16.-A butcher bought a bullock for £27, and sold from it 740lbs. of beef at 7 d. per lb.: how much does he lose? 17.-A grocer buys a chest of tea, containing 75lbs., for £12, and sells it at a profit of £2: find the selling price of 1lb. 18.-If a man earn £1 17s. 6d. weekly, and spend 18s. 94d. per week: how much does he save in two years? 19.-An agent received on Monday, £75 19s. 7d.; on Tuesday, half Monday's amount; on Wednesday, £86 17s. 9d.; on Thursday, two-anda-half times as much as on Wednesday; on Friday, £6 19s 11 d. less than on Monday. What sum must be received on Saturday so that the total receipts may be five thousand pounds? 20. Find the balance, after paying for eight chairs, at 4s. 9d. each; seven ditto at 16s. 6d. each; a sofa at £3, and fender and fire-irons at £1, with a fifty pound note. 21.-My gas bill amouuted to thirty-five shillings, being at the rate of 3s. 6d. per 1000 feet: how many feet of gas were burned? 22.-A trader bought 73 sheep at £2 9s. 6d. each, and 49 horses at £18 each: how much has he left out of twelve hundred pounds? 23. What is the price of four pieces of cloth, each containing 39 yards, at 34d. per yard? 24.-A wished to exchange 172 gallons of brandy, at £1 17s. 4d. per gallon, with B, for ale at 2s. 4d. per gallon: how many gallons of ale should he receive? 25.-Bought a cwt. of sugar for £1 198. 8d.: find the cost of 1lb. 26. A gentleman has a yearly income of £240, and wishes to save £60 per year: how much may he spend, on an average, daily? 27. Which is the cheaper coat, No. 1, that costs £2 16s., and lasts two years, or No. 2 which costs £2 5s. and lasts 18 months? 28. A gentleman gave £20 2s. to be be distributed in the following way: 28. 6d. to each of 60 old men, 2s. 4d. to each of 68 old women, and the remainder among 160 boys. Find the amount of a boy's share. 29. Divide £80 among five women and ten men, giving each man twice as much as a woman: what will a woman receive? 30.-To attend a concert 108 persons pay 2s. 6d. each, 250 pay 28. each, and 300 1s. each; the expenses amount to £30 5s. 94d.: find the gain. 31.-A regiment consisted of 967 privates and 55 officers, the privates received 18. 24d. and the officers 7s. 104d. per day: what will the pay of the regiment come to in a week? 32.-Purchased a box of oranges, containing 480, for £1 2s., and sold 180 of the best at 1d. each, and the remainder at 9d. per dozen: find the amount of profit. 33.-A manufacturer employs 100 men, 86 women, and 35 boys; the men and women work ten hours and the boys five hours per day during six days of the week; each man receives 5d. per hour, each woman 34d. per hour, and each boy 14d. per hour: what is the amount of wages paid in half a year? 34. A schoolroom contained thirteen windows, and in each window there were nine panes of glass, costing 2s. 74d. each: find the entire cost. 35. Find the value of a gross of slates, at 24d. each. 36. In a school there are six classes; in the first class there are 35 pupils, in the second 42 pupils, in the third 57 pupils, in the fourth 47 pupils, in the fifth 39 pupils, and in the sixth 27 pupils; the weekly fee in the first two classes is 5d., in the third and fourth classes 4d., and in the last two classes 3d. Find the total fees received in a fortnight. 37.-A person spends £1 7s. 11d. per day, and by so doing saves £7 18s. per quarter: what is his yearly income? 31.--If the income tax was 7d. in the pound: what sum would be paid on an income of £250 a year? 39.-A gentleman paid £14 98. 7d. as income tax, yearly, being at the rate of 5d. in the pound: on how many pounds did he pay? : 49.-A gentleman smokes a threepenny cigar daily find the cost for a year, and how many pounds of coffee it would buy at 1s. 9d. per lb. 41.-At an exhibition three pounds, two shillings and six pence was received: how many visited it at a charge of three half-pence each? 42.-If a girl receive a threepenny-piece every week: what amount would she receive in two years? 43.-How many oranges at two for three half-pence can be bought for five shillings? 44.—What shall I have to pay for a score lbs. of potatoes, at three farthings a lb. ? 45.-I laid out eighteen pence in purchasing apples, at three halfpence per lb.: how many lbs. did I buy? 46.-Find how many fourpenny pieces there are in three ten pound notes, two sovereigns, five half-sovereigns, one crown, four half-crowns, and one florin. 47.-Find the value of a purse containing the following coins: One guinea, three sovereigns, five half-sovereigns, three half-crowns, one florin, a sixpence, and a threepenny-piece. 48.-At a collection there were given one five pound note, twelve sovereigns, ten half-sovereigns, eighty half-crowns, fifty-one florins, four hundred and eighty-nine shillings, one thousand, three hundred and fourteen sixpences, four hundred and thirty fourpenny-pieces, one thousand, six hundred and forty-nine threepenny-pieces, one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five pence; one thousand, two hundred and seventy. three half-pence, and two farthings: find the total amount given. 49. The prime cost of a thirty-six gallon cask of ale was fifty-four shillings, and eight gallons have been lost by leakage. At what price per gallon must the remainder be sold to realize the cost? 50.-A man died worth property to the amount of seventeen thousand pounds. One-third of this was received by his widow, and the remainder divided equally among his seven sons. What was the amount of a son's share? 51.-A gold digger disposed of a nugget, weighing thirteen ounces, for a fifty pound note: how much more would he have received had he sold it at the rate of three pounds, seventeen shillings and ten pence halfpenny per ounce ? 52. The President of the United States has a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars: how much is that in English money, a dollar being worth four shillings and two pence? 53.-How many chests of tea, each containing thirty-nine pounds, can be bought with seventy pounds, four shillings, the tea being sold at three shillings per pound? 54.-A cash-box was opened and found to contain three five pound notes, nineteen sovereigns, thirteen half-sovereigns, seven half-crowns, thirty-eight shillings, seventy-nine sixpences, and forty-seven threepenny-pieces. What sum must be added, so that when its contents are equally divided among one hundred poor persons, each may receive ten shillings? 55.-A farmer bought thirty-five sheep for forty-five pounds, ten shillings, and re-sold them at a profit of three shillings and six pence each: what amount did he receive for the lot? 56. The expenditure of a mechanics' institute for a year was five hundred pounds, and the income consisted of seven hundred and ninety subscriptions of half-a-guinea; sale of newspapers, thirteen pounds, nine shillings; and sundry receipts, seven pounds, fifteen shillings and eleven pence half-penny: what was the balance due to the treasurer at the end of the year? 57.-A railway company conveyed thirty-seven first-class, nineteen second-class, and one hundred and seven third-class passengers from Burnley to Manchester. The first-class fare was five shillings, secondclass fare three shillings and nine pence, and third-class fare two shillings and three pence half-penny: find the amount received by the company. 58.-A cattle dealer bought seventeen oxen, at thirteen pounds, seven shillings and nine pence each. Two of them died, but the others he sold again, with a profit of three pounds and nine pence half-penny upon each. Find what he gained by the transaction. 59.-A person had in his purse a sovereign, a half-crown, and a florin, and paid out of it for thirteen pounds of sugar, at seven pence halfpenny a pound; and nineteen quarts of milk, at three pence farthing a quart: how much remained in his purse after these payments? 60.-What is the value of seven bales, each bale containing three pieces of calico, and each piece measuring thirty-nine and a half yards, at seven pence farthing per yard? 61.-A manufacturer paid in wages one hundred pounds a week among thirteen boys, eleven girls, and one hundred and twelve men. The boys were paid four shillings and six pence, and the girls three shillings and nine pence a week: find the average amount of a man's wage. 62.-A farmer bought one hundred and seven sheep, at thirty shillings and nine pence each, and re-sold eighty-six of them for one hundred and thirty-three pounds, six shillings at what price each must he sell the remainder, so as to make the entire gain six pounds, six shillings and six pence? 63.-The annual expenditure of a school was four hundred and sixtythree pounds, seven shillings and nine pence. The income consisted of public collections amounting to sixty-eight pounds, five shillings and two pence half-penny, government grants amounting to two hundred and eighteen pounds, five shillings and eight pence. The balance was made up of the school-pence of the children, of whom there were six hundred and seventy-five attending the school. What did each of them pay yearly on the average? 64. The contents of a cash-box amounted to four pounds, and consisted of an equal number of half-crowns, florins, shillings, sixpences, fourpenny-pieces, threepenny-pieces, and pennies: find the number of each kind of coin |