain per cent in buying flour at $6.00 a barrel and selling at $7.50 a barrel? 37. If a man sells of his farm of 175 acres, how many 38. What is the greatest number that will divide all of these numbers, 108, 144, and 168? to 39. A workman receives $15.75 per week. He spends $3.25 for rent, $3.15 for groceries, $3.70 for provisions, $2.37 for clothing, $0.63 for luxuries, and deposits $2 in the bank. How much has he left? 40. At $75 per acre, what is the value of a lot of land 65 rods by 48 rods? a 41. Four boys go camping for a week. They pay 50¢ a day for their tent, $1.60 a day for their living, 50¢ day for their boat, and each pays 75 for car fare. How much did each pay for his outing? 42. Mr. Arthur R. Bean rents a house to Mr. Charles L. Roper for $18 a month. Make out a receipt for rent received for the month of July, 1912. 43. On April 10, 1911, Mrs. A. M. Baker buys the following goods from Gardner and Bassett: 31 yd. lawn at 20¢ a yard, 3 yd. table damask at $1.25 a yard, and 12 doz. towels at 121 each. Make out her bill. 44. The stripes of the flag on the schoolhouse are 22 inches wide. What is the width of the flag? 45. A piece of cardboard 12 in. square is cut into pieces 3 in. by 11⁄2 in. How many? 46. 46. A house lot is 68 ft. long and as wide. What is its perimeter ? 47. A club bought 20 baseballs, paying at the rate of $15 a dozen. How much? 48. What are the prime factors of 168? 49. Change to lowest terms. CROPS RAISED BY A STATE SCHOOL Written A state school raised the following crops on its farm. Find the value of each crop at the given rate. (Keep PART II ADVANCED ARITHMETIC NOTATION AND NUMERATION 1. In our system of writing numbers, how many units of one order are required to make one unit of the next higher order? 2. What name is given to such a system of notation? 3. How many places are required to write ten in figures? One thousand? One million ? Using the symbols 4, 6, 8, 3, 2, write : 4. The largest number possible. Read it. 5. The smallest number possible. Read it. Separate into groups, read aloud, and then write in 17. 6007 14. 6073 15. 600708 16. 70007 18. 4061295 19. 9007005 20. 123456789 21. 870642083 Read: 22. The quantity of peanuts exported from the United States in one year was: to Oceania, 789 pounds; to Asia, 1100 pounds; to Africa, 66,443 pounds; to South America, 334,992; to Europe, 1,497,625 pounds; to North America, 3,600,158 pounds. |