8. From (612+12) take (316—32).

9. (591 X 3) +29 how many?

Ans. 340.

Ans. 1802.

10. Gave 3375 dollars and 5 horses, worth each 125 dollars, for a farm of 160 acres ; what was the cost of the farm per acre? Ans. 25 dollars.

11. What number is that which if added to 1000 will amount to 5417?

Ans. 4417.

12. Bought 3 barrels of flour at 12 dollars a barrel, and 7 tons of hay at 30 dollars a ton, and paid for the whole 44 sheep; how much each was allowed for the sheep? Ans. 4 dollars.

Ans. 23.

13. (565+10)÷25 how many? 14. Paid one-half of 36730 dollars for some oil-lands, which turned out to be 963 dollars more than their true value; what were they worth? Ans. 17402 dollars.

15. If the yearly income of a farmer is 2163 dollars, and from it he has to pay 122 dollars for repairs, 35 dollars for taxes, 516 dollars for hired help, and 805 dollars for support of his family, how much can he save? Ans. 685 dollars. 16. At 85 dollars per acre, how many acres of land can be bought for 8575 dollars?

Ans. 100, with 75 dollars left. 17. At 150 dollars each, how many horses can be bought for 2165 dollars?

18. A drover has 2144 dollars, with which he wishes to buy horses at 165 dollars each, and then lay out the remainder for sheep at 4 dollars each. How many of each can he buy? Ans. 12 horses, and 41 sheep.

REVIEW.

What is Addition? (39.) Subtraction? (44) Multiplication? (49.) Division? (59.)

71. The coins of the United States are of bronze, nickel, silver, and gold:

two-cent; cent and

BRONZE NICKEL three-cent and five-cent; SILVER-three-cent, half-dime, dime, quarter-dollar, half-dollar, and dollar; GOLD-dollar, quartereagle, three dollar, half-eagle, eagle, and double-eagle.

What is United States Money? Recite the Table. Coins? Of what are the coins of the United States? of bronze? Of nickel? Of silver? Of gold?

What are

Which are

72. The Dollar is the unit of United States Money. 73. In accounts, eagles are expressed in dollars, dimes in cents, and mills often in parts of a cent.

Thus, 3 eagles are called 30 dollars; 2 dimes, 20 cents; and 5 mills, often, half a cent.

Eagles are tens of dollars, dimes are tenths, cents hundredths, and mills thousandths, of a dollar, and they are separated from dollars by the decimal point, (.)

Hence 44 eagles 4 dollars 4 dimes 4 cents 4 mills are written

$444.444,

and read four hundred forty-four dollars forty-four cents four mills.

74. In United States Money, 10 of a lower denomination are 1 of the next higher. Hence,

United States Money may be written, added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided, by preceding rules.

MENTAL EXERCISES.

1. How many mills are there in 7 cents?

SOLUTION. Since in 1 cent there are 10 mills, in 7 cents there are 7 times 10 mills, which are 70 mills. Therefore, in 7 cents there are 70 mills.

2. How many cents are there in 8 dimes? 3. How many dollars are there in 5 eagles? 4. How many dimes are there in 6 dollars?

5. How many dollars are there in 4 half-eagles?

What is the Unit of United States Money? How are Eagles expressed in accounts? Dimes? Mills, often? What are Eagles? Dimes? Cents? Mills? How are dimes, cents, and mills separated from dollars? How many of a lower denomination in United States Money make 1 of the next higher? How may United States Money be written, added, subtracted, etc.?

6. How many cents are there in 6 half-dimes?
7. How many cents are there in 4 quarter-dollars?
8. How many dollars are there in 3 double-eagles?
9. How many cents are there in 70 mills?

SOLUTION.

Since in 10 mills there is one cent, in 70 mills there are as many cents as 10 mills are contained times in 70 mills, which are 7. Therefore, there are 7 cents in 70 mills.

10. How many dimes are there in 60 cents?
11. How many dollars are there in 100 cents?
12. How many dollars are there in 300 cents?
13. How many dollars are there in 70 dimes?
14. How many cents are there in 90 mills?
15. How many eagles are there in 110 dollars?

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

Copy and read the following:

10. Twenty-five dollars fifteen cents.
11. Sixty-three dollars seven cents.
12. One hundred dollars ten cents.
13. Two dollars two cents five mills.
14. No dollars sixteen cents.
15. Twenty-five dollars five mills.
16. Five hundred seventy-nine dollars.
17. Three dollars no cents eight mills.
18. One thousand dollars one cent.

Give the Solution of Ex. 9.

Ans. $25.15. Ans. $63.07. Ans. $100.10.

Ans. $2.025.

Ans. $0.16.

Ans. $25.005.
Ans. $579.

Ans. $1000.01.

ADDITION.

75. 1. Add $21.38, $1.82, and $31.015.

OPERATION.

$21.38 1.82 31.015 $54.215

For convenience, we write the numbers so that figures of the same order shall stand in the same column, and begin at the right to add, observing to place the decimal point between dollars and

cents.

6. Add $960.17, $817.05, $3.09, and $29.19?

7. Bought a coat for $12.50, a vest for $6, a pair of shoes for $2.12, and a handkerchief for $0.87; how much did the whole cost? Ans. $21.50.

8. Sold a horse for $208, a cow for $70, and some hay for $27.50; how much did the whole bring?

9. Albert Dayton owes A $145.91, B $1690.84, C $345.11, D $918.85, and E $1144.75; what is the whole amount of his debts? Ans. $4245.46.

10. If I give for a plow $10.63, for a wagon $86.75, for a load of hay $17.15, and for a hoe $1.25, how much do they all cost me?

11. A merchant owes three hundred seven dollars, six hundred twenty-two dollars eighty-eight cents, sixty-two dollars 17 cents 5 mills, 325 dollars 12 cents 5 mills; how much does he owe?

How are the numbers written in Addition of United States Money? Why? Ans. Because only numbers of the same denomination can be added? Where do you begin to add? Where do you place the decimal point in the result?