1. A family had an annual salary of $2500. They spent 30% for food, 15% for rent, 3% for fuel, 10% for wages, 10% for clothing, 5% for books and travel, 5% for charity and insurance. If they saved the rest how much did they save? Find the sum spent for food, rent, etc. 2. The next year the same family wished to have more money for books and travel and yet save the same amount. This year they spent 25% of their salary for food, 15% for rent, 3% for fuel, 10% for clothing, and 5% for charity and insurance. How much more money did they save for books and travel? 3. Find the cost of furnishing a bedroom, if the following articles were bought: Rug, $4.50; bed and spring, $6.50; mattress, $4.75; 2 pillows @ $2.50; 4 sheets @ $.75; 3 pairs of pillow cases @ $.50; 1 pair blankets, $4.00; 1 spread, $1.25; 1 bureau, $8.50; 2 chairs @ $2.00. 4. Find what per cent the cost would have been increased if the following articles had been purchased: 1 rocker, $3.75; 1 table, $6.00; 1 washstand, $4.75; 1 toilet set, $3.25; doz. towels, $1.60. 5. The following articles were bought for the diningroom: 1 rug, $8.00; 1 table, $13.50; 6 chairs @ $3.00; 1 side board, $12.19; 1 serving-table, $5.75; 2 yd. table linen, @ $1 a yard; 2 yd. table linen @ $1.20; 1 doz. napkins, $1.50; 1 doz. nakpins, $2.00; 2 tray cloths @ $.75 each. The cost of furnishing the dining-room was what per cent of the cost of furnishing the bedroom? There are 6. The dining-room table is 42 in. square. 3 extra leaves, each 10 in. wide. Give the dimensions of the table when the three leaves are used. 7. What must be the width and length of the table cloth to allow it to hang down 9 in. on each side? 8. The sheets had a 3-in. hem at the top and bottom and were 2 yd. long when finished. How many sheets could be made from 17 yd. of sheeting? 1. Three men, A, B, and C, formed a company with a capital of $8000. B put in 4 times as much as A, and C 3 times as much as A. How many dollars did each put in? 2. The sum of 2 numbers is 99, and the greater is twice the less. What are the numbers? 3. Divide the number 88 into three parts, so that the second shall be 3 times the first, and the third 4 times the first. 4. Four men have together $480. B has 4 times as much as A; C has 6 times as much as B, and D has as much as C. How many dollars has each? 5. A certain number added to 7 times itself equals 64. What is the number? 6. A company of 300 persons consists of men, women, and children. There are 2 times as many children as men, and 3 times as many women as men. How many women are there? 7. A man bought an equal number of lemons and oranges for $6.25. For the lemons he paid 2 each, and for the oranges 3o each. How many of each did he buy? 8. The larger of 2 numbers is 5 more than the smaller, and their sum is 17. What are the numbers? 9. Divide 20 in two parts so that the larger part may be 4 more than the smaller part. 10. Anna is one-half as old as Mary, and the sum of their ages is 21. What is the age of each? 11. The difference between two numbers is 7, and their sum is 23. What are the numbers? 12. Three men are in business together. Divide their gain of $9000 in the proportion of 3, 5, and 7. 13. Two men bought an automobile for $2400. If one man paid $3 to the other man's $5, how much did each pay? 14. Separate 153 into parts proportional to 8 and 9. 1. Guess at the length of the room. How great a mistake did you make. Measure the length. 2. Walk the length of the room counting your steps. Find the length of your steps. 3. Estimating distances by counting the steps is called pacing. A pace is usually 3 feet. less than a pace was the length of your step? number of How much 4. Pace the width of the room. How many feet wide did you make it? Measure the width. How near was your estimate to the correct distance? 5. Make two marks on the floor 1 rod apart. Pace the distance until you can correctly estimate a rod, 2 rods, 3 rods, etc. 6. Cut a string 165 ft. long. How many rods long is it? Call this your measuring string. 7. Estimate by pacing the distance from one street to another. With your measuring string measure the distance, correcting your error if any. 8. Using your measuring string find some object 20 rd. from the schoolhouse. What part of a mile is it? 9. In the same way find an object that is 40 rd. distant. Find one that is 80 rd. distant. One that is 160 rd. distant. In each case tell what part of a mile it is. 10. Since the square rod is a common unit of measure, mark off on the floor a square rod. Study it closely till you have formed a mental picture of its size. This is called visualizing it. 11. Without measuring mark off in the yard a square rod. Measure it to correct your error. 12. In some park or vacant lot mark off a rectangle 16 rd. 10 rd. or 20 rd. x 8 rd. This is 1 acre. X 13. Without measuring estimate how much more or less than an acre of land there is in the school yard. Measure and see if you made any error. The standard of value in the U. S. is the dollar. The mill is not coined, but is expressed as a tenth of a cent. The coins of the U. S. are made of bronze, nickel, silver, and gold. 12 pence The standard of value in England is the pound or sovereign. The farthing is not coined but is expressed as a fraction of a penny. The coins of England are made of copper, silver, and gold. The names and values of coins in Canada are the same as in the United States. A shilling is equal to $.24 and a pound to $4.8665. In estimating equivalents we call the shilling 25 and the pound $5. 1. How many cents are there in 25 dollars? In 25 eagles? 2. How many pence are there in 25 shillings? In 25 pounds? 3. Change 144 pence to shillings. Change 80 shillings to pounds. 4. How many shillings are there in sovereign? 5. Change £1 3s. to pence. 6. About what is the value of $100 in pounds sterling? What is its exact value in pounds and hundredths of a pound? 7. How much U. S. money will it take to pay a debt in London of £40 8s.? 12) 8. Change £8 12s. 8d. to United States money. 8d. = .666shillings. 12.666s. = .6333+ pounds. Hence £8 12s. 8d. equals £8.6333+. Since 1 pound equals $4.8665, 8.633 pounds must equal 8.6333 X $4.8665. 20)12.666+ £8.6333+ 1. Change $115.50 to English money. $115.50 $4.8665 = 23.733+, the number of pounds. = 14.66s. = = 2. Give the approximate equivalent in pounds of $500. Reduce to English money to the nearest penny: 3. $7.25 4. $36.15 5. $120.10 6. $2000 The standard of value in Germany is the mark which is equivalent in value to $.2385, approximately $.25. 7. Change 1000 marks to its exact equivalent in U. S. money. To its approximate equivalent. 8. A traveler carried $238.50 to Berlin. When changed to marks, how many would he have? 9. A German laborer received 25 pfennigs an hour, and worked 9 hours a day for 30 days. His wages for the whole time is equivalent to how much U. S. money? 100 pfennigs equal a mark. The standard of value in France is the franc, which is equivalent in value to $.193, approximately $.20. In Italy the standard of value is the lira, of the same weight and value as the franc. 10. Find to the nearest cent the value of 500 lira. Of 1500 francs. 11. Merchandise invoiced at 120 lira was imported from Italy. Find to the nearest cent its value in U. S. money. 12. The toll on vessels passing through the Suez Canal is 8 francs a ton. How many francs must be paid by a vessel carrying 3956 tons? Find its equivalent in U. S. money. 13. One dozen cloaks invoiced at 600 francs was received from Paris and 300 yd. of carpeting, invoiced at 6s. a yard, was received from London. Find to the nearest cent the value of all in U. S. money. |