FURNISHING A DOLL-HOUSE Any one of the following articles for furnishing dollhouses may be bought for 10 cents, or 15 cents, or for 25 cents, according to size and quality: 1. Hazel's doll-house has a parlor, a sitting-room, a kitchen, and three bed-rooms upstairs. Her brother bought for the parlor a 25-cent carpet, a 15-cent table, a 15-cent candlestick, a 25-cent cuckoo clock, and 3 chairs at 10 cents each. What was the cost of all? 2. Her mother bought for the sitting-room 3 pictures at 10 cents each, a couch at 25 cents, a small table at 15 cents, 4 chairs at 10 cents each, and 2 fur rugs at 15 cents each. What was the cost of all? 3. Her sister bought for the kitchen a table at 25 cents, a kitchen cabinet at 25 cents, a mirror for 15 cents, a set of dishes at 15 cents, 6 chairs at 10 cents each, and a small table at 10 cents. Find the cost of all. 4. Her father bought for the bed-rooms 3 beds at 25 cents each, 6 chairs at 10 cents each, 3 dressers at 25 cents each, 3 mirrors at 15 cents each, 6 pictures at 10 cents each, 3 wash-bowls and pitchers, a bowl and pitcher together costing 25 cents, and 6 fur rugs at 15 cents each. Find the total cost of the bed-room furniture. 5. Hazel bought a yard of denim for carpets at 25 cents, and 15 cents' worth of Swiss for curtains, 5 little dolls at 15 cents each and a doll carriage for 95 cents. How much did Hazel pay for all? FURNISHING A DOLL-HOUSE 153 1. How much in all did Hazel's brother, mother, sister, father, and Hazel herself spend on furnishing the dollhouse? 2. The cost of the doll-house itself was 375 cents. How much money was spent for the house and its furnishings? 3. If Hazel's brother had saved of the cost of all, including the cost of the house itself, by making as much of the house and furniture as he could, how much would he have saved? 4. What would be the cost of each of the articles in the first column on the opposite page at 15¢ apiece? 5. A toy-dealer bought the articles of the first column in large quantities, at 8 cents apiece and sold them at 15 cents apiece. How much did he gain on 5 of each of these articles? On 8 of each? On 10? On 12? 6. The dealer paid 60 cents a dozen for a dozen of each of the articles of column 2. How much did he pay for them? 7. He sold 10 cuckoo clocks, at 15 cents each, 11 pictures at 12 cents each, and all 12 of each of the last 3 articles at 15 cents each. How much did he gain on all? 8. A dealer bought a dozen of each article of column 1, at 12 cents each, 10 of each article of column 2, at 10 cents each, and 9 of each article of column 3, at 8 cents each. How much did he pay for all? 9. He sold the articles of column 1 at 25 cents each, 9 of those of column 2 at 20 cents each, and 8 of those of column 3 at 15 cents each. How much did he receive for all? The rest were broken and he did not sell them. How much did he gain on all that he sold? 1. Review pages 45 and 46. 2. A carriage cost $425; a horse $246. How much more did the carriage cost than the horse? square feet; those of a second room contain 159 square feet less. How many square feet in the second room? From 444 sq. ft. take 159 sq. ft. 4. A man's salary is Explain how each figure of the difference is found. Prove the result correct. $2650 a year; if his expenses for the same time are $2075, how much does he save in one year? Test by adding. 5. One ship sails 645 miles in 3 days. Another sails 712 miles in the same time. How much farther does the second sail than the first? At the same rate how much farther would it sail in one day? In 9 days? 19. At an election the successful candidate received 913 votes, and the unsuccessful candidate 658 votes. Find the majority of the former. Test. EXERCISES IN SUBTRACTION 1. Subtract 4586 from 6352. 5,12,14,12 From 6352 155 The small numbers written above the figures of 6352 show how to think 6352 into parts to subtract 4586 from it. The numbers mean that 52 = 40 + 12. Tell where the 14 above the 4 comes from; the 16 above the 7; the 12; the 6. 1. A tank that holds 3324 gallons lacks 1576 gallons of being full. How many gallons does it contain? From 3324, minuend take 1576, subtrahend 1748, difference, or remainder Explain how each figure of the difference is found. 2. One year a grocer sold 17,206 dozen eggs and the next year 21,119 dozen. How many more dozens did he sell the second year than the first? 3. Find the unknown number and test. Subtrahend. Difference or Remainder. Minuend. 4. During the year 1897, 2321 immigrants went to live in Louisiana and 1872 went to live in Texas. How many more went to Louisiana than to Texas? 5. The battleship New York takes the place of 8200 tons of water when it is afloat; the battleship Texas, of 6315 tons. How much more water does one ship displace than the other? 6. The coast line of North America is 24,040 miles; that of South America, 13,600 miles; and that of Europe, 17,200 miles. How many more miles of coast line has North America than South America? North America than Europe? Europe than South America? 7. In 1896, 6511 horses were brought into this country from British North America; in 1897, 4777. How many more were brought in in 1896 than in 1897? |