512. Written Problems.

1. A dairyman sold 12 gallons 3 quarts of milk; how many quarts did he sell?

2. From a barrel containing 27 gallons of vinegar, 5 gallons 3 quarts leaked out; how much was left ?

3. A dairyman sold to each of four customers 2 gallons and 2 quarts of milk; how many gallons did he sell to the four?

4. Find the cost of 31 gallons 2 quarts of vinegar at $.09 a quart.

5. Mrs. C. buys every day 1 quart of milk at $.05 per pint; how much does she pay for milk in a common year? 6. How many gallons of milk does Mrs. C. buy in a year?

7. A cow gives 5 quarts of milk twice a day; how many gallons does she give in 20 days?

8. A farmer sold 6 bushels and 1 peck of corn to one man, and 3 bushels 3 pecks to another; how many bushels did he sell to both men ?

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9. rope was cut into 4 pieces, each 13 feet 3 inches long; how long was the rope at first?

10. A farmer gave his horses 3 bushels and 2 pecks of corn in 2 days; how much per day?

II. Find the cost of 3 bushels 2 pecks of peanuts at $.06 per quart.

12. If a train run of a mile a minute, how far will it run in 1 hour?

PARTS OF A DOLLAR

513. Oral Exercises.

1. What part of a dollar is 12 cents? 25 cents? 33 cents? 50 cents? 62 cents? 75 cents? 87 cents?

2. At 4 to the dollar, or 25 cents apiece, give the cost of 16 chickens. 16× $1-$4.

1. If 3 pounds of butter cost of a dollar, what is the cost per pound?

2. Put 14 ounces of salt into quarter-ounce papers; how many papers?

3.

If a boy works for of a dollar a day, how much does he earn in 6 days?

4. How much corn do the chickens get in 8 days when they are given 24 quarts a day?

5. Around a square garden is 280 feet; how long is each side?

6. If of a dollar will pay for a bushel of wheat, how many bushels can be bought for 12 dollars?

7. A merchant paid $33 for 100 bushels of oats; at what price per bushel?

8. At 1 cent for every 2 ounces, what does it cost to send by mail a book weighing 2 pounds?

9. A man works for $15 a week; how much a day? 10. If of a farm is 100 acres, how many acres are in the farm?

II. A farmer sold of his corn and kept the rest, 600 bushels; how many bushels did he sell?

A man spent $31 for a hat, and twice as much for a coat; what did both cost?

13. If a ship sails 15 miles an hour, how far does she go in 40 minutes?

1. Mr. Brown had $12 in paper money, and $31 in coin; he spent $72; how much did he then have?

2. A farmer sowed a 50-acre field in grain of three kinds; 16 acres he sowed in wheat, 163 acres in oats, and how many acres in rye?

3. Three cars are loaded with 43 tons of freight; in one car there are 13 tons, in another 143 tons; how many tons in the third car?

4. Put 12.875 pounds of turnip-seed into ounce packages; how many packages?

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5. In 3 hours a river rose 73 feet; the first hour it rose 3 feet, the second hour 3 feet; how much the third hour?

6. A quart of corn weighs 13 pounds, a quart of oats 1 pound, a quart of meal 11⁄2 pounds. A man feeds his horse on a mixture of meal, oats, and corn, one quart of each; how many pounds does he give the horse?

7. A farmer plowed 363 acres of land in three weeks; the first week he plowed 14 acres, the second week 13 acres; how many acres the third week?

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8. A butcher had 2 quarters of beef; one weighed 73 pounds, the other 723 pounds; he sold 691 pounds in the forenoon, and the remainder in the afternoon; how many pounds did he sell in the afternoon?

9. The minuend is 423+56; the subtrahend is 213+53; what is the remainder?