LESSON 16

1. How many minutes are there in 365 days 5 hours 48.5 minutes?

Find the cost of:

2. 3 doz. collars at 2 for 25%.

3. 25 yd. of cloth at $7.

4. 6 lb. coffee at 2 lb. for 654.

5. 24 yd. silk at $1.25.

6. 30 gal. ice cream at 2 qt. for 65%.

7. 32 lb. butter at 264.

8. 28 picture frames at $§.

9. 12 lb. tea at 75¢.

10. A merchant bought cloth at $7 a yard, and sold it at 95 a yard. How much was his gain on 35 yards? 11. If 9 men do a piece of work in 42 days, how long will it take 14 men to do the same work?

12. If of an acre of land is worth $35, how much is one acre worth? 3 acres?

13. How much will it cost to lay a flagstone sidewalk 50 feet long and 8 feet wide at $1 per square foot.

Make out in proper form the following bill:

14. May 1, 1900, Mr. Thomas Snyder bought of W. R. Toomb, 4 lb. butter @324; 1 ham (14 lb.) at 111; 23 yd. of lace @ 604; 12 doz. oranges at 35; 24 bars soap @61; 2 doz. bananas @ 154; 32 lb. cheese at 16; 5 lb. coffee @ 35; 20 lb. granulated sugar @ 61¢.

15. If 1 lb. 11 oz. of coffee cost 54, find the cost of 8 lb. 15 oz. at the same rate.

16. Write in Arabic notation: MCCXL, M, MDIV, MDCCCXC, XI, MCMI, MMLX.

17. Express in Roman notation: 99, 999, 1099, 1999, 9999, 10500, 669.

LESSON 17

1. In one bin there are of 21 bushels of grain, and in another bin of 16 bushels. How many bushels are there in both bins together?

2. What is the Roman method of notation?

3. What is United States money? Name the gold coins. Name the silver coins.

4. How much will 11 eggs cost at 18¢ a dozen ? 5. Define minuend, subtrahend, remainder.

6. The minuend minus the remainder equals what? 7. The subtrahend plus the remainder equals what? 8. Illustrate by examples your answers to the sixth and seventh questions.

9. If of a pole stands in the mud and in the water, what part of the pole is in the air?

10. What is the length of the pole if the length in the air is 15 feet?

11. If you have .8 of a quantity, how much more is needed to make of the quantity?

12. A conductor collected 95 five-cent fares. Express the amount collected in dollars and cents.

13. Show that multiplication is a short method of getting the sum of equal numbers.

14. A lady bought two articles costing $2 and $13 respectively. How much less than $5 did they both cost her?

15. Tell the meaning of the words, multiplicand, multiplier, product.

16. If of my money is $13, how much is of it?

17. What are of 12? 16? 24? 32? 20? 40?

18. If of a ton of straw is worth $43, how much are 500 pounds worth?

LESSON 18

1. From a piece of cloth containing 341 yards there were sold at one time 10 yards, and at another time 83 yards. How many yards were left?

2. If 1 pecks of nuts cost $1.26, how much will one quart cost?

3. From of 100 take 163.

4. How many square yards of carpet will be needed to cover the floor of a room 18 feet long and 15 feet wide?

How far

5. Two men traveled in opposite directions. One traveled 33 miles an hour, and the other 4 miles. apart were they at the end of 2 hours?

6. Find the cost of 12 barrels of flour if of a barrel cost $3.60.

7. At $31.25 each how many cows will cost $ 906.25 ?

8. The base of a triangular flower bed is 36 feet and the altitude is 40 feet. Find the area.

9. How many feet of fence will be necessary to fence a rectangular lot 1251 feet long and 663 feet wide ?

10. James and John travel in the same direction, James at the rate of 31⁄2 miles an hour, and John 51⁄2 miles an hour. In how many hours will John be 7 miles ahead of James?

4. 2.9+1.6 = 13.

of the distance between two buildings is 16 yards.

What is the distance in feet?

14. A boy picked 8 quarts of berries and sold all except 1 quarts at 4 a pint. How much did he receive for what he sold ?

15. How many peaches can you buy for $ at the rate of 3 peaches for 5¢?

.7?

16. How many hundredths equal .5? .7? .9?

19. At $.14 a yard, how many yards of ribbon can you buy for $.56? If 14 boxes of matches cost $.56, find the cost of one box.

20. At 5 each, how many pencils can you buy for $1.5? 21. If .6 of a yard of silk cost .6 of a dollar, how much will 2.6 yards cost? 22.1 of 5 23. .1 x 5 =

=

26.

.1 x 10 =

30.

.5.05 =

27. 1.3.1 =

31. .64 ÷

4 :

=

34. Define division, dividend, divisor, quotient.

35. If $24 is of my money, how much is of it ? 36. A farmer fed 12 tons of hay to his cattle in 6 weeks. At the same rate, how many tons will he feed in 11 weeks?

LESSON 20

1. If it takes 8 yards to make a dress, how many yards will be needed to make a dozen dresses?

2. At $ a yard, how much will 16 yards of lace cost? 3. Change to thirds: 243, 651, 931, 1281.

4. Change to eighths: 331, 45%, 685, 967.

5. Change to whole or mixed numbers: 42, 86, 144, 306, 128, 441, 528.

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6. If a man earns $2 a day and pays $4 a day for his board, how many days will it take him to save $280?

7. Find the sum of 38 and 29 hundredths; 8 thousandths; 27 hundredths; 9 and 9 hundredths; 39 and 28 thousandths.