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1. In £47 5s. 2d. 1 far., how many farthings?

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2. In 118567 farthings, how many pounás, shillings

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3. Reduce £75 to shillings.

4. Reduce 19s. 6d. tc pence.

5. Reduce 15s. 3d. 2 far. to farthings.

Ans. 1500s.

Ans. 234d..

Ans. 734 far.

6. In 48926 grains, Troy Weight, how many pounds, unces, pennyweights, and grains?

Ans. 8lb. 5oz. 18pwt. 14gr.

7. In 3605 pennyweights, how many pounds, ounces, and pennyweights? Ans. 15lb. Ooz. 5pwt. 8. In 1000 ounces, Troy Weight, how many pounds and ounces ?

Ans. 83lb. 4oz.

9. In 4lb. 6oz. 13pwt. 5gr. how many grains?

10. In 10076. 1gr. how many grains?

Ans. 26237gr.

Ans. 576001gr.
Ans. 425 3.

11 In 4 tb 53 13 how many drams? 1. In 1000 grains, Apothecaries' Weight, how many ounces, drams, scruples, and grains? Ans. 23 03 29. 13. In 11521 grains, Apothecaries' Weight, how many pounds? Ans. 2b 03 03 09 1gr. 14. In 873450 drams, Avoirdupois Weight, how many tons? Ans. 1T. 10cwt. 1qr. 23lb. 14oz. 10dr. 15. Reduce 5cwt. 21lb. 4oz. to ounces.

16 Reduce IT. 1cwt. 1dr. to drams.

Ans. 9300 ounces.

Ans. 602113 drams.

17. Reduce 856702 drams to tons.

Ans. 1T. 9cwt. 3qr. 14lb. 7oz. 14dr.

18. In 4355 inches, how many yards?

Ans. 120yds. 2ft. 11in.

19. In 248 miles, how many inches?

Ans. 15713280 inches.

20. How many inches in 360 degrees of 691 miles to each degree, which is the circumference of the earth, uearly. Ans. 1577664000 inches. 21. In 12121212 barleycorns, how many miles? Ans. 63mi. 6fur. 6rd. Oyd. 1ft. 4in. 22. Reduce 12 Ells French to nails. Ans. 288 nails. 23. Reduce 11 Ells English, 3 quarters, to quarters. Ans. 58 quarters.

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24. Reduce 10 Ells Flemish, 3 quarters, 1 nail, to nails,

25. Reduce 4 yards to quarters.

26. In 1000 nails, how many yards?

Ans. 133 nails. Ans. 16 quarters.

Ans. 62yds. 2qr.

27. How many inches in 6 yards, 3 quarters?

Ans. 243 inches.

28. How many square inches in 10 square feet?

Ans. 1440 square inches.

29. In 3 square miles, how many square rods or poles?

Ans. 307200P.

30. In 3 acres, 27 rods, how many square feet?

Ans. 1380304 square feet. 31. In 26025 square feet, how many square roods ? Ans. 2R. 15P. 1611 sq. ft.

32. In 70000 square links, how many square chains?

Ans. 7 square chains.

33. How many square links in 5 acres?

Ans. 500000 square links.

34. In 17 cords of wood, how many cubic feet?

Ans. 2176 cubic feet.

35. In 17 tons of round timber, how many cubic inches? Ans. 1175040 cubic inches.

36. Reduce 17900345 cubic inches to tons of hewn tim

Ans. 207 Tons, 8 cubic feet, 1721 cubic inches.

37. In 1000 cord feet of wood, how many cords?

Ans. 125 cords

38. In 19 cubic feet, how many cubic inches?

Ans. 32832 cubic inches

39. In 16 hogsheads of wine, how many gills?

Ans. 32256 gills.

40. In 10000 gills of wine, how many barrels ? Ans. 9 barrels 29 gallons. 41. Reduce 2 pipes, 7 barrels, 3 quarts of wine, to pints Ans. 3786 pints.

42. Reduce 31752 gills of wine to barrels. Ans. 31 barrels, 15 gallons, 3 quarts

43. Reduce 201600 gills to tuns of wine.

44. Reduce 11 hogsheads of beer to pints.

Ans. 25 tuns.

Ans. 4752 pints.

45. In 100000 pints of beer, how many hogsheads? Ans. 231 hogsheads, 26 gallons. 46. In 10 hogsheads, 1 quart, 1 pint of beer, how many pints? Ans. 4323 pints. 47. In 36 bushels how many pints? Ans. 2304 pints. 48. In 25 chaldrons 29 bushels, how many quarts? Ans. 29728 quarts.

49. In 10000 pints, how many chaldrons ?

Ans. 4ch. 12bu. 1pk.

50. In 1597 quarts, how many bushels?

Ans. 49bu. 3pk. 5qt.

51. In 30 days, how many seconds? Ans. 2592000sec. 52. In 19 years of 3654 days each, how many hour

Ans. 166554 hours

53. In 25 years 6 days, how many seconds?

Ans. 789458400 seconds.

54. How many days from the birth of Christ to Christmas, 1843, allowing the years to consist of 365 days 6 hours? Ans. 673155 days 18 hours.

55. A person was born May 3, 1795. How many days old was he May 3, 1821, paying particular attention the order of leap year? Ans. 9496 days.

56. Suppose a person was born February 29, 1796; how many birthdays will he have seen on February 29, 1844, not counting the day on which he was born ?*

Ans. 11 birth-days.

57. In 3 signs 18 degrees, how many seconds?

Ans. 388800".

58. In 6 signs 9 degrees, how many degrees?

Ans. 1899. Ans. 16° 40'. Ans. 2° 46' 40". Ans. 164735".

59. In 1000' how many degrees?
60. In 10000" how many degrees?
61. Reduce 45° 45′ 35′′ to seconds.
62. In 1000 things, how many dozen?

Ans. 83 dozen and 4 over.

63. How many buttons in 64 dozen?

Ans. 76 buttons.

64. In 80000 tacks, how many gross?

Ans. 555 gross, 6 dozen and 8.

65. In three score and ten years, how many years ?

66. In 15 quires of paper, how many sheets?

67. In a ream of paper, how many

Ans. 70 years.

Ans 360 sheets.

Ans. 480 sheets.

sheets?

* It must be recollected that the year 1800 was a common year, having no 29th of

February.

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