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1. From a piece of wire netting containing 160.125 ft. there was cut one piece of 19ğ yd., another of 24.064 yd. How many yards left?

2. How many square rods and square feet in .5 A.? .25 A.? .375 A.? .6 A.?

3. How many acres, etc., of land in 4.79 A.? .00 A.? 38.59 A.? 9 A.? and 150.7 A.?

4. From the sum of 1.01 and 10.1004 take their difference.

5. A walking-club planned to walk a distance of 99.9 miles. The first day they walk 17.11 mi., the second day 14ğ mi., and the third day 15.7 mi. How many miles had they then to walk? 6. What is the cost of 47 bbl. of flour, each 196 lb., at $6.14% for 100 lb.? for 100 bbl. sugar, each 240 lb., at $.05 a pound? 7. At $.00 a pound, what freight must be paid on a carload containing 5 tons of lead, 3.75 tons of sheet iron, and 7.9375 tons of copper?

8. The gold dollar weighs 25.8 grains, and the silver dollar weighs 412.5 grains. How many pounds, ounces, etc., heavier would a thousand silver dollars weigh than a thousand gold dollars?

9. If the pressure of the atmosphere upon each square inch of surface is 14.75 lb., what will be the pressure upon a surface .75 yd. long and .35 yd. wide?

10. At 63.75 apiece, how many Mexican dollars can be bought for $956.25?

11. By the English system of weights and measures one cubic inch of distilled water, at a temperature of 62° F., weighs 252.458 grains. How much more or less than 1000 oz. does 1 cu. ft. weigh? 12. Change to common fractions in lowest terms: .3§; .6; .42; .108; .016.

13. Change to decimals and mark the repetends: ;;;; 24 14. Change to common fractions in lowest terms: 1.46; .03; .0027; .016; 1.06.

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15. Find the difference between: .6 and .6; .3 and .3; .108 and .108.

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1. Read the numbers expressed in B; in C.
2. Write in figures the numbers expressed in D.
3. Change A to decimals (four places).

4. Change B to common fractions in lowest terms.

5. Add B and C.

6. Add A and B.

7. Add A and C.

8. Add B and D.

9. Add C and D.

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11. Find the difference between B and C.
12. Find the difference between B and D.
13. Find the difference between C and D.

14. Multiply B by 10.
15. Multiply B by 1000.
16. Multiply C by 18.

17. Multiply D by .01.

18. Multiply D by .109.
19. Multiply B by C.

20. Multiply B by D.

Add A and D.

21. Divide B by 10.
22. Divide C by .1.
23. Divide D by 100.
24. Divide D by .001.
25. Divide C by .03.
26. Divide B by .0005.
27. Divide C by B,

1. Find the sum of five hundred and 6 thousandths, fifty and 9 hundredths, five and 9 ten-thousandths, seventy-two and 9 tenths, eight hundred twenty-one and 16 thousandths.

2. From five and 6 hundredths take three and 75 ten-thousandths. Multiply the result by 2.46.

3. A farmer sold 48.39 acres of land, and then had 189.62 acres. How many acres did he have at first?

4. Add of 14.4 and 3 of 19.5, and subtract from the sum the product of 5 X 1.09.

5. If 1 yd. of calico is sold for 9 cents, how many yards may be bought for $1.93? for $.85? for $7.62,3? for $1‡?

6. How much ribbon at 24 a yard can be bought for $4.20 ? for $26.06? What will 30.7 yd. cost?

7. At $6.25 a ton, how much coal will pay for 12 tons of hay at $14.35 a ton?

8. When 19 bales of cotton are sold for $1609.14, what is 1 ble worth? 4.9 bales? 200.6 bales?

9. Multiply the sum of 40.009 and 16.5007 by the difference between 9.001 and 8.709.

10. What is the cost of 39.49 tons of iron at $28 a ton? If it is carried a distance of 439 miles, what are the freight charges at the rate of 1 a ton for a mile?

11. At the rate of 3.789 miles an hour, how many days will it take a man to walk 632.763 miles, if he walks 5 hours a day?

12. Mr. Wright's estate is valued at $87,096. .35 of it is invested in real estate, and .20 of it is deposited in banks. How much money in each?

13. If 3.5 yd. of silk costs $9.73, what will 16.7 yd. cost? What will 7 yd. cost?

14. In 6.5 days a man earns $12.35. How long will it take him to earn $125 at the same wages?

15. From a flock of 600 sheep, .27 of them were sold at $8.35 a head, and the rest at $94 a head. How much was received for all? 16. How much land at 37.5¢ a foot can be bought for $10,000 ? How much at $.08 a foot?

1. What will it cost to paper a room, using 13 rolls of paper at 20 a roll, and 174 yd. of bordering at $.075 a yard? (Use decimals.)

2. A spool of thread contains about 198.7 yd. How many spools can be filled from 9537.6 yd.?

3. A merchant buys 24 pieces of cotton cloth, each containing 42.75 yd., and pays $.06 a yard. What is his gain, if he sells two pieces at the rate of $.075 a yard, and the rest at $.084 a yard?

4. A farmer's wife exchanged 30 dozen eggs at 27 a dozen, for flour at $5.50 a barrel. How many barrels should she receive? 5. If a glass of soda water costs a druggist 24, and he sells it for $.05 how much does he gain on 325 glasses?

6. If a paper of pins containing 250 pins costs 5, what is the value of a pin? How many could be bought for $50?

7. A farmer raised 823.9 bu. of oats on 15 acres of land. A+ the same rate, what would 26.7 acres produce?

8. Find the cost of 4850 laths at 45 a hundred; of 87C6 pickets at $11.50 a thousand.

9. A real estate agent collected $946.45, and received 439 for every dollar collected. How much did he receive?

10. Find the cost of 234 yd. of ribbon @ $.234 a yard.

11. Find the cost of 4.25 doz. tomato plants @ 3

apiece.

12. If I add the product of 9.16 and 54.907 to 43.033, and from this sum subtract 188.09273, what will the remainder be?

13. Mr. Bond made a barbed wire fence of three wires, 62.375 rd. long. What was the cost of wire at 141⁄2 a rd.?

14. The weekly pay-roll of a factory amounted to $7318.50. If the average wages is $1.75 a day, how many employees are there in the factory?

15. Mr. Williams sold 650 acres of land at $25.75 an acre. He invested the proceeds in sugar at $12.25 a barrel. How many barrels did he buy?

16. It cost $30,937.50 to grade a road at $10.3125 a rod. How long is the road?

SECTION V.

MENSURATION.

Oral and Written Exercises.

1. Estimate and measure in feet and inches the length and width of your teacher's desk; width of blackboard; height of door; height of room.

2. Name points that you think are 10 yd. apart; 50 yd; 10 rd. 20 rd.; 40 rd.; mi. Measure by pacing these distances, to show how near to the actual distance your estimate was.

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3. How many rods in a mile? How many yards? How many feet? 4. In 2 mi. 6 rd. how many yards? How many feet?

5. In 6 rd. 3 ft. how many feet? How many inches?

6. In 58 in. how many feet and inches?

7. In 140 in. how many feet and inches?

8. In 53 in. how many yards, feet, and inches?
9. In 542 in. how many yards, feet, and inches?
10. How many miles and feet in 10,000 ft. ?
11. How many miles, rods, and yards in 5000 yd.?
12. What part of a mile is 88 yd.? 528 ft. ?
13. How many miles and rods in 648 rd. ?
14. Reduce 4 yd. 2 ft. to feet; to inches.
15. Reduce 3 yd. 1 ft. 8 in. to inches.
16. Reduce 1 rd. 4 yd. to yards; to feet.
17. Reduce 6 rd. 3 yd. 2 ft. to feet.
18. Reduce 2 rd. 6 ft. to feet; to inches.
19. Reduce 18 rd. 4 yd. 2 ft. to inches.
20. How many feet in 160 rods 14 ft. ?

21. In 2 mi. 26 rd. how many feet?

22. At the rate of 10 rd. a minute, how many miles and rods can a boy walk in an hour? How many miles?

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