11. Find the amount of the following gums, viz. 42l. 13s. 5d.-11. 10s.-4. 17s. 8d.-13l. Os. 7d.-19s. 4§d.—271 and 151. 65. £ s. d. 12. Add 304l. 5s. and 0§d.—34l. 19s. 7d—7l. 18s. 5d. -2471. Os. 11d.-19s. 6d. 1gr. and 451. together. Ans. £640 3s. 5d. 13. Find the sum total of 14l. 19s. 6d-11l. 4s. 9d.25l. 108.-4l. Os. 6d.-31. 5s. 8d.-19s. 6d. and Os. 6d. Ans. £60 Os. 5d. 14. Find the amount of the following sums, viz. Forty pounds, nine shillings, Sixty-four pounds and nine pence, Ninety-five pounds, nineteen shillings, Seventeen shillings and 44d. S. d. 15. How much is the sum of Thirty-seven shillings and six pence, Ans. £. 10 Os. 10id. 16. Bought a quantity of goods for 125l. 10s. paid for truckage forty-five shillings, for freight seventy-nine shillings and six pence, for duties thirty-five shillings and ten pence, and my expences were fifty-three shillings and mine pence; what did the goods stand me in? Ans. £. 186 4s. 1d. 17. Six men took a prize, and having divided it equally amongst them, each man shared two hundred and forty pounds, thirteen shillings and seven pence; how much money did the whole prize ameant to ? Ans. £. 1444 Is. 6d. COMPOUND SUBTRACTION, TEACHES to find the difference, inequality or excess, between any two sums of diverse denominations. RULE. Place those numbers under each other, which are of the same denomination, the less being below the greater; begin with the least denomination, and if it exceed the figure over it, borrow as many units as make one of the next greater; subtract it therefrom; and to the difference add the upper figure, remembering always to add one to the next superior denomination for that which you borrowed. |