Elizabeth and Helen went to cooking-school. They learned to make this breakfast for 8 persons and to find its cost.

They used 4 melons at 7¢ each, 5 pounds of fish at 12¢ a pound, package of puffed rice, at 10¢ a package, 1 quart of potatoes, at 16¢ a peck, a half of a loaf of bread at 5¢ a loaf, 2 pints of cream, at 18¢ a pint, 10 tablespoonfuls of coffee (in all of a pound), at 40¢ a pound, 1 dozen Graham biscuits, at 10¢ a dozen, 1 pounds of butter, at 28¢ a pound, salt, pepper, and lard, amounting to 5¢, and enough fuel to cost 10 cents.

1. What was the cost of each kind of food? Of the whole breakfast? Cost for each person? What would be the cost of this breakfast omitting the melons?

2. Paul and his father went to a restaurant, where they ordered as follows:

2 orders asparagus soup at 15¢ each.

2 orders fresh mackerel at 20¢ each.

2 orders small steak at 45¢ each.

2 orders new potatoes with cream sauce at 15¢ each.

1 order cucumber salad with wafers, 20¢.

1 order lemon ice with ladyfingers, 15¢.

1 order vanilla ice cream, 10¢.

2 orders coffee at 10¢ each.

What was their bill?

This is the plan of a garden in which 1 inch stands for 12 feet.

1. Find in feet the length of the garden. The width. The perimeter.

2. Find in feet the perimeter of the space given to asters; to roses; to ferns; to geraniums.

3. How many 12-foot squares are used for asters? For ferns? For geraniums?

4. There are gravel walks on the division lines between the parts and around the whole garden. How many feet of gravel walk are there around the asters? The ferns? The geraniums? How many feet of gravel walk around the whole garden?

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1. The space given to asters is how many feet long? How many feet wide? How many square feet does it contain?

2. The space given to roses is how long? How wide? How many square feet does it contain?

3. A 12-foot square contains how many square feet? 4. The space given to ferns contains how many 12foot squares? How many yards of walk enclose it?

5. How many square feet are given to ferns?

6. The space given to geraniums contains how many 12-foot squares? How many square feet?

7. Find, in two ways, the number of square feet given to all the different kinds of flowers.

8. A 3-wire fence, 30 feet long, extends along the side of the rose garden. How many feet of wire were used? How many yards?

9. In the geranium garden there are 7 rows of Martha Washingtons with 15 plants in each row, 12 rows of rosegeraniums with 8 plants in each row, and 11 rows of scarlet geraniums with 8 plants in each row. How many plants are in this garden?

10. A gardener is paid $36 per month. How much is that per week?

11. The gardener hires a boy to help him 2 days in the week, at 10 cents an hour, 6 hours a day. How much does the boy earn a week?

12. The plants in the geranium garden (see 9 above), were bought at wholesale and cost 10 cents each. How much did they all cost?

13. The asters were of 5 kinds: yellow, pink, white, shaggy, and mixed. There were 6 rows of each kind with 12 plants in each row. How many plants were in the aster garden?

1. In the plan of a garden on page 110, one inch stands for 8 feet. of an inch stands for how many feet? of an inch stands for how many feet? an inch?

2. Find the length of the plan; the width; the area. 3. What is the length of the garden? The width? 4. What are the dimensions of each of the currant patches? What is the area of each?

5. Find the area of each space given to gooseberries. 6. Find the length of the long middle path; the width, the number of square feet in it.

7. How wide is each of the other paths?

8. Find the length, width, and area of each bean bed. 9. How many square feet in the two lettuce beds?

10. Find the dimensions and the area of each of the spaces given to radishes. How many square feet in all are given to radishes?

11. What are the dimensions of the asparagus bed? What is the area?

12. Answer the same questions for the space given to

peas.

13. Find the dimensions and area of the cucumber bed. 14. What other spaces have the same area?

15. How many square feet in all are given to cabbages? To tomatoes?

16. The parsnip patch is how wide? How long? What is the area? Answer like questions for the carrot patch. 17. The parsnip space and the carrot space together are equal in area to what space?

18. Find the dimensions and the area of the space given to corn; to potatoes.

19. How many square feet in all are given to vegetables?