47. Bought goods for $5675.50, and sold them for $7500.31; how much was made by the operation?

48. What is the product of $192.075 by 108.

49. Multiply $47.56 by 16.

50. What cost 9 tons of coal at $5.50 per ton?

51. What will be the cost of 563 bushels of wheat at $2.25 per bushel?

52. If $11.44 be paid for 26 yards of drilling, what is the cost per yard?

53. Divide $355 equally among 25 men, carrying the division to cents.

54. Paid $78 for 12 sheep; how much was that for each ?

55. J. Smith paid $ 255 for 75 sheep. How much was that a head?

56. Divide $497 by 4, carrying the division to cents? 57. Paid $240 for 32 tons of coal. How much was that a ton?

58. Divide $2764 by 24 to mills? Ans. $115.166+.

Here, in the answer, the division not being exact, the sign + is used to show that the division might be carried further.

59. Divide $ 637 among 27 men, to cents.

60. Paid $5.27 for 17. boxes of choice strawberries; what was that a box?

61. How much must be paid for 115 tons of coal at $8.75 a ton?

62. A man bought a horse for $150, and 2 yoke of oxen at $175.50 each. How much did the whole cost him?

63. At 62 cents a bushel, how many bushels of corn can be bought for $31.

Solution.

$31 3100 cents; 3100 ÷ 62 cents = 50, the number of bushels required.

64. Paid $17.10 for coffee at 38 cents a pound. How many pounds did I buy?

65. How many bushels of wheat at $1.05 a bushel can be bought for $71.40?

QUESTIONS.

78. What is United States money? Of this money how many mills are 1 cent; how many cents 1 dime; etc.? How are eagles and dollars expressed? How are dimes and cents expressed?

79. What are coins? What coin is of bronze? What coin is of nickel? What of silver? What of gold?

81. How are cents changed to mills? Dollars to cents? Dollars to mills? Mills to cents? Cents to dollars? Mills to dollars?

REVIEW.

ORAL EXERCISES.

82. 1. How many times 7+ 2 in 72? In 81?

2. How many are 6 times 8

3? 8 times 95?

3. To 6 add 4, subtract 3, multiply by 9, divide by 7. What is the result?

4. From 19 subtract 11, multiply by 10, add 16, divide by 12. What is the result?

5. Multiply 12 by 6, divide by 8, add 5, multiply by 3, subtract 12. What remains?

6. The multiplier is 8, and the product 96. What is the multiplicand?

7. The sum of three numbers is 51, and two of the numbers are 16 and 11. What is the third number.

8. The minuend is 93 and the difference 79. What is the subtrahend?

9. Divide 81 by 9, add 6, multiply by 4, and add 17. What is the result?

10. The integer of the quotient is 7, the remainder 9, and the divisor, 12. What is the dividend?

11. A boy had 49 cents and his father gave him 11. He then spent his money for 4 doves. How much did he give for each?

12. A farmer raised 84 bushels of corn; saving 12 bushels for his own use, he sold 7 bushels to his brother; and sold the rest in equal quantities to 5 persons. How much did he sell each of the 5 persons?

13. If you should sell 10 tons of coal at $6 a ton, how much cloth at $4 a yard could you buy with the money?

14. If 7 barrels of flour cost $56, what will 1 barrel cost? What will 4 barrels cost?

15. If 4 tons of hay cost $48, what will 7 tons cost? 16. If 9 quarts of milk cost 54 cents, what will 7 quarts cost?

17. If 15 yards of cloth cost $75, what will 60 yards cost?

18. When 4 quarts of vinegar can be bought for 28 cents, how many quarts can be bought for 84 cents?

19. If a steamer goes 75 miles in 5 hours, in how many hours can she go 90 miles?

20. Received for 4 bushels of potatoes 28 pounds of pork; how many pounds should I receive for 9 bushels?

21. A and B start together and travel in the same direction along the same road. A goes 20 miles a day and B 28 miles. When B shall be 80 miles ahead of A, how many days will they have travelled?

83. A Parenthesis, (), or Vinculum,, is used to include such numbers as are to be considered together. Thus, (853) x 6, or 8+ 53 x 6, denotes that 8 and 5, less 3, or 10, is to be multiplied by 6.

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

22. Express in words the number denoted by 237321. 23. Express in figures one hundred seventy-nine dollars and seven cents five mills.

24. Add together ninety thousand three hundred forty, one thousand three hundred six, and two.

25. The smaller of two numbers is 569, and their difference is 731. What is the larger number?

26. Jones is worth four thousand twenty-five dollars, and Ford three thousand nine hundred dollars and

eighty-seven cents. How much is Jones worth more than Ford?

27. Show by an example how subtraction is proved by addition.

28. A product is 4680, and one of its two factors is 15. What is the other?

29. Bought goods to the amount of $34.67, paying for them in corn $ 4.21, in wheat $ 9.68, and the rest in money. How much money was paid?

30. What is the value of (3604 + 162) × 3?

31. From (612 + 12) take (316 — 32).

32. Smith's farm is worth thirteen thousand four hundred sixty dollars, his cattle six hundred forty-three dollars fifty cents, and his farming tools two hundred three dollars and eighty-eight cents. How much is the whole worth?