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APPLICATION OF THE FOURS-WEIGHT

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William and Mary went with a camping party and kept

a small grocery store.

They bought for it the following articles:

4 pounds of sugar at 5 cents a pound.

12 pounds of white flour at 4 cents a pound.

10 pounds of Graham flour at 3 cents a pound.
1 pound of tea at 60 cents a pound.

4 pounds of crackers at 9 cents a pound.

1 pound of cinnamon at 40 cents a pound.

1 pound of black pepper at 32 cents a pound.

12 bars of soap at 4 cents a bar.

1. How much did it cost them to buy all the sugar? White flour? Graham flour? Crackers? Soap?

2. They sold the sugar in half-pound packages at 3 cents a package. How much did they receive for all the sugar? Find the gain on all the sugar?

3. They sold the white flour in bags of 4 pounds each, at 5 cents a pound. How many bags of flour did they sell? How much did they receive for it? How much did they gain on it?

4. They sold the Graham flour at 4 cents a pound. How much did they receive for it? Find the gain on it?

5. They sold the tea in quarter-pound packages at 20
cents a package. How much did they receive for it?
How much did they gain on it?

6. The cinnamon was sold in 4-ounce packages, at 12 cents
a package. How much was that for each ounce? How
many packages were there? How much money was received
for all the cinnamon? What was the gain on one pound?
Did they
7. The pepper was sold at 2 cents an ounce.
lose or gain on it, and how much?

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EXERCISES ON TWOS AND THREES

Read the lines across the page, giving answers.

Then

read and answer the questions from the top downward.

2X 4, or 4X2 =?

of 8, or

6÷2 = ?

of 6, or 6÷ 3 =?

2X 2 =?

of 16, or 16÷2= ?

of 12, or 12÷2-?

of 18, or 18÷2- ?

of 16, or 16÷8=? of 12, or 12÷6 =? of 18, or 18÷ 9=? of 14, or 14÷ 7 =? of 22, or 22÷11 =?

2X 7, or 7X2 = ? 2X11, or 11X2 =? 2X10, or 10×2 =? 2×12, or 12×2 =? 2X 1, or 1X2 =?

3X 2, or 2X3=? 3X 4, or 4X3=? 3X. 6, or 6X3=? 3X 8, or 8X3=? 3×10, or 10X3=? 3×12, or 12×3 =? 3X 3=?

of 14, or 14÷2 =? of 22, or 22÷2 =? of 20, or 20÷2 = ? of 24, or 24÷2 = ? of 2, or 2÷2=?

of 20, or 20÷10 = ? 12 of 24, or 24÷12 – ?

-3X 5, or 5×3=?

3X 7, or 7X3=? 3X 9, or 9X3=? 3X11, or 11X3=?

of 30, or 30÷10 = ? 12 of 36, or 36÷12 = ?

of 15, or 15÷ 5=?

3X 1, or 1X3=?

of 3, or 3÷3=?

Pupils may return to this page from time to time and drill briefly upon the facts given here, until they are fully mastered.

18, or 18÷ 9=?

14, or 14÷ 7 =?

22, or 22÷11=?

20, or 20÷10-?

24, or 24÷12-?

6, or 62-?

12, or 12÷ 4 =?

8, or 18÷ 6=? 4, or 24÷ 8=? O, or 30÷10=?

5, or 36÷12=?

or 15÷ 5 =?

or 21÷ 7 =?

or 27÷ 9=?

or 33÷11=?

o time and

y are fully

4 quarters

1 dollar or $1

Answer all you can orally.

1. How many cents equal a nickel?

2 half-dollars

2. How many nickels equal a dime? How many cents equal a dime?

3. How many nickels equal a quarter? How many cents equal a quarter?

4. How many quarters equal a half-dollar? How many dimes equal a half-dollar? How many nickels equal a half-dollar?

5. Which would you rather have, 1 dollar or 2 halfdollars? 1 dollar or 4 quarters? 1 dollar or 10 dimes? 6. What two pieces of money equal a dime?

7. What three pieces of money equal a quarter? 8. What two pieces of money equal seventy-five cents? What three pieces?

9. What two pieces of money equal a dollar? What three pieces? What four pieces?

10. To how many quarters are two dollars equal? Four dollars? Five and one-half dollars?

11. In a shorter way, write: 7 dollars; 9 dollars; 12 dollars; 19 dollars; 20 dollars; 25 dollars; 16 dollars; 1 dollar; 4 dollars.

13. One pound of seeds costs a dollar. What part of a dollar will pay for four ounces?

14. A box of blacking costs a dime. How many boxes can you buy for 60 cents?

ow much can cents? For

a chair that

ent pieces, or

for 25 cents, a did he pay y for them?

any nickels

How many

at part of a

many boxes

USES OF FIVE-TIME

utes are there in half an hour?

or one-quarter, of an hour?

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1. Draw the face of a watch, and fasten to the center two movable hands.

2. Show how far the minute hand moves in an hour. Show how far the hour hand moves in an hour.

3. How many minutes make an hour?

4. How many minHow many in one-fourth,

5. Place the hands to show one o'clock.

6. Show where the hands are at thirty minutes after one, or half past one.

7. Show where the hands are at fifteen minutes after one, or quarter past one.

8. Move the hands to show the time of the opening of school in the morning; the beginning of recess; the closing of school at noon; the opening and closing of school in the afternoon.

9. How many minutes of school are there in the morning before recess? After recess? In the afternoon? 10. What part of an hour is a recess of fifteen minutes. 11. A man works eight hours a day. What part of a day does he work?

12. A man spent 3 months in Iowa, 3 months in Missouri, and 3 months in Arkansas. What part of a year did he spend in each state? In the 3 states?