22. Take 1 bundle of one hundred splints, 4 bundles of 10 splints each, and 5 single splints. How many have you in all? Give your teacher 27 of the splints. Compare what you did with the following solution: 3 15 145 27 118, Remainder. 23. Annie had 2 bundles of one hundred splints each. She gave Fred 78. How many had she left? 9 1 10 10 200 78 122 Annie took 1 bundle of one hundred, untied it, and found there were 10 tens in it. She left 9 of the tens a moment and untied 1 bundle of 10, finding 10 ones in it. Of these she gave 8 to Fred, and had 2 left. Then taking up the 9 tens, she gave 7 tens to Fred, and had 2 tens left, and besides these the 1 bundle of one hundred. She had, therefore, 122 left. Find the difference between the following, and supply the numbers omitted in minuend, subtrahend, or remainder : REVIEW EXERCISES. ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION. 48. 1. From a tank containing 935 gallons of water, 648 gallons were drawn off, after which 247 gallons ran in. How many gallons were there then in the tank? 2. Two trains start from Chicago. One goes east 298 miles, and the other west 247 miles. How far apart are they? 3. A man purchased 8983 bricks, but used only 5362. How many had he left? 4. A man paid $465 for a carriage. He spent $57 for repairs on it, and sold it for $500. Did he gain or lose, and how much? 5. From the sum of 763 and 297 subtract their differ ence. 6. A horse and cow together cost $276. If the cow cost $81, what was the cost of the horse? 7. Two trains start from cities 582 miles apart. If they travel towards each other, one 123 miles and the other 238 miles, how far apart are they? 8. Columbus discovered America in 1492. How many years have passed since then? 9. A merchant bought 30 pieces of cloth, containing in all 979 yards. He afterwards sold all but 143 yards. How many yards did he sell? 10. The cost of building a house was $3972, and of furnishing it $1597. What was the entire cost? How much more did it cost to build it than to furnish it? 11. Cotton was first planted in the United States about 1759. How long ago was that? 12. Ralph threw a ball 37 feet, and Jamie threw his 19 feet farther than Ralph. How many feet must Jamie go to pick up his ball and return? 13. A man owned a horse that cost $852, and a carriage that cost $437. He was obliged to sell them both for $1000. How much money did he lose by the sale? 14. My neighbor has in his orchard 264 pear trees, which is 187 less than the number of his apple trees. How many apple trees has he? How many trees has he in all ? 15. A farmer having 425 bushels of wheat, sold 127 bushels to one person, and 264 bushels to another. How many bushels had he left? 16. $24.03+$17.75+$19.63+$10+$18.09+$7.99= ? 17. $10 ($2.35+ $3.78 +$1) = ? 18. Mr. Jones earned during July $172. He paid a bill for $28 to the grocer, $19 to the butcher, and $36 for rent. How much of the money remained? 19. $4700 ($462 + $2180) = ? $3900 ($2614+ $854.50) = ? 20. A man gave to his son $575; to his daughter, $468; and to his nephew, $249 less than to his daughter. How much did he give to all? 21. Two men, who are 425 miles apart, travel towards each other, one 36 miles, the other 58 miles a day. How far apart will they be at the end of two days? 22. If the same men travel away from each other, how far apart will they be at the end of two days? 23. In a certain school there are 692 pupils. In the primary grade there are 325; in the intermediate grade, 259; and the remainder are in the grammar grade. How many are in the grammar grade? 24. A man bought a lot of land for $1860, and built upon it a house costing $7584. If he sold the property for $10,000, how much did he make? 25. If I buy at a grocery store sugar for 78 cents, cheese for 39 cents, and nuts for 25 cents, giving in payment a $2 bill, how much change should I receive? 26. From 946 subtract 486; from the result subtract 284; to this add 398; and from this answer subtract 199. 27. Lena's book has 482 pages. If she reads 168 pages in the morning, and 89 pages in the afternoon, how many more pages has she to read? 28. Bert and Harry had each $1.40. Bert earned 28% more, and Harry spent 72¢ of his How much more has Bert than Harry? money. 29. In a school there were 278 girls and 215 boys. If 29 girls and 34 boys leave, how many pupils will there then be attending the school? 30. Into a bin that holds 825 bushels, I put 272 bushels of corn, and afterwards 346 bushels more. How many more bushels of corn will it hold? 31. If I buy a hat for $6.75 and give in payment a $10 bill, what change should I receive? 32. The entire expenses of a journey made by a family were $391.86. The fare on the railroads was $192.15, carriage hire was $37.25, fare on the steamers amounted to $61.35, and the rest was paid for board. What did the board cost? 33. A merchant failed in business, owing debts to the amount of $1837.85. His goods on hand were worth $894.50, and there was due him from persons who had bought goods from him, $591.75. How much more did he owe than he could pay? 34. $68.95+ $81.36 - $29.15 - $42.36+ $25.84 =? 35. $76.37+ $34.93 + $8.83 $16.25 - $13.24 = ? 36. $59.23+ $18.76 - $32.17+ $7.08 - $41.25 =? 37. $32.94 $16.23 + $13.81 - $20.06+ $24.53 = ? 38. $68.92+ $23.75 - $15.27 39. $37.50 - $18.24+ $60.08 $6.35 + $15.18=? $18.32 $16.29 = ? +$59.38 $62.81 40. $51.23 + $67. MILNE'S INT. AR. -3 $4.85 = ? 41. $24.69+$41.80 $23+ $27.42 - $8+ $15=? |
