BUYING GROCERIES

1. For Mr. E. G. Smith:

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One barrel spring wheat flour; 30 lb. Graham flour; dozen cans baking powder; 2 lb. cinnamon; 3 lb. crackers; 50 sacks salt. What was the amount of Mr. Smith's bill? How much did the grocer gain?

2. For Mr. G. A. Tanby:

Two pounds gunpowder tea; 50 lb. corn meal; 50 lb. Graham flour, 4 cans tomatoes; 3 cans peaches; 5 cans salmon. What was the amount of Mr. Tanby's bill? What did the grocer gain?

3. For Mr. G. W. Williams:

5 pounds Java coffee; 3 lb. tea; 4 lb. crackers; 1 dozen bars fels-naphtha; 1 barrel winter wheat flour; doz. cans baking powder; doz. cans peas; doz. cans salmon. What was the amount of Mr. Williams's bill? How much did the grocer gain?

4. The following list of goods would cost how much? 50 lb. cinnamon; 25 lb. black pepper; 3 boxes ivory soap; 2 bbl. salt; 6 bbl. spring wheat flour; 1 doz. cans baking powder.

5. How much money would the grocer receive for the list in problem 4?

6. How much would the grocer gain from selling the list in problem 4?

7. Find the cost to the grocer of the following list:

One barrel Graham flour; 1 barrel spring wheat flour; 1 barrel winter wheat flour; 1 barrel straight grade flour; 3 dozen cans baking powder; 2 dozen cans each of corn, tomatoes, peaches, peas, and salmon.

8. How much money would the grocer gain from selling the list in problem 7?

1. School supplies cost $4.75 for each of a family of six children. What was the entire cost?

2. There was bought one month for a boy each item in the above list of boys' clothing for summer. What was the whole cost? What would have been the cost for 4 boys? 3. In October each item in the list of boys' clothing for winter was bought for a boy. What was the whole cost? What would it have been for 3 boys?

4. Each item in the list of girls' clothing for summer was bought for a girl. What was the whole cost? What would it have been for 3 girls?

5. Make other problems from these lists, such as the cost for a family of 2 boys and 3 girls for clothing for winter or for summer; the cost of 2 pairs of shoes, 2 hats, 2 pairs of rubbers, etc.

EXERCISES FOR PRACTICE

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1. How many square yards of carpet will be needed to cover a floor 27 feet long and 24 feet wide?

2. A dog-kennel that is 4 feet high, 2 feet wide, and 4 feet long, contains how many cubic feet?

3. How many feet of fence will be needed to fence a garden 36 yards long and 27 yards wide?

4. How many books, each taking 96 cubic inches, can be packed in a box containing 4608 cubic inches?

9. Anson earned $4.25 each week for 14 weeks. How

much did he earn in that time?

10. Louise bought 14 yards of cloth at 92¢ a yard, 9 yards of ribbon at 45¢ a yard and a piece of lace at 70¢. She gave in payment a 20-dollar bill. How much change should she receive?

1. An excursion steamboat ran from Chicago (C on the map) to Sault (Soo) St. Marie, called the Soo, and marked, SS, on the map, in 20 hours at the rate of 22 miles per hour, and returned by the same route in 19 hours. How far is it by this route from Chicago to the Soo? What was the rate of running on the return trip?

2. A boat ran from the Soo to Duluth, (D) Minn., in 18 hr. at 24 mi. an hr. and returned to the Soo by the same course in 20 hr. How far is it by this course from the Soo to Duluth? Find the rate of running on the return trip.

3. It took a boat 14 hr. running 20 mi. an hr. to go from the Soo to Port Huron (P), Mich. How far is it?

4. It takes a boat 4 hours, running 16 miles an hour, to run from Port Huron to Detroit (Dt), Mich., and 5 hours, running 11 miles an hour, to go from Detroit (Dt) to Toledo (T), Ohio. How far is it from Port Huron to Detroit? From Detroit to Toledo, Ohio?

1. A steamer ran from Toledo to Cleveland (Cl), in 6 hr. from Cleveland to Erie (E), Penn., in 5 hr., and from Erie to Buffalo (B) in 4 hr. The rate of the boat, while running, was 18 mi. an hr.

How far apart are these places? 2. Lake Ontario is 198 miles long. How long would it take a boat running 18 miles an hour to run on a direct line from one end of the lake to the other?

3. How long would it take a boat, running 19 miles an hour, to cross Lake Ontario at its widest part, where it is 57 miles wide?

4. Lake Erie is 60 miles wide at its widest place. How long would it take a boat to sail directly across it at its widest place, at the rate of 8 miles an hour?

5. How long would it take a steamboat, running 16 miles an hour, to run from Bay City (B), Mich., to a point on the shore of Georgian Bay, 232 miles distant?

6. How long would it take to sail from Marquette (Mq.), Mich., directly north across Lake Superior, sailing 8 mi. an hr., if the distance is 178 miles?

7. If the surface of the lakes named in the table above could be changed into rectangles of the same area as the lakes, the rectangles would have the areas given in the second column. If the lengths of these rectangles were as shown in the third column, how wide would they be?