(c) The number of days saved by the canal route. Find this in two ways. 17. The estimated cost of the canal is $375,000,000. What is the average cost per mile? 18. The Suez canal is a sea-level canal 90 miles long and cost $100,000,000. Find the average cost per mile. 19. The cost of the Panama canal is how much more per mile than the cost of the Suez canal per mile? AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT 1. How many ounces in 1 pound? 2. How many pounds in an ordinary ton? 3. Some articles are sold by the hundredweight (cwt.). How many hundredweight make 1 ton? 4. A long ton contains 240 pounds more than the or dinary ton. How many pounds make a long ton? In problem work always use the ordinary ton unless otherwise directed. 5. Write the table of Avoirdupois weight. 6. What is the ratio of a pound to a hundredweight? A hundredweight to a ton? A hundredweight to a long ton? An ordinary ton to a long ton? 7. At 32 cents a pound, how much will 1 pound 14 ounces of butter cost? 8. When 50 pounds of ice are sold for 15 cents, what is the rate per ton? 9. How many pound packages can be put up from 21 hundredweight of cereal? 10. When a bushel of oats (32 pounds) costs 50 cents, how much will a ton cost? 11. An ice dealer pays 6 cents per hundredweight for his ice. At what rate per hundredweight must he retail it to make $1.50 per ton if the expense of handling is $1.30 per ton? 12. Find the cost of 3800 pounds of coal at $6.50 per ton. 13. Find the cost of 2800 pounds of fertilizer at $36 per ton, and 1600 pounds at $37.50 per ton. 14. A dealer in farm supplies bought 75 long tons of fertilizer and sold it by the ordinary ton. How many tons did he sell? 15. A shipment of wheat weighed 2-4,000 pounds. How many ordinary tons? How many long tons? 16. Mr. Evans sold the following quantities of shorts: of a ton, 25 hundredweight, 1 tons, 1500 pounds, 1200 pounds. How many tons? 17. Out of a consignment of 2 tons of potatoes, 32 hundredweight were sold. What part of a ton was left? 18. Find the cost of 2780 pounds of oat straw at 85 cents per hundredweight. 19. Mr. Wheeler paid $35 for 2 tons of shorts. What was the price per hundredweight? 20. Rye meal is 2.25 cents per pound. Find the cost of 3.6 hundredweight. 21. $36.45 was paid for oats at 45 cents a bushel Find the weight, reckoning 32 pounds to a bushel. 22. Mr. Norcross sold 792 pounds of barley, 48 pounds to the bushel, at 90 cents a bushel. Find how much he received for it. 23. The equipment of a 25-acre hay farm in South Carolina, as given in a report by the Department of Agriculture, was: 1 Georgia plow stock with attachments, $5; 1 smoothing harrow, $10; 1 weeder, $7; 1 curved-tooth and slicing harrow, $10; 1 mower, $35; 1 hayrake, $15; 1 wagon, $30; 1 hay press, $90; 1 wooden roller, $7.50. Total cost? 24. The expenses and receipts of this farm for one year: One man at $35 per month. EXPENSES One horse, cost of keeping at $8.50 per month Interest on 25 acres of land, valued at $ 100 per acre, at 8% Total expense RECEIPTS 7 acres crimson clover hay, 3500 pounds per acre, at $1.25 per hundredweight . 18 acres oat hay, 3000 pounds per acre, at $25 per ton 22 acres cowpea hay, 1 tons per acre, at $1.25 per hundredweight. 3 acres corn, 663 bushels per acre, at 75 cents per bushel 3 acres corn stover, 4000 pounds per acre, at $15 per ton Find (1) the total expense; (2) the total income; (3) the net income. LIQUID MEASURE 1. Repeat the table of liquid measure. 2. How many pints in 1 gallon? 1 gallon 1 quart? 1 gallon 1 quart 1 pint? 7 3. How many quarts in 6 gallons? pints? How many 4. How many gallons and quarts of vinegar in a 5gallon jug one half full? 5. How many half-pint bottles can be filled from 21 quarts of cream? 6. Four half-pint bottles of cream cost 1 dollar. milkman allows 10 cents for each bottle returned. is paid a quart for cream ? 7. Mrs. Mason bought a gallon of maple sirup. sold 2 quarts 1 pint to a neighbor. gallon did she sell? The She What part of the 8. If Mrs. Mason sold the sirup at cost, $1.20 per gallon, how much did she receive for what she sold? 9. What is the capacity in gallons of a tank 24 inches long, 11 inches wide, and 14 inches deep? 24 x 11 x 14 24 × 11 × 14 represents what? 24 x 11 x 14 represents what? Find the capacity in gallons of tanks of these di 35 20. A tin dish 11 inches long, 7 inches wide, and 3 inches deep holds how many gallons? How many if twice as long? If twice as long and twice as wide? If twice as long, twice as wide, and twice as deep? 21. A tank 28 inches long, 22 inches wide, and 18 inches deep is full of water. How many gallons? 22. How many gallon jugs can be filled from a tark 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 5 feet deep? 23. A hot-water tank on the back of a stove is 2 feet 4 inches long, 1 foot 2 inches wide, and 11 inches deep. How many gallons does it hold? ( 24. A copper boiler covers 168 square inches on the top of a stove. It stands 22 inches high. What is its capacity in gallons? f 25. How many times will you have to fill and empty a gallon dipper with water to fill a tank 1 foot 3 inches long, 1 foot 2 inches wide, and 11 inches deep? 26. A watering trough is 2 feet 6 inches long, 2 feet 4 inches wide, and 1 foot 10 inches deep. gallons of water will it hold? How many 27. The capacity of an oil tank is 252 cubic feet. What is its capacity in barrels of 42 gallons each? DRY MEASURE 1. Repeat the table of dry measure. Oral 2. A quart is what part of a peck? A peck of a bushel? A quart of a bushel? 7695 |