58. 1 is how many times? 2 is how many times 6 is how many times? 11 is how many times ? 59. At $a pint, how many pints of vinegar can be bought for $2? For $3? For $4?

ANAL. STEP.-1. Find how many can be bought for $1.

2. Find how many can be bought for $2.

FORM.-$ or $1 will buy 9 times as much as $}; $} will buy 1 pint, therefore $1 will buy 9 pints, and $2 will buy 2 times 9 pints, which are 18 pints.

60. How many peaches can I buy for 6 dimes, at of a dime apiece?

61. How many lemons can I buy for $5, if each lemon cost of a cent?

62. How many ninths of a yard can I cut from a piece containing 3 yards?

LESSON LIX.

MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS.

1. If I have $1, and give away of it, how much shall I have left?

2. Into how many quarters can I cut 5 apples? Into how many sixths? Into how many twelfths?

3. What will 6 melons come to, if I can sell 4 of 1 melon for 5 cts.? For 6 cts.? For 10 cts.? 4. How many 8ths in 1? In 3? 5. How many elevenths in In 100?

In 12? In 20?

1?

In 4 In 50?

6. How many 7ths in 84? In 3? In 6? In 49?

7. What must I give for a house, if of it is worth $400?

8. What will a mill be worth if is worth $2400?

9. I have $61, how many dimes have I?

10. I have 24 quarters of an apple, how many whole apples have I?

11. In 30 ninths of a dollar, how many dollars are there?

12. How many units in 41? In 24? In 10? In 4?

13. Which is the greater, for ? for? for f? for ?

or of an apple? for ? or ?

or ? % or 11
3 ? f

or ? or ? 12 or 13? 21

14. Which is the greater, or ? or ?

or 21?

15. Which is the greater, or ? for f? & or ? 5 or 3?

16. Which fraction is of the greater denomination, or ? or ?

or or 11?

or

or 7? 4 or 4?

17. What determines the denomination of a fraction? Which is the numerator? Which is the denominator?

18. What is of $25? of $17? of $20!
of $37?

19. What is the number formed by adding and ‡?

ar

SU

07

h

20. What is the number formed by adding $1 and $?

21. What is the sum of and of of a pound of sugar?

22. A boy has of a bushel of nuts, which is of a bushel less than his brother has; how many has his brother?

23. is less than what number?

24. What number is larger by than ?

25. A man dug a ditch

of a rod longer than his brother's door-yard, which was of a rod; how long was the ditch?

26. is the difference between § and what larger number?

27. John had ference between

of a melon, which was the difand what part of a whole melon ? 28. must be taken from what number to get?

29. If you take from a certain number, will remain; what is the number?

30. A boy had of a pound of candy; he gave away § of a pound; how much had he left?

31. What is the difference between and ?
32. $ is $ more than what part of a dollar?
33. What number is less by

34. To what number must

than &?

be added to get £? 35.4 is the difference between if and what less number?

36. By adding to a certain number the sum is ; what is the number?

of it cost?

42. If 1 cake costs $7, what will

43. If 1 barrel of flour is worth $9, what will

of a barrel be worth?

44. If a pound of figs cost of a dollar, what will of a pound be worth?

45. I gave

of $16 for a barrel of fish, and of $24 for a tub of lard; how much did both

cost?

46. What are of 141?

Of 361?

Of 241?

Of 44?

47. 5 times are how many? 6 times equal what?×5 equal what?

48. If 1 pig is worth $11, what are 5 worth? 49. If $ will buy 1 dozen of eggs, what will 7 doz. cost?

50. Julia is 11 years old, Mary is twice as old, how old is Mary?

51. 3 times 16 are how many? 5×4=what? 64×5=what?

52. It costs $ to dig 1 rod of ditch, what must I give to have 7 rods dug?

53. 1 pound of rice costs $, what will ten pounds cost?

54. $80 is the cost of a house; what was given for it?

55. $ divided by 4 equals how much? #÷3= what?

56. 6 pounds of ginger are worth $? what is the value of 1 pound?

57. 2 doz. of eggs are worth $; what is the value of 1 dozen ?

58. 1 dozen knives are worth $33; what is that apiece?

59. 1 gallon of vinegar is worth $; how much is that per quart?

60. 1 yard of cloth is worth $34; how much is that a quarter?

LESSON LX.

For

1. At of a dollar a pound, how many pounds of cheese can be bought for $1? For $2? $31?

2. If a boy earns of a dollar per day, how long will it take him to earn $1? $3? $41?

3. $1 is how many times $?

FORM.-is contained in 3 or 1, 3 times, and is contained in 1, 1 of 3 times, which is 3 times, equal to 11.

4. 1 is how many times ? ANS.-4=11? 5. 1 is how many times ? ? 3 ? 11 ? ? ? 6. $1 is how many times $?

$23?

$? $4? $7?

7. How many pints of chestnuts can be bought

for $1, at $ per pint?