Eight hours per day, five hours on Saturday, to count day's work. Half pay when out sick or disabled.

money necessary to pay off help.

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PAY ROLL PROBLEM

Find amount of

In the above pay roll report 10 hours is to count a day. To avoid fractions in computation, multiply the number of hours by the price and divide by the number of hours counted as a day's work. When full time has been made multiply the number of days by the daily pay. Find amount of money necessary to pay off help.

REVIEW PROBLEMS

146. 1. A merchant owes to one man $146.25, to another $38.62, to another $367.80, to another $16.40, and to another $54.30. What amount does he owe?

2. What will be the cost of 56 barrels of flour at $7.25 per barrel?

3. If 16.15 tons of railroad iron cost $730.783, what will one ton cost?

4. I owe A $267.35, B $145.39, and C as much as A and B and $16 more. How much do I owe to all?

5. Jones collected $1624, and Davis collected .65 of that amount. How much did they both collect?

6. A clerk earns $50 a month. He spends $23.50 for his

board and $8.15 for other expenses. How much will he save in

one year?

7. A farmer sold 132.51 bushels of corn for $44.17. How much did he receive per bushel?

8. A lady went shopping with $50. She bought a cloak for $32, 3 yards of silk at $2.12 a yard, 5 yards of cambric at $.15 a yard and 3 dozen buttons at $.18. How much money had she remaining?

9. Bought a horse for $165, a yoke of oxen for $95, 4 cows at $32 each, and sold them all for $400. How much did I gain or lose by the transaction?

10. A man bought 43 tons of hay for $48.304. How much was that per ton?

11. I owe A $185.47; B $346.87; C $287.36; D $418.25; E $29.50; and F $125.75. I own property worth $1265.40. How much do I owe more than I am able to pay?

12. Bought 640 bushels of wheat at 85 cents per bushel. After paying $185.60 what remained yet unpaid?

13. A laborer earns $1.75 a day and spends $1.62 a day. How much can he save in one year of 313 working days?

14. A farmer owed $800. He paid 265 bushels of corn worth 45 cents per bushel and 400 bushels of wheat worth 87 cents per bushel. How much is still unpaid?

15. A merchant deposited in bank at one time $1725; at another $867.50; at another $584.30. He then drew out $738.40, and again deposited $628.42. How much had he then in the bank?

16. A banker's expenses are $8.75 a day. How much will he save in 365 days, his income being $4000?

17. Bought 486 barrels of apples for $15793. Sold one-half of them at cost price and the remainder at $3.75 per barrel. How much did I receive for them?

18. A crop of wheat amounting to 3420 bushels was sold for $1881. How much was that per bushel?

19. Bought 165 barrels of apples of 3 bushels each at 35 cents per bushel and sold the whole for $200. How much did I gain?

20. A drover bought cattle at $46.56 per head, and sold them at $65.42 per head, and thereby gained $3526.82. How many cattle did he buy?

21. If 26 men receive $988 for 38 days' work, how much does each man earn a day?

22. A gentleman dying left one-third of his estate amounting to $48000 to his widow and the remainder to his six children equally. What was the portion of each child?

23. If 25 men perform a piece of work for $2000, and spend, while doing it, $163.75, what will be each man's share of the profits?

24. What, is the cost of 24865 pounds of hay at $23.50 per ton? 25. A grocer bought a hogshead of molasses containing 63 gallons for $49.14; 9 gallons leaked out and he sold the remainder at 85 cents per gallon. Did he gain or lose on the entire quantity, and how much?

26. If 55 barrels of flour cost $283 what will 133 barrels cost? 27. What is the cost of seven pieces of cambric, each piece containing 23 yards at 12 cents per yard?

29. What cost 1827 pounds of fertilizer at $32.40 per ton?

30. John runs 45 rods a minute and William pursues him at the rate of 50 rods a minute. If John has 5 minutes the start of William, how long will it require William to overtake John?

31. Reduce .0625 to a common fraction.

32. What is the cost of 14620 bricks at $5.60 per M?

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33. What will of a cord of wood cost at $5.65 per cord? 34. Reduce 2, .621, 371, to decimals, and find their

sum.

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35. A miller bought 3563 bushels of wheat of one man and 145 of another at 62 cents per bushel. He sold of the entire quantity at a profit of $52.80, and the balance at 68 cents per bushel. How much did he gain or lose by the transaction?

36. Find the number of gallons in 5 barrels of cider if the first contained 31.375 gallons, the second 38.0002 gallons, the

third 34.4 gallons, the fourth 36.12 gallons, and the fifth 35 gallons.

37. A man bequeathed .125 of his property to an orphan asylum, to his son, and the remainder, which was $24120, to his wife. What was the value of his property?

38. A dealer's sales of carpeting and matting for a year were $264320, and the sales of matting were .1875 of the total sales. The cost of the carpeting was .75 of its sales, and the total expenses of the business were .15625 of the cost of the carpeting. What were the sales of the matting? Of the carpeting? What was the cost of the carpeting? What were the total expenses?

REDUCTION OF DENOMINATE NUMBERS

147. Reduction is the process of changing a number from one denomination to another without altering its value.

148. Reduction Descending is changing a number from a higher to a lower denomination. Thus, 1 foot changed to 12 inches.

149. Reduction Ascending is changing a number from a lower to a higher denomination. Thus, 16 ounces changed to 1 pound.

151. A Legal Tender is money which, if offered, legally will save the debtor from further interest and from costs of suit.

NOTES.-1. All the gold coins, and the silver coins of $1 and upwards, except the trade dollar, are legal tender for all payments.

2. Silver coins less than $1 are legal tender to the amount of $10; nickel and bronze pieces to the amount of 25 cents.

II. Canada Money

152. Canada Money is the legal currency of the Dominion of Canada. It is founded on the Decimal Notation, and its denominations, Dollars, Cents and Mills, have the same nominal value as the corresponding denominations of United States money. Hence, all the operations in it are the same as those in United States money.