PUPIL-TEACHER EXAMINATION PAPERS.

CANDIDATES-MALES.

ARITHMETIC.

1. A leg of mutton, weighing 9 lb., cost 6s. 4d.; find the value of 6 sheep, each weighing 1 cwt. 2 lb., at the same price.

2. If 10 men do a piece of work in 9 days, how many men will do another piece four times as great in two-thirds of the time?

3. Find, by Practice, the value of 19 cwt. 3 qr. 24 lb., at £10, 6s. 8d. per ton.

4. Find, by Practice, the value of 6754 articles at £2, 1s. 5d. each.

5. A gentleman pays a tax of 4d. in the £, amounting to £21, 13s. 4d.; on how much was the tax paid?

6. What sum will gain £16, 8s. in five years, if £100 gain £4 in one year?

7. Find, by Practice, the price of 37 cwt. 3 qr. 17 lb. of coffee at £8, 17s. 4d. per cwt.

8. If the sixpenny loaf weighs 2 lb. 3 oz. when wheat is selling at 64s. per quarter, what should it weigh when wheat is selling at 56s.?

9. If 3 men earn £15 in 20 days, how many men will earn 15 guineas in 9 days at the same rate?

10. Find, by Practice, the rent of 23 ac. 3 ro. 16 po., at 2 guineas per acre.

11. If 200 guineas be required to keep one hundred and seventeen persons for a fortnight, what sum will keep 26 persons during the months of December and January?

12. Sugar was bought at £1, 15s. per cwt., and sold at 41d. a lb., thus making a profit of £1, 19s. 93d.; what quantity was bought?

13. Find, by Practice, the value of 1181 tons of iron at £4, 11s. 91d. per ton.

14. Find, by Practice, the value of 117 articles at £3, 17s. 10d. each.

15. Find, by Practice, the cost of 6 qr. 3 bushels at £2, 2s. 6d. per quarter.

16. What is the value of wheat per bushel, when four quarters and a half cost £10, 2s. 6d. ?

17. If 22 men can build a wall 80 yd. long, 2 yd. wide, and 4 yd. high, in 33 days, how high a wall 60 yd. long, and 1 yd. wide can 16 men build in 18 days?

18. Find, by Practice, the value of 6754 articles at £2, 11s. 5d. each.

19. Find, by Practice, the value of 13 lb. 10 oz. 15 dwt. 20 grains, at £1, 18s. 6d. per ounce.

20. If 5 miles 6 fur. 10 po. of railway can be laid by 280 workmen in 140 days, in what time would 1400 workmen lay the same distance of railway?

21. If 18 yd. 2 qr. of cloth, of a yard wide, cost 30 shillings and sevenpence halfpenny, what length of cloth, half a yard wide, can be bought for twice that sum?

22. Find, by Practice, the value of a bankrupt stock, priced for sale at £1440, but valued at 19s. 34d. in the £.

23. A bankrupt compounded with his creditors for 9s. 6d. in the £; how much was lost in a debt of £112, 10s.?

24. Nine men take seventeen days to a certain work; how many men must I hire to do a work twice as large in double the time?

25. My nominal income is £384 a year, but my taxes of all kinds amount to 1s. 3 d. per £ of my income. Find, by Practice, my income after deducting the taxes.

26. What will be the cost of 12 tons 15 cwt. 2 qr. 8 oz. at £12, 10s. per ton?

27. If a farthing be the tax on a pound sterling, on what sum would 15s. 6d. be the tax?

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28. In how many days of ten hours each would 60 men dig a trench 100 yd. long, 21 yd. wide, and 4 when 15 men can dig one 250 yd. long, 2 yd. 21 ft. deep in 40 days of 8 hours each?

29. Find, by Practice, the value of 4562 articles at £3, 15s. 91d. each.

30. Find, by Practice, the value of 6 tons 7 cwt. 2 qr. 17 lb. at £3, 10s. 7d. per cwt.

31. If £52, 18s. 9d. be given for 40 yd. 2 ft. 10 in. of brickwork, how many yards can be built for £101, 15s. ?

32. A field, measuring 10 acres, and worth 41s. an acre yearly, is exchanged for one worth 40s. an acre yearly. Find the extent of the second field.

33. Find, by Practice, the price of 3 cwt. 2 qr. 17 lb., at the rate of £1, 5s. 8d. per quarter.

34. If 44 men take 45 days to a certain work, how many men could do it in 44 days?

35. A contractor purchases 46 tons 7 cwt. of potatoes for £145, and sells them at 51d. per stone of 14 lb. Find his profit.

36. If 2 acres of my farm be worth seven of my neighbour's, and my farm of 350 acres be rented at £770, what is the extent of my neighbour's farm, for which he pays

37. If a pair of boots cost £1, 19s. 11d., find, by Practice, the value of eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one pairs.

38. A man working 12 hours a day can complete a certain piece of work in 7 days; how many hours a day must he work to complete a piece of work 3 times as large in 28 days?

39. How many lbs. of coffee at 2s. 9d. per lb. are equal in value to 426 lb. of tea at 3s. 41d. per lb. ?

40. If I buy 300 yards of lace at 3 yards for a shilling, and sell it at the rate of 5 yards for two shillings, do I gain or lose, and how much?

41. Find, by Practice, the value of 13 cwt. 3 qr. 17 lb. of tea at £448 per ton.

42. Find the income-tax on £1191, 3s. 9d. at 16d. in the £.

43. How much silk may be bought for £18, 3s. 10d., if 10 yd. 2 qr. cost £2, 11s. 74d.?

44. If 12 men, working 9 hours a day, can build a house in 70 days, in how many days might it be built by 63 men working 8 hours a day?

45. Find the value of 750 oxen at 81d. the lb., and 3508 sheep at 61d., assuming 4 cwt. as the weight of an ox, and 12 stones as that of a sheep.

46. Reduce nine million forty thousand and twelve inches to miles, furlongs, poles, &c.

47. Find the price of 4 tons 13 cwt. 2 qr. 21 lb. at £20, 8s. 8d. per cwt.

48. 15,000 bricks, each 10 inches long and 4 inches wide, are required to pave a court; how many bricks would be required if each brick were 12 inches long and 5 inches wide?

49. Find, by Practice, the value of 8026 articles at £2, 16s. 10 d. each.