MEASURES REVIEW OF LIQUID MEASURE ORAL EXERCISE 1. How many pints in a quart? 2. How many quarts in a gallon? In 10 gal.? In 20 gal.? In 100 gal.? 3. How many pints in a gallon? In 5 gal.? In 25 gal.? In 50 gal.? 4. At 4 ct. a pint, what will 5 qts. of milk cost? 5. How much must I pay for a gallon of molasses which sells at 10 ct. a pint? 6. How many quarts are there in 25 pts.? 7. When the price of vinegar is 24 ct. a gallon, how much will 3 pts. cost? 8. Cream costing 20 ct. a pint, what must I pay for a gill? (A gill is one fourth of a pint.) 4 gills 1 pint = 9. How many small pitchers of cream, each holding one gill, may be filled from a quart measure of cream? 10. How many quarts of cream are consumed daily by 200 people at a hotel, if each uses a gill of cream every day? 201 WRITTEN EXERCISE A standard barrel contains 31 gallons. 1. How many gallons of water may be kept in a cistern whose capacity is 60 bbl.? 2. How much water will run out of a faucet in an hour's time, if the water runs at the rate of 3 pts. a minute? 3. A grocer bought a barrel of vinegar for $3.50, and sold the vinegar for 10 ct. a quart. How much did he gain? 4. A milkman sells 188 quarts of milk at 8 ct. a quart and 60 pints of cream at 20 ct. a pint every day. How much money does he take in daily? 5. During the month of March, the milkman delivered to one customer 3 qts. of milk and a half pint of cream every day. At the same prices, what was the amount of the bill for the month? REVIEW OF DRY MEASURE AND MEASURE OF WEIGHT ORAL EXERCISE 1. How many quarts in a peck? In 5 pk.? In 25 pk.? In 100 pk.? 2. How many pecks in a bushel? In 10 bu.? In 25 bu.? In 100 bn.? 3. How many quarts in a bushel? In 3 bu.? In 10 bu.? 4. If a bushel of wheat weighs 60 lb., how much will 6 bu. weigh? 5. At 5 ct. a quart, what will a peck of potatoes cost? 6. At 10 ct. a quart, what will a half peck of apples cost? 7. How many ounces in a pound? In 20 lb.? In 50 lb.? In 100 lb.? 8. At 4 ct. an ounce, what will a half pound of pepper cost? 9. What will 2 oz. of cinnamon cost at 60 ct. a pound? 10. How many 4-oz. tins of mustard may be filled from a box holding 10 lb.? 2000 pounds = 1 ton (T.) Coal, hay, and other merchandise which is sold in large lots, are sold by weight estimated in tons and hundredweight. A hundredweight is only another name for 100 pounds. There are 20 hundredweight in a ton. WRITTEN EXERCISE 1. A farmer sold 5 T. of hay at 80 ct. a hundredweight. How much money did he receive for the hay? 2. How many bushels of wheat are there in a cargo weighing 40 T., computing 60 lb. to the bushel? 3. How many 5-lb. bags of salt may be filled from a bin holding a ton of salt? 4. A grocer bought 20 bu. of potatoes at 75 ct. a bushel, and sold them at 5 ct. a quart. How much did he gain? 5. At 12 ct. a pound, what is the value of a bale of cotton? (A bale of cotton weighs 500 lb.) REVIEW OF MEASURE OF TIME ORAL EXERCISE 1. How many seconds in 10 min.? In 30 min. ? In an hour? 2. How many minutes in 4 hr.? In day? In 10 hr.? 3. How many days in 48 hr.? In 72 hr.? In 9 wk.? 4. A watch ticks twice a second. How many times does it tick in a minute? 5. A fog bell strikes every 3 minutes. How many times does it strike in an hour? 6. How many lesson periods 20 min. long are there between 1 P.M. and 3 P.M.? WRITTEN EXERCISE 1. A new moon appears about every four weeks. How many times during a year is there a new moon? 2. A clerk earns $18 a week. What is his annual salary? 3. The clerk spends $9 a week for board, $ 10 a month for clothing, and $1 a day for other expenses. What is his annual expenditure? How much does he save? 4. How many days elapse between the 29th day of June and the 8th day of September? 5. Deducting the 4 Sundays in the month of April, 1909, calculate a man's wages for the month at the rate of $ 31 a day. 6. A lady spent $1000 in traveling during the months of July, August, and September. What was the average daily expenditure? 7. A railroad carried 756,439 passengers during the month of February, 1909. What was the average number carried daily? 8. A train starts at a quarter to two and arrives at its destination at half past three. Its speed was at the rate of 40 mi. an hour. How far did it travel? 9. How many minutes elapse between 10.30 P.M. and 2.15 A.M.? |