3. Change .375 to a common fraction and to its lowest MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES IN DECIMALS. 1. What is the sum of one-tenth, one hundredth, and forty-seven thousandths? 2. What is the difference between seven hundredths and eight thousandths? Ans. .157. Ans. .062. 4. Multiply eighty-four hundredths by forty-seven tenthousandths. 5. Divide two by four-tenths. Ans. .003948. 6. Divide eighteen thousandths by six millionths. 7. From seven-tenths take four millionths. Ans. 3000. Ans. .699996. 8. Paid $480 for a piece of land at $ 62.50 per acre; how many acres were there? Ans. 7.68. 9. What cost 8 acres of land at $ 68.75 per acre? 10. What cost 6.75 lb. of coffee at $.24 per lb.? 11. How many casks each holding 37.5 gallons can be filled with 1687.5 gallons of wine? 12. Bought 6.5 tons hay at $ 16.875 per ton; what was the entire cost? Ans. $109.6875. 13. What common fraction is equal to the sum of .625 and .0625? Ans. 1. 14. When $18.5625 is paid for 148.5 yds. of cloth, what is the cost per yard? 68 Ans. 6. 15. What will 17 pairs of boots cost at $10 875 per pair? 16. Change .68 to a common fraction. 17. Change 5.25 to a common fraction. 100 18. How many pairs of shoes at $1.25 can be purchased for $ 45? 19. How many pounds of sugar at $.18 per pound can you buy for $6.12? Ans. 34. 20. What will 12 bales of cotton cost, each bale weighing 5.25 cwt. at $46.50 per cwt.? 21. If .625 of a ton of coal cost $5.75, what will one ton cost? Ans. $9.20. 22. What cost .875 of a ton of coal at $12 per ton ? 23. Ans. $10.50. What will 8.75 cords of wood cost at $ 10 per cord? 24. If a boat will sail 7.5 miles in 1 hour, how far will she sail in 9.75 hours? 25. Divide one hundred by one hundredth. 26. Multiply one thousandth by one thousandth. 27. If 9564.75 rods of wall can be built in 87.75 days, how many rods can be built in one day? Ans. 109. 28. I have a room 15.50 feet wide, 16.75 feet long; how many square feet does the floor contain? Ans. 259.625. 29. How many square yards of carpeting would it take to carpet the above room? 30. How much would the above carpet cost at $ 1.75 per yard? 31. it cost at $ 2.50 per cwt.? Ans. $41.88. 32. A ship carries 725 bales of cotton, each bale weighing 400 pounds; how much will the freight amount to at $.0125 pcr pound? UNITED STATES MONEY. 170. UNITED STATES MONEY, sometimes called Federal Money, is the currency of the United States. NOTE. The terms eagle and dime are seldom or never used in computation; eagles and dollars being read collectively and called dollars, and dimes and cents being called cents; thus, 3 eagles and 5 dollars are called $35, and 4 dimes and 3 cents are called 43 cents. When mills are written with dollars and cents they are set in the third place at the right of the period; thus, thirty-five dollars, forty-three cents, and seven mills, expressed in figures, is $35.437. 171. A coin is a piece of gold, silver, or other metal, stamped by authority of the General Government, to be used as money. 172. The coins authorized by our Government, and stamped at the U. S. Mint, are the following: 170. What is United States Money? Repeat the Table. Are the terms eagle and dime much used? How are eagles and dollars read? Dimes and cents? What place do mills occupy? Illustrate. 171. What is a coin? Also of copper and nickel, we have the One Cent, Three Cent, and Five Cent Pieces, called minor coins. NOTE 1. The mill is not coined. NOTE 2. The silver half-dime, three-cent piece, old silver dollar and bronze two-cent piece are no longer coined. The trade dollar is especially designed for the China and Japan trade. NOTE 3. The greater part of the currency in general use in this country consists of Treasury Notes and Fractional Currency, issued by Government, and Notes issued by the National Banks. Operations in United States Money are performed precisely like those in Decimal Fractions, the dollar being considered the UNIT. Therefore no special rules are needed. PRACTICAL EXAMPLES. 1. Paid $12.50 for a barrel of flour, $ 2.375 for a box of sugar, $17.875 for a tub of butter, and $5.25 for a cheese; what did I pay for all? Ans. $38. OPERATION. $12.50 Ans. Having set dollars under dollars, cents under cents, etc., add as in Art. 164, and set the sum below, remembering that the point, or period, should be placed directly under the points in the numbers added. 172. What gold coins are authorized by our Government? What silver coins? What other coins? What is said of the mill? What of the trade dollar? What of paper money? How are operations in U. S. Money performed? 2. Bought a coat for $ 21.75, a vest for $5.35, a pair of pantaloons for $ 8.40, a hat for $ 5.25, a pair of boots for $ 7.50, and various other articles for $12.75; what must I pay for all? 3. A farmer paid $ 125.50 for a pair of oxen, $ 52 for a cow, $ 350.75 for a horse, and $45.25 for a harness; how much did all cost? Ans. $573.50. 4. A merchant in returning from the city found he had expended $1050.375 for dry goods, $ 850.75 for groceries and $250.875 for hardware; what was the amount of his purchases? 5. A broker has $ 19505.00 in one bank, $ 4550.50 in another bank, and $ 6750.37 in another; how much money has he in the three banks? Ans. $30805.87. 6. The property of a gentleman is divided as follows; he has $5750 in bank stock, $3100.50 in notes at interest, a manufactory worth $ 19587, two farms, one worth $ 5780 and the other twice as much, and $ 6850.75 due him on accounts; how much is he worth? 7. A man who owed $87.37, paid $16.52; how much did he still owe? OPERATION. 87.37 1 6.5 2 Having set the less number under the greater, dollars under dollars, etc., subtract as in Art. 165, remembering to place the point in $7 0.8 5, Ans. the remainder under the points in the minuend and subtrahend. 8. Paid $ 175.625 for a pair of oxen, and $ 132.375 for a horse; how much more did I pay for the oxen than for the horse? Ans. $43.25. 9. A gentleman purchased a city residence for $ 19570, which was $8957.75 more than his country place cost him; what did his country place cost him? 10. A drover paid out for cattle $5767.50; he received for the same lot, besides expenses of taking them to market, $ 6530; how much were his profits? Ans. $762.50. |