GEORGIA CURRENCY.-Q. What is the currency of Cas lina and Georgia called? A. Georgia currency. Q. How many shillings make a dollar of this currency? Q. What part of a pound is 4 s. 8 d.? 8 d. A. 4 s. 56 d. is £. 56 56 d., and 20s. 240 d.; then, = Jo £. RULE. Q. How do you reduce Georgia currency to federal money? A. Divide by ; that is, multiply by 30, and divide by 7. Q. How do you reduce federal money to the same currency again? A. Multiply by J. Exercises for the Slate. 1. Change 835£. 9 s. to federal money. 835,45£. X 30=2506350÷7=$3580,50, Ans. 2. Change $3580,50 to Georgia currency. $3580,50 X 725063,50÷30=835£. 9 s. Ans. 3. Change to federal money 208£. 17 s. 3 d.-895125; 104£ 8 s. 7 d. 2 qrs.-447562; 252£. 3 s. 1 d. 2 qrs.-1080669. A. $2423,356. 4. Will you change to pounds, shillings, &c., $447,562 ? 104-8-7-1; $895,125?-208-17-3; $1080,669?-252-3-1-1. A. 565£. 8 s. 11 d. 2 qrs. +. ENGLISH OR STERLING MONEY.-Q. How many shi!lings of this money make a dollar? A. 4 s. 6 d. Q. What part of a pound is 4 s. 6 d. ? A. 4 s. 6 d. 54 d., and 20 s. 240 d.; then, $1 is £.££. RULE. Q. How may sterling money be reduced to federa money? A. Divide by; that is, multiply by 40, and divide by 9. Q. How do you change federal money to sterling money? Exercises for the Slate. 1 Change 21£. 7s. 6 d. to federal money. 21£. 7 s. 6d. 21,375 x 40-355,000÷9= $95, Ans. 2. Change $95 to sterling money. A. 21£. 7 s. 6d. 3. Change 21£. 7 s. 6 d. to federal money. A. $95. 4. Change $285 to sterling money. A. 64£. 2s. 6d. CANADA CURRENCY.-Q. What is the currency of Canada and Nova Scotia called? A. Canada currency. Q. How many shillings of this currency make a dollar? A. 5 s. Q. What part of a pound is 5 s.? A. &=. RULE. Q. How do you change this currency into federal money? A. Divide by ; that is, multiply by 4. Q. How do you reduce federal money to Canada currency? A. Multiply by ; that is, divide by 4. Exercises for the Slate. 1. A gentleman, residing in Boston, contracted a debt of 200£. 17 s. in Halifax; how many dollars will pay the debt? 200£. 17 s. 200,85£. X 4 = $803,40, Ans. 2. A, residing in Montreal, sent 300£. Canada currency to B, his correspondent in New York, to purchase 120 barrels of Aur. The flour cost $12,50 per barrel; how much, in Canada currency, is the balance which is due? A. 75£. 3. A merchant in Quebec wrote to his correspondent in Philadelphia, to purchase a large quantity of cotton. His correspondent writes he has purchased 300 bales, each containing 275 pounds, at 104 cents per pound. How many pounds Canada currency must the merchant remit to his agent to meet the purchase price? A. 2114£. 1 s. 3 d. Foreign Coins are estimated in the United States according to the following Pagoda of India, A pound sterling of Great Britain, 1. Reduce 500 livres of France to federal money. $ 1,84. $,50. $ 4,44 $ 4,10. 1 livre = $,18); then, 500 × 184 = $92,50, Ans 2. Reduce $92,50 to livres of France. A. 500 livres. 3. Reduce 5000 1:ancs to federal money. A. $937,50. 4. Reduce 12500 florins to federal money. Questions on the foregoing. 1. How many are 40, 5, and 9, added together? How many 100+19+9? How many 400+50+25+9? How many 500+100+80+20? How many 89+9+ 8+6? 2. How many are 6 times 50? 10 X 100? 10 X 1000? 20 X 60? 30 X 40? 3. What number added to 20 will make 30? Will make 40? Will make 39 Will make 89? 4. What number multiplied by 4 will make 8? Will make 40? Will make 400? 600? 1000? 5. What number divided by 8 will make 2? Will make 6? Will make 10? 6. If the minuend be 40, and the subtrahend 21, what will be the remainder? 7. If the remainder be 40, and the subtrahend 20, what will be the minuend? 8. If the divisor be 6, and the quotient 8, what will the dividend be? 9. If the quotient be 10, and the dividend 120, what will the divisor be? 10. If the product of two numbers be 84, and the multi plicand 7, what will the multiplier be? 11. What will 120 yards of cloth cost, at 50 cents a yard? (Divide by the aliquot part, found in ¶ XXVIII.) At 33} cents? At 25 cents? At 20 cents? At 163 cents? 12 cents? At 10 cents? At 5 cents? At 12. How many times will a little wheel, 6 inches in cir cumference, turn round in going 1 foot, or 12 inches? In going 3 feet, or 36 inches? In going 5 feet? 12 feet? How many times in going across the street, allowing it to be 3 rods, 3 yards, and 1 foot, or 660 inches? 13. What must be the circumference of a wheel that turus round twice in going 2 feet, or 24 inches? 14. How many shillings in 8 d. 4-6 d. + 10 d.? 15. How much does 19 s. 6 d. lack of 1£.? 16. How many pounds are 2 times 30 s.? 4+10 s.? 17. Divide 15 s. by 2. 18. Reduce to its lowest terms. 50 19. Reduce, 12, fos, foo, to their lowest terms. 20. What fraction can you use for 14, 16, 12, &, ? 21. What part of a month is 1 day? A. 3. Is 2 days? 4.1. Is 5 days? A. Is 7 days? A. Jo Is 8 days? A. . Is 9 days? A. 15 days? A. 8. Is 20 days? A. 22. How much is t. of? of?of fo. Is of 24. How many times is 2 contained in? How much is of? ? 25. How many times 2 in? (To divide a fraction, we multip.y the denominator, or divide the numerator.) 2 in 3 in? 3 in 17? 4 in 26. How much is of of a month? of of a month? of a month divided by 2 is how much? How much is af 38 of a month? 27. James has of a dollar, Rufus, and Thomas the remainder of the dollar; what is Thomas's part? 28. William had of a ticket, Henry 4, and James; what part of a ticket did they all own? (Find how many 8ths each had first.) 29. What kind of fractions are the following, viz. 2, 1, 51, 7}, 2§, } of †? 30. Reduce to a decimal. 31. What decimal is equal to ? ? 6 9 14 ? 32. James has 2 of a ticket, William,5, Thomas 2, and Harry the remainder; how much does Harry have? 33. What is the amount of,3+,4+,1 ? 34. Multiply,6 by,5. 35. How much is ,5 of,5? Exercises for the Slate. 1. 268587+8+60= A. 2840. - 2689 == A. 3786854. 2. 3789543 3. 7236845 X 1732 = 4. 893645÷ 201= 5 8973487542 3687245 6. 7 is = A. 12534215540. A. 444528. A. 2433139117. of what number? A. 490. 7. 26 is of what number? A. 104. 8. 20£. 13 s. 4 d. +100£. 15 s. 6 d. +10 d. +15s.+1 s. 6d + 1 d. + 13 d. A. 122£. 6 s. 4 d. 1 qr. 9. From 1£. 15 s. take 19 s. 3 d. A. 15 s. 11 d. 1 qr. 16. A man bought 4 hogsheads of molasses: the first con tained 763 gallons; the second 63 gallons; the third 793 gallops, and the fourth 59 gallons. How many gallons in the whole (Reduce the fractional parts to a common denomina tor before you proceed to add.) .. 279. 17. 3700130 +10%+6+37,5+1008000 18. What is the value of ,990625 of a pound? = A. 3744,200005. A. 19 s. 9 d. 3 qrs. 19. From 29 years, 5 mo. 3 days, take 23 hours 40 minutes A. 29 years, 5 mo. 2 days, 0 hours, 20 minutes. |