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11. Bring 3840 farthings to pounds. 12. Bring 6529 farthings to pounds.

Facit 4£

Facit 6£ 16 s. 0 d. 4

FEDERAL MONEY.

Note 6.-To reduce cents to dollars, divide them by 100: or, which is the same thing, separate two figures from the right of their number: and all on the left of these will be dollars.

1. Bring 600 cents to dollars. Facit 6 dollars. 2. Bring 1250 cents to dollars. Facit 12 dols. 50 cts. 3. Bring 4575 cents to dollars. Facit 45 dols. 75 cts. Note 7.-To change fourths of a cent to cents, divide them by 4-To change halves of a cent to cents, divide them by 2-To change thirds of a cent to cents, divide them by 3, &c.

Facit 5 cents.

4. Bring 20 fourths of a cent to cents. 5. Bring 125 fourths of a cent to cents.

Facit 31 cts.

Facit 37 cts.

6. Bring 75 half cents to cents.

7. Bring 432 thirds of a cent to cents.

Facit 144 cts.

Note 8.-To change mills to dollars, divide them by 1000: or, which is the same thing, separate three figures from the right of their number, and all on the left of these will be dollars.

8. Bring 4000 mills to dollars.

Facit 4 dols. 9. Bring 25750 mills to dollars. Facit 25 dols. 75 cts. 10. Bring 96532 mills to dollars.

Facit 96 dols. 53 cts. 2 m.

AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT.

1. Bring 75 cwt. to tons.
2. Bring 56 qrs. to cwt.
3. Bring 840 lb. to quarters.
4. Bring 86 oz. to lb.
5. Bring 176 drams to oz.
6. Bring 958 qr. to tons.
7. Bring 9856 lb. to cwt.

Facit 3 T. 15 cwt.

Facit 14 cwt.

Facit 30 qrs.

Facit 5 lb. 6 oz.

Facit 11 oz.

Facit 11 T. 19 cwt. 2 qr.

TROY WEIGHT.

1. Bring 672 oz. to pounds.
2. Bring 145 dwt. to ounces.
3. Bring 560 gr. to dwt.
4. Bring 960 dwt. to lb.
5. Bring 9624 gr. to lb.

Facit 88 cwt.

Facit 56 lb.

Facit 7 oz. 5 dwt. Facit 23 dwt. 8 gr. Facit 4 lb.

Facit 1 lb. 8 oz. 1 dwt.

APOTHECARIES WEIGHT.

1. Bring 672 ounces to pounds.
2. Bring 336 drams to ounces.
3. Bring 91 scruples to drams.
4. Bring 89 grains to
5. Bring 192 to 3.
6. Bring 12660 gr. to ff.

Facit 56 8 Facit 42 Facit 30 31 Facit 499 gr; Facit 8 Facit 22333

LONG MEASURE.

1. Bring 60 miles to leagues.
2. Bring 567 furlongs to miles.
3. Bring 640 poles to furlongs.
4. Bring 286 yards to poles.
5. Bring 52 feet to yards.
6. Bring 588 inches to feet.
7. Bring 2880 poles to leagues.
8. Bring 75 inches to yards.

Facit 20 L.

Facit 70 M. 7 fur.
Facit 16 fur.

Facit 52 P.

Facit 17 yds. 1 ft.

Facit 49 ft.

Facit 3 L.

Facit 2 yds. 0 ft. 3 in.

CLOTH MEASURE.

1. Bring 60 qr. to French ells.
2. Bring 464 qrs. to English ells.
3. Bring 750 qrs. to Flemish ells.
4. Bring 46 qrs. to yards.
5. Bring 480 nails to quarters.

Facit 10 E. Fr. Facit 92 E.E. 4 qr. Facit 250 E.FI. Facit 11 yds. 2 qr. Facit 120 qr.

6. Bring 95 nails to English ells. Facit 4 E.E. 3 qr. 3 na.

LAND MEASURE.

Facit 71 A. 2 R.

Facit 9 R.

1. Bring 286 roods to acres.
2. Bring 360 square perches to roods.
3. Bring 4719 square yards to square perches.

4. Bring 756 square feet to square yards.
5. Bring 1728 square inches to square feet.
6. Bring 966 square perches to acres.

Facit 156 P. Facit 84 yds. Facit 12 ft.

Facit 6 A. 0 R. 6 P.

LIQUID MEASURE.

1. Bring 91 pipes to tuns.
2. Bring 50 hogsheads to pipes.
3. Bring 945 gallons to hogsheads.
4. Bring 163 quarts to gallons.
5. Bring 87 pints to quarts.

Facit 45 T. 1 P.

Facit 25 pi. Facit 15 hhd. Facit 40 gal. 3 qt. Facit 43 qt. 1 pt.

6. Bring 59 hhd. to tuns.
7. Bring 6048 pints to tuns.

Facit 14 T. 3 hhd.
Facit 3 T.

DRY MEASURE.

1. Bring 308 pecks to bushels. 2. Bring 246 quarts to pecks. 3. Bring 300 pints to quarts. 4. Bring 486 quarts to bushels. 5. Bring 384 pints to bushels

TIME.

1. Bring 675 months to years.

Facit 77 bu.

Facit 30 pe. 6 qt.
Facit 150 qt.

Facit 15 bu. O pe. 6 qt.
Facit 6 bu.

Facit 56 Y. 3 mo.

2. Bring 208 weeks to years (supposing 52 weeks to make a year.)

Facit 4 Y.

3. Bring 4386 days to years (supposing 365 days to make a year.)

4. Bring 72 days to weeks.
5. Bring 4440 hours to days.
6. Bring 726 minutes to hours.
7. Bring 360 seconds to minutes.
8. Bring 30240 minutes to weeks.

Facit 12 Y. 6 D. Facit 10 W. 2 D.

Facit 185 D.

Facit 12 h. 6 min.
Facit 6 min.
Facit 3 W.

PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.

1. How many shillings are there in 20 pounds?

Ans. 400.

2. What number of pounds do 65 shilling make?

Ans. 3£ 5 s.

3. How many cents are there in 65 dollars?

Ans. 6500.

Ans. 34.

4. In 3400 cents how many dollars? 5. How many quarters of a cent are there in 96 cents?

Ans 384.

Ans. 120.

6. How many cents are there in 480 quarters of a cent? 7. What number of half pence do 45 pence make?

Ans. 90.

8. How many three pences are there in 10 shillings?

Ans. 40.

9. How many six pences are there in 6 shillings?

Ans. 12.

10. How many shillings are there in 18 three pences?

Ans. 4 s. 6 d.

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11. How many pennyweights are there in 50 grains? (Troy Weight.) Ans. 2 dwt. 2 gr.

12. How many ounces are there in 15 pounds? (Troy Weight.)

Ans. 180. 13. In 86 drams, how many ounces? (Avoir. Wt.) Ans. 5 oz. 6 dr.

14. In 5 tons how many hundred weight? (Avoir.

Ans. 100.

Wt.)
15. How many scruples are there in 15 drams?

Ans. 5.

16. How many ounces are there in 14 pounds? (Apoth. Weight.) Ans. 168.

17. How many inches are there in 12 feet? Ans. 144. 18. In 25 furlongs how many miles? Ans. 3 m. 1 fur. 19. How many nails are there in 3 quarters of a yard?

Ans. 12.

20. How many English ells are there in 75 quarters of a yard?

Ans. 15.

21. How many square yards are there in 37 square Ans. 4 yd. 1 ft.

feet?

22. In 125 roods, how many square perches?

Ans. 5000.

23. In 79 pints, how many quarts? Ans. 39 qt. 1 pt. 24. How many gallons are there in three hogsheads?

Ans. 189.

Ans. 225.

25. In 900 pecks, how many bushels?
26. How many minutes are there in 360 seconds?

Ans. 6.

27. How many days are there in 12 weeks? Ans. 84.

COMPOUND ADDITION.

Compound addition is the adding of sums or quantities which consist of several denominations.

RULE.

Place the sums or quantities so that the numbers of the same denomination may stand directly under each other, and form a separate column; then add up the several columns, successively, beginning with the one of the lowest denomination: if the amount of either of

the columns be not as much as 1 of the next higher denominations, set it down; but if it be, reduce it to that denomination, and add the number it contains of said denomination into the column of the same.

If a remainder occur on reducing the amount of any column, set it under that column.

PROOF: as in Simple Addition.

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