The Cooking Class 1. It requires 4 yd. of material to make each of these girls an apron. How much is required for the class of 7 girls? 2. At $.23 a yard for the material how much do 7 aprons cost? 3. From 91 yd. of lawn, how many caps, requiringyd. each, can be made? (Change to in.) 4. At $.18 a yard, find the cost of lawn for sleeve protectors for 7 girls, each sleeve requiring yd. 5. How many pupils can be supplied with rolling pins and pie pans out of $9, if each pin costs $.20, and each pan $.10 ? 6. Miss Dunn, the teacher, purchases the following: 7 flour cans @ $.40, 7 cake pans @ $.25, 7 sugar shakers @ $.17. Find the amount of her purchases. 7. Entertaining the directors, this class uses 7 spring chickens @ $.70, 3 pounds of rice @ $.10, 1 head cabbage @ $.08, 2 boxes tomatoes @ $.15, lb. butter @ $.48, 1 pt. cream @ $.24, and gallon ice cream @ $1.50. How much does the dinner cost them? 1. George bought a camera costing $6.12 and 6 rolls of films for $.24 each. How much change did he receive from a $10 bill? 2. Each picture was 2 inches by 31 inches. What was the number of square inches in its surface? 3. The pictures were mounted on cardboard, with a margin of inch on each side. What was the length of the cardboard? the width? the number of square inches in the surface? 4. It cost $.18 to develop the roll of films. How much was this for each of the 6 exposures? 5. A roll of films having 6 exposures cost $.24, the developing for 6 exposures $.18, the printing of each picture $.03, and the mounting $.02. What was the total cost of each picture? 6. A picture 21 inches by 31 inches was mounted in the middle of a card 43 inches by 5 inches. How much margin was there on the card? 7. How large a card would be needed to mount a picture 6 inches by 8 inches, leaving a margin of 3 inches on each side? Apples, $2.25 a bushel. Buying Groceries Peaches, good, $2.25 a bushel. fancy, $2.50 a bushel. Pears, $1.50 a bushel. Grapes, Niagara, $1.20 a 10-lb. basket. Eggs, 48 a dozen. Nut butter, 28 a pound. Cheese, full cream, 30 a pound. Concord, $1.25 a 10-lb. basket. Potatoes, 50% a peck. From the above prices find the cost of the following: 1. 8 bu. of fancy peaches. 2. 41 lb. of nut butter. 3. 51 pk. of potatoes. 4. 8 10-lb. baskets of Concord grapes. 5. 7 bu. of apples. 6. 41 cases of eggs, 30 dozen each. 7. 8 10-lb. baskets of Niagara grapes. 8. 81 pk. of potatoes. 9. 7 bu. of good peaches. 10. 9 full cream cheeses, 15 lb. each. 11. 7 10-lb. baskets of Concord grapes. 12. 9 bu. of pears. 13. 8 bu. of apples. 14. 7 lb. of dairy butter and 32 lb. of nut butter. 15. 8 bu. of fancy peaches and 42 bu., good quality. 16. 8 10-lb. baskets of Concord grapes, and 6 10-lb. baskets of Niagara grapes. 3)$6.15 $2.05 Divide $6.15 by 3, placing a decimal point directly under the decimal point in the dividend. Write the dollar sign before the number of dollars in the quotient. Find the quotients and test: 1. At $.25 each, how many thrift stamps can you buy 2. Richard's father lent him $50 for a Liberty bond. Richard paid back $.50 a week. it take him to pay for the bond? How many weeks did 3. Mrs. Elsen paid 45 cents a pound for butter for her boarding house. The amount of her bill was $5.40. How many pounds did she buy? 4. Ruth bought silk at $1.25 a yard and paid $12.50. How many yards did she buy? 4 5. The manager of a hotel paid $17.28 for 24 dozen fresh-laid eggs. What was the price per dozen? 6. How many bars of iron, weighing 56 lb. each, are equal in weight to a bar weighing 18,200 lb.? 7. A man sold land for $45 an acre, receiving $7200 for it. How many acres did he sell? 8. An orchard contained 4032 trees, planted in 32 How many trees were there in a row? rows. 9. A farm of 174 acres was sold for $12,876. What was the selling price per acre? 10. Mother paid $4.40 for a turkey at 55 a pound. What was the weight of the turkey? |