1. Tell how the following articles are sold: butter,

2. Helen's purchase at the store weighs 8 oz. part of a pound does it weigh?

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6. How many 2-ounce packages weigh 1 pound?

1. Ask the grocer or your parents what small articles are sold by the ounce or by the pound.

2. What weights are used by the butcher?

3. Edith bought a 2-ounce package of onion seeds, a 4-ounce package of lettuce seeds, an 8-ounce package of tomato seeds, and a 2-ounce package of flower seeds. How many pounds did she buy in all?

4. Find the cost of 2 lb. of fish at 28 a pound.

17. How many ounces are there in pound of sugar?

18. How much must I pay for a chicken weighing 3 lb. at 44 a pound?

19. How many ounces of ginger are equal to 6 pounds of ginger?

20. Ruth's mother buys of a pound of knitting wool. How many ounces should she get? How many ounces should she get if she buys 1 pounds?

21. Find the cost of lb. of butter at 36 a pound.

1. Measure the width of a table in feet and inches.

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3. Some articles are sold by a measure 3 times the length of a foot rule. Name some of them.

4. Draw a line on the blackboard 3 feet in length.

5. The line you have drawn is one yard long.

3 feet = 1 yard 3 ft. = 1 yd.

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1. Frank has a row of potatoes in his garden 150 ft. long. How many yards long is it?

2. Susan lives 360 yd. from the schoolhouse. How many feet does she live from the schoolhouse?

3. A steamship that is 960 ft. in length is how many yards long?

4. A man who is 6 ft. in height is how many inches in height? how many yards?

5. The schoolroom is 40 ft. in length. How many yards and feet over is that?

6. The schoolroom is 30 ft. in width. How many yards wide is it?

7. John is 5 ft. 4 in. in height. How many inches. is he in height? Show this by the tapeline.

8. Mary sits 5 ft. from the teacher's desk. How many inches does she sit from the teacher's desk?

9. The schoolroom door is 3 ft. 9 in. wide. How many inches wide is the door?

10. Paul measures the distance that he lives from the schoolhouse and finds that it is 900 feet. How many yards is this distance?

11. Two girls measure with a tapeline the distance around the schoolhouse, and find that it is 140 ft. How many yards and how many feet over is this distance?

12. Mary is 4 ft. 7 in. tall. How many inches in height is she?

1. Measure this figure with your rule. How long is it? how wide? How many equal sides has it?

2. What is a square inch? How does the entire figure differ from one square inch?

A figure having square corners and longer than it is wide is called an oblong.

3. Cut from paper an oblong 1 inch wide and 4 inches long, and fold it to show the number of square inches in it. Do the same with an oblong 2 inches wide and 4 inches long.

4. An oblong is 5 inches long and contains 15 square inches. Draw the oblong to show the width and the number of square inches.

5. An oblong has 24 square inches. It is 6 inches long. Draw the figure on paper. Fold it to show each square inch.

6. An oblong 6 inches long and 3 inches wide will make an oblong inches long and 1 inch wide.

7. Show that a square containing 9 square inches is 3 inches on each side.