ARITHMETIC. PART I. SECTION I. A.* 1. How many thumbs have you on your right hand? how many on your left? how many on both together? 2. How many hands have you? 3. If you have two nuts in one hand and one in the other, how many have you in both? 4. How many fingers have you on one hand ? 5. If you count the thumb with the fingers, how many will it make? 6. If you shut your thumb and one finger and leave the rest open, how many will be open ? 7. If you have two cents in one hand, and two in the other, how many have you in both? 8. James has two apples, and William has three ; if James gives his apples to William, how many will William have ? 9. If you count all the fingers on one hand, and two on the other, how many will there be? 10. George has three cents, and Joseph has four; how many have they both together? * For the manner of solving questions, and the explanation of the plates, see the key at the end of the book. The first questions in this section are intended for very young children. It will be well for the instructer to give a great many more of this kind.-Older pupils may omit these. 11. Robert gave five cents for an orange, and two for an apple, how many did he give for both? 12. If a custard cost: six cents, and an apple two cents; how many cents will it take to buy an apple and a custard? 13. If you buy a pint of nuts for five cents, and an orange for three cents, how many cents would you give for both? how many more for the nuts than for the orange? 14. If an ounce of figs is worth six cents, and a half a pint of cherries is worth three cents; how much are they both worth? 15. Dick had five plums, and John gave him four more; how many had he then? 16. How many fingers have you on both hands? 17. How many fingers and thumbs have you on both hands? 18. If you had six marbles in one hand, and four in the other; how many would you have in the one, more than in the other? how many would you have in both hands? 19. David had seven nuts, and gave three of them to George, how many had he left? 20. Two boys, James and Robert, played at marbles; when they began, they had seven apiece, and when they had done, James had won four; how many had each then? 21. A boy, having eleven nuts, gave away three of them, how many had he left? 22. If you had eight cents, and your papa should give you five more, how many would you have? 23. A man bought a sheep for eight dollars, and a calf for seven dollars, what did he give for both ? 24. A man bought a barrel of flour for eight dollars, and sold it for four dollars more than he gave for it; how much did he sell it for? 25. A man bought a hundred weight of sugar for nine dollars, and a barrel of flour for seven dollars, how much did he give for the whole? 26. A man bought three barrels of cider for eight dollars, and ten bushels of apples for nine dollars; how much did he give for the whole ? 27. A man bought a firkin of butter for twelve dollars, but, being damaged, he sold it again for eight dollars; how much did he lose? 28. A man bought three sheep for fifteen dollars, but could not sell them again for so much by eight dollars; how much did he sell them for? 29. A man bought sixteen pounds of coffee, and lost seven pounds of it as he was carrying it home, how much had he left? 30. A man. bought nineteen pounds of sugar, and having lost a part of it, he found he had nine pounds left; how much had he lost? 31. A man owing fifteen dollars, paid nine dollars of it, how much did he then owe? 32. A man owing seventeen dollars, paid all but seven dollars; how much did he pay? B. 1. Two and one are how many? ? ? 15. Six and three are how many? 16. Seven and three are how many? 17. Eight and three are how many? 18. Nine and three are how many? 19. Ten and three are how many? 20. Two and four are how many? 21. Three and four are how many? 22. Four and four are how many? 23. Five and four are how many? 24. Six and four are how many? 25. Seven and four are how many? 26. Eight and four are how many 27. Nine and four are how many ? 28. Ten and four are how many? · 29. Two and five are how many ? 30. Three and five are how many? 31. Four and five are how many? 32. Five and five are how many? 33. Six and five are how many? 34. Seven and five are how many ? 35. Eight and five are how many? 36. Nine and five are how many? 37. Ten and five are how many ? 38. Two and six are how many? 39. Three and six are how many? 40. Four and six are how many? 41. Five and six are how many ? 42. Six and six are how many? 43. Seven and six are how many? 44. Eight and six are how many? 45. Nine and six are how many ? 46. Ten and six are how many? 47. Two and seven are how many? 48. Three and seven are how many? 49. Four and seven are how many? 50. Five and seven are how many? 51. Six and seven are how many? Sect. 1.1 ARITHMETIC. 21 10. A man bought a sleigh for seventeen dollars, and gave nine dollars to have it repaired and painted, and then sold it for twenty-three dollars; how much did he lose by the bargain? ? ? ? 11. Eleven and two are how many? ? |