246. Multiply. Do not reduce to improper fractions.

1. What per cent does a boy receive if he solves 16 examples of the 20 given out?

2. What is the interest on $200 at 4% for 2 years?

3. If 23 yards of calico cost 22 cents, how many yards can be bought for 60?

4. How old, Dec. 1, 1904, was a boy born Sept. 1, 1891 ? 5. What is the cost of 3500 bricks at $20 per M?

6. How many sheep, at $5 each, should be given in exchange for 12 horses, worth $200 each?

7. 75 men can do a certain piece of work in 9 days. How long will it take 45 men to do the same work?

8. If 4 barrels of oil each containing 42 gallons are emptied into a tank of 200 gallons' capacity, how many more gallons will the tank hold?

9. Change .375 yard to feet and inches.

10. How many half-pints in 2 gal. 1 qt.?

11. How many eggs in 15 dozen and 6 eggs?

13. Find the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, 27.

14. Find the least common multiple of 8, 9, 12.

15. How many yards in 5 pieces of cloth, each containing 12 yards?

16. Divide 29 by 7.

17. When silk is 75¢ per yard, how many yards can be bought for $9.75?

18. If 25 yards ribbon cost 42 cents, what will 3 yards cost?

19. If eggs are sold at the rate of 18 for 25 cents, what will be the cost of 6 dozen eggs?

20. Three men require 22 days to do a certain piece of work. How long would it take 11 men to do the same work?

21. A farmer divides his farm of 425 acres into fields of 12 acres each. How many fields has he?

22. What will be the cost of 46 tons of hay, at $12 per ton?

23. What is the weight of 25 firkins of butter, each containing 56 pounds?

24. At $1.75 per yard, how many yards of cloth can be bought for $49?

25. If the interest of $1 is 6¢ a year, what is the interest of three dollars for two years?

26. If 4 boxes of raisins cost $7, what will 12 boxes cost? 27. A man having 75 dollars bought 7 sheep, and had $5 left. What did he pay for each sheep?

28. A boy had 59 peaches and found 22 more; he then divided all of them equally among 9 boys. How many did he give to each?

29. I bought 23

pounds at another.

pounds of sugar at one store and 31 How many pounds did I buy in all?

30. If of a load of hay is worth $42, what will two loads be worth?

31. 21=?

32. 2×14= ?

33. of my money equals 634. What is of it?

34. Least common multiple of 8, 12, 15, 24?

35. If 5 men can do a piece of work in 12 days, in how many days can 3 men do twice as much work?

36. John lost of his money and has 96¢ left. How much had he at first?

37. At 64 a quart, what will 10 quarts 1 pint of milk cost?

38. I bought a dozen oranges at the rate of 4 oranges for 34, and sold them at the rate of 3 oranges for 44. How much did I make?

39. How long would it take 3 men to cut a cord of wood, if 4 men can cut a cord in 5 days?

40. John sold 24 tops at the rate of 3 tops for ten cents, and with the money bought pictures at 8 each. How many pictures did he buy?

41. How many pounds of cheese at of a dollar per pound can be bought for & of a dollar?

42. 18 is of of what number?

43. If one man can do a piece of work in 113 days, in what time can 12 men do it?

44. How many times is contained in 2?

45. If oranges are 37 cents per dozen, what will be the cost of a box containing 480 oranges?

248. Written Review Problems.

1. At 70 cents per 100 pounds, what will be the amount of duty on an invoice of 3622 railway bars, each bar being 27 feet long and weighing 60 pounds to the yard?

2. A man had property valued at $6500. What will be his taxes at the rate of $10.80 per $1000 ?

3. Multiply seventy thousand fourteen hundred-thousandths by one hundred nine millionths, and divide the product by five hundred forty-five.

4. What number multiplied by 433 will produce 265g? 5. What decimal of a bushel is 3 quarts?

6. A man sells of an acre of land for $93.75. What would be the value of his farm of 150 acres at the same rate?

7. A coal dealer buys 375 tons coal at $4.25 per ton of 2240 pounds. He sells it at $4.50 per ton of 2000 pounds. What is his profit?

8. Bought 60 yards of cloth at the rate of 2 yards for $5, and 80 yards more at the rate of 4 yards for $9. I immediately sold the whole of it at the rate of 5 yards for $12. How much did I gain?

9. A man purchased 40 bushels of apples at $1.50 per bushel. Twenty-five hundredths of them were damaged, and he sold them at 20 cents per peck. He sold the remainder at 50 cents per peck. How much did he gain or lose?

10. If oranges are 37 cents per dozen, how many boxes, each containing 480, can be bought for $60?

11. A man can do a piece of work in 183 days. What part of it can he do in 63 days?

12. How old to-day is a boy that was born Oct. 29, 1896 ?

13. At the rate of $5 per ton, what should be paid for 125 pounds of coal?

14. From ten and five hundredths take the sum of six ten-thousandths and 15 millionths, multiply the remainder by one-tenth, and divide the product by 5000.

15. Reduce the following common fractions to decimals, and perform the operations indicated:

16. A man died in 1903, aged 94; his son died in 1887, aged 47. How old was the man at the birth of his son?

17. Multiply the sum of 63 and 4 by their difference.

18. What will be the cost of 86,400 feet of gas at $1.25 per thousand feet?

19. What time elapsed between the discovery of America, Oct. 14, 1492, and Jan. 1, 1904 ?

20. How many hats can be bought for $237.25, at the rate of $13 per dozen?

21. A clerk receives a salary of $1500 per year, and his expenses are $968. In what time can he save enough to buy 133 acres of land at $28 per acre?

22. What will be the rent of a house for 1 yr. 10 mo. at $45 per month?

23. The product is .00087, the multiplicand is 7.25. What is the multiplier?

24. A man sells cloth at $2.88 per yard, losing .04 of the cost. How much did he pay per yard?

25. A farm hand agreed to work for $300 per year and a horse worth $60. If he leaves at the end of 9 months, how much is due him if he has already received $100 and the horse?