SECTION III. SUBTRACTION. Problems. Find the difference between the numbers in the following problems; read each term and each remainder : 15. How many feet are 350725 feet 57275 feet? 16. Take 123783732 bushels from 143287890 bushels. 17. 307040654 quarts 9073473 quarts = how many? 18. From 150723045 pounds take 98765432 pounds. 19. How many are 2098034 barrels 909725 barrels ? 20. Subtract 253702654 tons from 918374657 tons. 21. 340760560 yards 234567468 yards yards? 123040506 feet less 9080708 feet? = how many 22. From three hundred million, five hundred six thousand, twenty-four take ninety million, fifty thousand, nine. 23. Subtract ninety million, eight hundred thousand, six hundred nine from seven hundred three million, fiftyfive. Find the difference and read the remainder of— 2002. 34. 600040 - 605; 1000000 — 1001; 20000000 35. From 50050005 take 60606; and 505 from 40404. 36. How many are 3000000 less 30003? 4000000 less 5? 37. Subtract 25 from 25000000, and 750 from 150000000. 38. Find the difference between 605073 feet and 9645 feet. 39. 6336000 inches less 31680 inches are how many? 40. What is the remainder of $25000750 $300875? 41. How many are 30050235 quarts 60546 quarts? 42. 32525007 yards - 75000 yards are how many yards? 43. Take six million, sixty-six thousand, sixty-six from seventy million, fifty thousand, thirty. 44. Subtract four million, fifty thousand, fifty from seven hundred million, six hundred thousand, five hundred. 45. The minuend is eight hundred million, eight hundred thousand, eight hundred, and the subtrahend is seven million, seven thousand, seven. What is the difference? 46. How many tons are 200050000 tons less 725005 tons? 47. If the subtrahend is sixty million, six, and the minuend seven hundred million, seventy thousand, seventy, what is the remainder? 48. What is the remainder, if the minuend is three hundred thirty million, thirty thousand, thirty and the subtrahend is four million, forty thousand, forty-four? 49. What number increased by 23075 will become 10000000? What number increased by 50005? 50. What number must be taken from 7300705 to give a remainder of 97636? 51. What number must be added to 30075 to make 30075000? To make 500000005? 52. The sum of two numbers is 20050700, and the less number is 78205. What is the greater? 53. The sum of two numbers is 90050700, and the greater number is 70505075. What is the less? 54. America was discovered by Columbus in 1492. How many years have passed since that time? 55. The Revolutionary War commenced in 1775, and ended in 1783. How many years did it last? 56. Washington was born in 1732, became president in 1789, and died in 1799. How old was he when he became president, and how old when he died? 57. If you subtract 203040 ten times from 5000000, what will each remainder be? 58. One year a cotton-factory turned out goods that were worth $225000, and the expenses of making them were $192275. What were the profits? 59. A builder agreed to put up a row of houses for $125000. The materials and work cost him $116250. How much would he gain? 2* 60. A farmer bought a farm for $12500, and paid on it $7525 cash. How much did he still owe? 61. Into a water-basin that could hold 5000000 gallons of water there ran 3010075 gallons. How nearly full was it? 62. The distance from the earth to the moon is about 240000 miles, and from the earth to the sun about 93000000 miles. How much further is it to the sun than to the moon? 63. A man put $13230 in two banks. If he put $9225 in one bank, how many dollars did he put in the other? 64. If a bushel of timothy-seed contains 41823360 grains, and a bushel of clover-seed 16400960, how many more grains of timothy-seed than of clover-seed are in a bushel? 65. If a city which contained 832507 inhabitants ten years ago now contains 935765, how many has it increased? Problems Combining Addition and Subtraction. NOTE.-Numbers connected by the sign + are to be united in one sum before subtracting the numbers connected or preceded by the sign 1. From the sum of 17395 and 4938 take 9378. 2. To the difference between 10724 and 7859 add 7294. 3. How much is the sum of 90807 and 909 diminished by 89017? Of 375919 + 909 — 99099? 4. What is the result of 10278 - 7289 added to 9827 +10278? Of 90807 90840608 — 709? 5. What number of feet of boards must be taken from 1725 feet to leave 500 feet more than 928 feet? 6. How many dollars must be added to $2750 to make a sum of money $275 less than $3265? 7. To the difference between 9753 yards and 3579 yards add their sum. From their sum take their difference. 8. The sum of three numbers is 8765 miles, and two of them are 2783 miles and 5296 miles. What is the third number? 9. If the sum of four numbers is $38765, and three of them are $12678, $9273, and $15987, what is the fourth? 10. A man was 21 years old in 1832, and he lived until he was 62 years old. In what year did he die? 11. A drover bought 750 sheep from one stock-farmer and 375 sheep from another, and then sold 467 sheep. How many had he remaining? 12. Three men bought a piece of ground for $8500. If the first paid $2725, and the second paid $2875, what remainder was there for the third to pay? 13. A merchant began business with $18450. In the first year he gained $1875, and in the second year he lost $3225. What was he then worth? 14. A cistern receives 1525 gallons by one pipe and 785 gallons by another, and discharges 1278 gallons by a third. How much does it then contain? 15. A real-estate agent bought a farm for $7500, put up fences that cost $275, and buildings that cost $1228, and sold it for $11524. How much did he gain? 16. An agent bought a piece of ground for $5000, put on it improvements that cost $675, and sold it at a loss of $487. What was the selling price? 17. A grain-dealer had 20015 bushels of grain after selling 8124 bushels and buying 9283 bushels. How many bushels had he at first? 18. A span of horses cost $1300, a carriage $450, and a set of harness $175. How much less than the horses did the carriage cost? The harness? The carriage and the harness? What was the entire cost? |