Note. If one or more ciphers be on the right of the divifor, omit them in the operation, feparating from the right of the dividend as many figures, which annex to the remainder. Application. 10210 6865 12749 I A person intending to go a journey of 3264 miles, would perform it in 136 days, how many miles must he travel each day? answer 24. 2 Several boys went to gather nuts, and collected 4275, which when shared among them, each had 855; how many boys were in company? 3 If the expense of erecting a bridge be defrayed equally by 186 persons; how much quota of each? answer 5. 50221. to be must be the answer 271. is 1763, the answer 4785 multiplied by 7969, answer 234 4 The quotient of an operation in division dividend 8435955; query the divisor? 5 What number is that, which being the product will be 1864746? 6 Being desirous to plant 2072 apple trees in 14 rows, how many will be in each row? answer 148 7 In 670320 yards, how many pieces and bales, allowing 35 yards in each piece, and 56 pieces in each bale ? answer 19152 pieces, 342 bales. 8 If a cistern containing 15072 gallons be emptied in 4 hours, by 48 equal vents; what quantity is discharged by either adjutage in that time? also how much ting the velocity of the fluid to be uniform ? per hour, admit answer 314 gallons, at the rate of 78 per hour. 9 Divide 42904 acres of land into 3 346 equal parts. facit 124 10 If 45000 dollars be divided among 25 persons; how many is that for each? answer 1800 11 Purchased 256 bundles of hemp, weighing 46080lb. how much is in a bundle? answer 180 lb. TABLE. Note. The Federal standard, for gold and silver, is 11 parts fine and 1 part alloy. Federal money, or money of the United States, may be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, as integers or whole numbers, only separating the different denominations with a point, as fifty-nine eagles, five dollars, nine dimes, five cents, in figures 59,5,9,5: but as dollars and cents are the only denominations commonly used in accounts, the points after the eagles and dimes are omitted, as 595,95, five hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-five cents. Dollars are reduced to cents, by multiplying the number of dollars by 100, or, which is the same thing, by adding two ciphers to the right hand of the number of dollars, as, In 1 dollar how many cents ? answer 100 answer 600 answer 1000 Cents are brought into dollars by dividing by 100, or separating the two last figures to the right hand by a point, which will be cents, and those to the left will be dollars, as, In 225 cents, how many dollars and cents 2 answer 2,25 In 506 cents, how many dollars and cents? answer 5,06 In 1250 cents, how many dollars and cents? answer 12,50 Note. In writing down any number of cents less than 10, a cipher must be prefixed in the place of dimes. ADDITION. 1 Laid out at sundry times, viz. at one time 100 dollars, at another 75 cents, at a third 4 dollars 7 mills, and lastly, 19 dollars 4 cents; query the whole expenditure ? answer 123D. 797m. 2 How much Federal money equals 1 English guinea, 2 French crowns, and 3 Spanish pistoles? answer 18D. 186m. 3 Add 250 eagles, 9 dollars, 8 dimes, 6 cents and 5 mills together. facit 2509,8,6,5 4 Suppose I owe A 462 dollars 50 cents; B 365 dollars 19 cents; C 23 dollars 64 cents; D 86 dollars 92 cents; E 35 dollars 74 cents; and F 84 dollars 33 cents; how much do I owe altogether? answer 1058,32 5 Bought a horse for 125 dollars, chair 120 dollars, harness 26 dollars 45 cents, saddle 16 dollars 43 cents, bridle 4 dollars 16 cents, what is the amount of the whole? answer 292,04 6 A 6 A person deposited at bank, 1055 dollars in notes; 260 dollars in gold; 3650 dollars in silver, and 250 cents; how much is the amount ?. SUBTRACTION. answer 4967,50 1 A owed Z 43 dollars 75 cents, and paid him on account 24 dollars 33 cents, how much remains unpaid? ans. 19,42 2 K having deposited 4967 dollars 50 cents in bank, drew for 3765 dollars 14 cents; what sum has he left? answer 1202,36 3 Suppose X had 1965 dollars 44 cents, belonging to Y of New-York, and Y. has drawn on him at one time for 96 eagles, afterwards for 550 dollars 33 cents, and again for 69 dollars 29 cents, how much will remain, after paying the three drafts ? answer 385/82 4 Borrowed 500 dollars 44 cents, paid 204 dollars 56 cents, how much remains due ? answer 295 88. |