257. Written Problems. 1. From A to C the distance is 406 miles; from B to C the distance is 239 miles. What is the distance from A to B? B 2. John must have 1 000 pounds of cotton picked by Saturday night. By Friday night he has picked 836 pounds. How much must he pick on Saturday? 3. A girl raised 127 chickens and sold 93 of them. How many were left? 4. Two bales of cotton weigh 1000 pounds. One weighs 509 pounds. Find the weight of the other bale. 5. On Thursday Lewis planted 103 rows of corn. In the forenoon he planted 59 rows; how many in the afternoon? 6. Subtract one thousand nine hundred nine from two thousand. 7. A man paid $136 for a horse, and sold him for $155. How much did he gain? 8. From one thousand, subtract each of the following numbers: (1) 301; (2) 907; (3) 896; (4) 263; (5) 759; (6) 917; (7) 49. 9. Find the greatest number of the following ten numbers, and from it subtract each of the smaller numbers: 49, 101, 816, 342, 271, 66, 89, 349, 701, 299. 10. At the end of the first year a merchant had gained $1346; at the end of the second year he had gained $3040; how much was his profit the second year? 261. Oral Problems. 1. Alice had 17 roses; she gave 3 to her teacher, and sent 5 to a sick friend; how many did she then have ? 2. A miner made $11 one week and $10 the next week; he spent all but $5; how much did he spend ? 3. A fisherman caught one morning 9 trout, and in the evening 7; he sold all but 4; how many did he sell? 9+7-4=? 4. If 13 is subtracted from the sum of 9 and 12, what is the remainder? 9+12-13=? 5. To the sum of 6 and 7 add the difference between 25 and 31. 6+7+(31-25)=? 6. Henry read 100 pages in his book in three days; Monday he read 42 pages, and Tuesday 28 pages; how many pages did he read the third day? 263. Written Problems. 1. In a field there are 42 acres, in a second 27 acres, and in a third 47 acres. How many more acres are in the first and second than in the third? 2. A lady bought a bonnet for $6, and a belt for $1.50. How much change did she receive from a tendollar note? 3. A certain train ran 100 miles in three hours. The first hour it ran 35 miles, the second hour 27 miles, and how many miles in the third hour? 4. Subtract one hundred nine from the sum of eighty-seven and thirty-three. (87+33) — 109 = ? 5. Subtract the sum of eighty-one and forty-four from two hundred one. 201- (81+44) = ? 6. Three bales of cotton weigh 1491 pounds. One weighs 487 pounds, another 509 pounds, and the third how much? 7. A farmer had $181; he spent $36 for tools, paid a debt of $43, and had how much left? 8. Three numbers added make 707; one of the numbers is 39, another 99; find the third number. 9. What number added to 196+203 makes the sum 1000? 10. John bought a geography for 90 cents, a slate for 15 cents, and a dictionary for 50 cents. Find what he had left out of five dollars. II. 11. A man paid for two lots $360, and $270. He sold both together for $595. How much did he lose? |