1. 4833; 7533; 40163; 8516. 2. 470 125; 846 125; 5013; 80 ÷ 14%. 3. 96 × 97; 88 × 99; 97 × 95; 94 × 96. 4. 93 X 98; 87 X 96; 85 X 94; 95 × 87. 5. 996 × 994; 987 × 992; 986 × 995; 983 × 998. 48 × 52; 67 X 73; 84 X 96. 6. 36 X 44; 91 × 109; 194 × 206; 1020 × 980. 64 82 × 42; × 84; 89 × 79. 10. 4897 × 401; 11. 61 × 61; 8 8634 × 105; 8632 × 18. × 8; 12 × 12; 15 × 154. 12. 5 × 12; 6 × 91; 8 × 65; 14 × 84. 13. 4 × 6; 91 × 73; 35 × 63; 41 × 88. Give the proper change in each of the following transactions : Sold. 14. 2 lb. tea @ 62; 6 lb. sugar @ 8. Received. $5.00. 1.00. 5.00. 2.00. 10.00. Find the amount of the following bills of sale : 26. If a family uses 3 pt. of milk a day, what will be the milk bill for the quarter ending June 30? Price of milk 7 a quart. 27. A man bought during the year 5 loads of hay weighing respectively 1 T. 350 lb.; 1860 lb.; 1 T. 640 lb.; 1920 lb.; 1 T. 1290 lb. What did it all cost at $18 a ton? : Find the amount of each of the following sales, and the total amount of all: 1. 600 lb. of coal at $6.40 a ton. 2. 180 lb. 10 oz. of beef at $12.00 a hundredweight. 3. 18 cd. 2 cd. ft. of wood at $6.50 a cord. 4. 76 gal. 3 qt. of molasses at 14 a quart. 5. 16 bu. 3 pk. 5 qt. of strawberries at $1.20 a peck. 6. 1800 sheets of paper at $1.80 a ream. 7. 150 lb. of flour at $6 a barrel (196 lb.). 8. 500 eggs at 28 a dozen. 9. If brass is as heavy as water, and iron is 7.6 times as heavy as water, how many times as heavy as brass is iron? 10. The specific gravity of lead is 11.35, and of platinum wire 21.041. Platinum wire is how many times as heavy as lead? 11. A can do a piece of work in 6 da.; What part of the work can A do in 1 da. ? B can do it in 4 da· in 1 da.? What part can both do in 1 da.? will it take both to do it? 12. If it takes a man 2 da. to do a piece of work, how much of it can he do in 1 da. ? 13. A and B together can build a wall in 6 da. A alone can build it in 9 da. How long will it take B to build it? 14. James has 10 cents, which is as much as Robert has. How much has Robert? 15. A man spent of his month's wages for board, of it for clothing, and had $15 left. What wages did he receive monthly? 16. of of the height of the Washington monument is 37 ft. What is the height of the monument? 17. A man owns of a factory, and sells of his share for $8500. What is the factory worth? 18. A man gave of his estate to his wife, and the remainder was divided among his four sons. The difference between the wife's share and one son's share was $4500. What was the value of the estate, and what was each person's share? 1. A freight train going at the rate of 15 mi. an hour is 2 mi. ahead of a passenger train going at the rate of 25 mi. an hour. How many miles does the passenger train gain on the freight train in one minute? How long will it take the passenger train to overtake the freight train? 2. If a lamp, by burning 4 hours each evening, burns a gallon of kerosene in 3 weeks, how many gallons a week will be needed for a house in which 8 lamps are burned 4 hours each evening? If the 8 lamps continue to be used on an average of 3 hours an evening, how long will a barrel of 42 gallons last? If the average is 2 hours an evening, how long will a barrel last? 3. If an acre of land yields 125 bu. of potatoes, how many acres and square rods will it take to yield 4000 bushels ? 4. If 12 lb. of grass seed are required to plant an acre, how much will be required for a rectangular lawn 10 rd. long, 140 ft. wide ? 5. If 8 bu. of potatoes are required to plant an acre, how much land can be planted with pk.? with 10 bu. 6 pk. ? 6. My gas meter shows that 19,800 ft. of gas have been burned during the past quarter. What must I pay at the rate of $1.60 a thousand feet? 7. In Massachusetts there are in one bushel of oats 30 lb., which is as many pounds as make a bushel in Iowa, and 1 as many pounds as make a bushel in most other States. How many pounds in the bushel in Iowa, and how many in most other States? 8. If a bushel of wheat weighs 60 lb., how many bushels of oats in Massachusetts will weigh as much as 1038 bu. of wheat? 9. How many lengths 68 ft. each are there in a fence 120 rd. long? 10. A flight of stairs has 18 steps, each having a tread of 9 in. and a rise of 7 in. What will the stair carpet cost at 80% a yard? 11. How many rods of fence will it take to inclose a field 37 rd. long, 26 rd. wide? (Draw plan.) 12. At 21 a yard, what will 4 rd. of wire fencing cost? How much will a twenty-rod fence of 4 wires cost? With the same fence, what will it cost to inclose a lot of land 40 rd. long by 150 ft. wide? 1. How many telegraph poles 12 rd. apart are there in a mile? 2. How many posts 12 ft. apart will be needed to inclose a lot of land 240 ft. long and 180 ft. wide? 3. How many posts 6 ft. apart will be needed to inclose a halfacre lot of land 132 ft. wide? 4. How many 2-inch pickets placed 2 inches apart will be required to inclose the above lot? 5. How many paving stones 8 inches square will it take to pave a street 2 rd. long and 40 ft. wide? 6. How many sheets of tin 12 in. by 20 in. will it take to cover two sides of a roof each 24 ft. 6 in. by 13 ft. 6 in., no allowance for waste? 7. If 192 cu. ft. of wood cost $9.00, what is the price per cord? 8. If $12.80 is paid for a pile of wood 15 ft. 6 in. long, 4 ft. wide, 3 ft. 6 in. high, what is the price per cord? 9. How many trees can be planted on an acre of land, if 300 sq. ft. are allowed for each tree? 10. There are 100 sq. yd.? 11. There are sq. yd. in 1 sq. rd. How many square rods in sq. ft. in 1 sq. rd. How many square rods in a piece of land 400 ft. long and 100 ft. wide? 12. How many barrels of sugar in a ton, each barrel weighing 242 pounds? 13. A railroad train went 86 miles in 24 hours. How many miles an hour did it go on the average? 14. If a train runs of a mile a minute, how many minutes will it take to run 48 miles? 15. A man builds 33 rd. of picket-fence in a day. How long will it take him to build a fence around a lot 100 ft. sq. ? 16. A barrel of beef weighing 200 lb. cost $163. cost per pound? What was the 17. At g of a cent apiece, how many dozen eggs can I buy for $60 ? 18. At $0.125 a yard, what will 200 yd. of cloth cost? 19. How many pints in 2.06 bushels? |