5. How much will be paid for 99 yd. of dress goods at 331 per yd.? 6. How many yards of carpet at 66¢ per yard can be bought for $84? 7. Find the cost of 15 doz. collars at 121 8. Paid $24 for cuffs at 163 per pair. pairs were bought? each? How many dozen 9. What will be the cost of 128 lb. of tea at 75¢ per lb. ? 10. A bale of cotton at 61 per lb. cost $25. What was the weight of the cotton? 11. A farmer sold hay at 75¢ per cwt., receiving for it $39. How many cwt. did he sell? 12. How many bbl. of mess pork at $12.50 per bbl. can be bought for $175? 13. What will be the cost of 96 yd. of carpet at $1.25 per yd.? 14. When wheat sells at $1.121 per bu., how many bushels can be bought for $198? 15. At $3.50 each, what will be paid for 84 coats? 16. Find the cost of 28 hats at $2.75 each? 17. A real estate agent sold 97 lots at $250 each. much did he receive for them? How 18. What will be the cost of 248 horses at $125 each? 19. At cent each, how many pen-holders can I buy for $5.76? 20. Paid $3,675 for cows at $75 each. How many were bought? 718. U. S. Civil Service. Special Examinations for Type Writers. 1. The internal revenue tax collected on certain items in 1881 was as follows: Cigars, $16,095,724.78; cigarettes, $992,981.22; snuff, $689,183.03; smoking and chewing tobacco, $22,833,287.60; ale, beer, and porter, $13,237,703.63; bank capital, $811,006.35. What was the whole amount of tax collected on these items? 2. The total ordinary receipts of the Government for the fiscal year 1882 were $403,525,250.28; and the total ordinary expenditures for the same period were $257,981,439.57. What was the excess of receipts over expenditures? 3. Write in figures: one hundred thousand three hundred two dollars and four cents. 4. Express in words: 103,004,375.05. 5. Seven hundred two dollars and ninety cents are to be divided among nine men and three boys; the boys are to have twenty-five dollars and five cents each, and the balance is to be divided equally among the men. What is each man's share? 6. If 25 women copy 75 record-books of 660 pages each in 165 days, how many pages per day will each one copy? 7. In an orchard there are 907 apple trees, each yielding 19 bushels of apples. How many bushels did the whole orchard yield, and what would the yield be worth at 79 cents per bu.? 8. From of of of 3 subtract of, and reduce to lowest terms. APPROXIMATIONS. 719. Give approximate answers, at sight (Art. 521): 2. 24 horses @ $124.95. 6. 840 yd. of dress goods @ 335. 7. 360 yd. of oil cloth @ 663. 8. 48 cwt. of straw @ 62§. 9. 92 hats @ $1.493. 10. 128 lb. of lard @ 123. 1. What will be the weight of 16 hams that average 10 lb. 5 oz. each? 7 oz. 2. From a chest of tea containing 54 lb. there were sold 27 lb. How many lb. remain ? 3. Seven bushels of potatoes are divided among 8 persons. How many pecks and quarts does each receive? 4. How many square inches in the surface of a sheet of paper measuring 11 inches by 13 inches? 5. How many feet and inches in § yd.? 6. What decimal of a pound is 14 oz. ? 7. A man buys a bushel of hickory nuts. After he sells 2 pk. 4 qt., what fraction of the bushel has he left? 8. A dealer puts 30 gal. of milk in cans holding 1 qt. 1 pt. each. How many cans does he fill? 9. At $20 per month, how much rent will a man pay in 1 year and 5 months? 10. 75 hundredths of a pound is how many ounces? |