22 When does the drawee become responsible for its payment? 23 If the drawee does not accept, what must the holder do? 24 What is such notice called? 25 By whom is it made? 26 If the parties to the bill are not notified, what is the consequence? 27 If the drawee accepts the bill, but fails to pay, what must be done? 28 If the bill is not protested, what will be the consequence? 29 What do you understand by the intrinsic par of exchange? 30 What is the intrinsic value of the English sovereign? 31 What is the commercial par of exchange? value of the English 32 sovereign? 66 66 33 How does it differ, and what causes it to differ from the intrinsic and commercial par? 34 When is the price of a foreign bill above, and when below commercial par? 45 To whom is a favorable state of exchange advantageous? 36 To whom is a favorable state of exchange injurious? 37 What is the exchange value of the pound sterling? 38 What are inland bills? 39 In what currency are the exchanges between this country and England made? 40 I have $947.86 and wish to remit to London, £364 18s. 8d., exchange being at 81 per cent.: how much additional money will be necessary? Art. 289, Ex. 5. 41 In what currency are the exchanges conducted with France? 42 What is a centime? 43 44 66 66 the value of a franc? meant when exchange on Paris is quoted at 5 francs 40 centimes? P. 290. 48 When there is but one intervening currency, what is exchange called? 49 What principle is involved in the arbitration of exchange? 50 What is the chain rule? P. 292. 51 A merchant wishes to remit $4488.40 from New York to London, and the exchange is at a premium of 10 per cent. He finds that he can remit to Paris at 5 francs 15 centimes to the dollar, and to Hamburg at 35 cents per marc banco. Now the exchange between Paris and London is 25 francs 80 centimes for one pound sterling, and between Hamburg and London 13 marcs banco for one pound sterling. How had he better remit? Art. 294, Ex. 1. GENERAL AVERAGE. 1 What does the term average signify? P. 295. 2 How many kinds of average are there? 3 What are small charges called? 4 Under what circumstances will a general average take place? 5 How is the freight valued? 6 How much is charged on account of seamen's wages? 7 How is the cargo valued? 8 Does the part lost bear its part of the loss? 9 How is the ship valued? 10 When parts of the ship are lost, how are they compensated for? TONNAGE OF VESSELS. 1 What is the tonnage of a vessel? P. 298. 2 What are the custom-house charges on the different classes of vessels trading with foreign countries? 3 To what charges are coasters subject? 4 What is the government rule for finding the tonnage? 5 What is the ship-builders' rule for finding the tonnage? 6 What is the government tonnage of a single decker whose length is 75 ft., breadth 20 ft. and depth 17 ft.? Art. 299, Ex. 1. 7 What is the carpenters' tonnage of a doubledecker, its length being 125 ft., breadth 25 ft. 6 in., depth of hold 34 ft. and distance between decks 8 feet? Art. 299, Ex. 5. 4 What is the exponent of a power? How written? 5 What is involution? 6 How many things are connected with every power? 7 How do you find the power of a number? : 8 What is the value of (3.205)2? Art. 300, Ex. 42. EVOLUTION. 1 What is evolution? P. 301. 2 3 66 66 the square root of a number? 4 How do you denote the square root of a number? 5 How do you denote the cube root of a number? 6 What is a perfect square? 7 How many perfect squares between 1 and 100? 8 How do the roots of a number less than 100 compare with 10? 9 Into what parts may every number be divided? 10 When so decomposed, what is its square equal to ? 11 Give the rule for extracting the square root? 12 What is the value of √425104? Art. 305, Ex. 1. 13 How do you extract the square root of a decimal number? 14 What is the square root of .6? 15 How do you extract the square root of a common fraction? 16 What is the value of 225 √2304 ? APPLICATIONS IN SQUARE ROOT. 1 What is a triangle? P. 307. 4 Which side of a triangle is the hypothenuse? 5 In a right angled triangle what is the square on the hypothenuse equal to ? 6 How do you find the hypothenuse when you know the base and perpendicular? 7 What is the hypothenuse of a triangle whose base is 30 ft. and perpendicular 40 ft.? Art. 310, Ex. 1. 8 When you know the hypothenuse and one side, how do you find the other? 9 In a square piece of pavement there are 48841 stones of equal size, one foot square: what is the length of one side of the pavement? Art. 311, Ex. 2. |