APPLICATION.

14. Divide $52 24cts. between 24 persons.

Ans. $2 17cts. +

15. Bought 40 bushels of wheat for $72 34cts. how much is that a bushel? Ans. $1 80 cts. 8m. +

16. If a man bought a load of hay for $6 that weighed 15 hundred weight, what was it per cwt.?

17. Paid $58 75cts. for 235 yards of muslin.

yard?

Ans. 40cts. What was it a

Ans. 25cts. how much is

Ans. C2cis. 5m.

18. Sold 144 yards of homespun cloth for $90; that a yard?

PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES IN THE FOREGOING RULES.

Of Federal Money.

19. If I add the following sums, viz. $583 18cts. $8431 6cts. 4. $20 14cts. and subtract from their amount $1312 14cts. 6m. what sum will remain ? Ans. $7722 23cts, 3m.

20. If I subtract $125 34cts. from $438 2cts. and multiply the remainder by 4, what will be the result? Ans. $1250 72cts.

21. A person hires a house for $250, he pays his tailor $14 73cts, his shoe maker $18, his fire wood cost him $43-18ets. his butcher's bill is $87 40cts. his baker's $59, and by his trade he clears 500 yearly; is he making or losing money!

Ans. Saves $27 69cts. A teacher, who had 48 scholars, distributed equally among of his number, for their diligence, 8 cents a piece; how much money did he give them?

Ans. $1 28cts.. 23. Calculate the amount of articles in the following bill :

Note-By this weight, jewels, gold, silver, and liquors are weighed.

3. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT.

dwt. ᎧᏃ .

jb.

-Note-By this weight are weighed all coarse and drossy goods, grocery wares, and all metals except gold and silver.

1 pound,

Note-By this weight apothecaries mix their medicines, but buy and sell by Avoirdupois weight.

Note. By his measure are measured distances, or any thing where length is considered, without any regard to breadth.

A hand is 4 inches, and is used in measuring the height of horses.

A fathom is 6 feet, and is chiefly used in measuring the depth of water.
A chain contains 100 links, and is 66 feet, or 4 rods.

LAND, OR SQUARE MEASURE.

Note. This measure is used in reckoning the content of land, or of things that have length and breadth.

Note. This measure is used when things have length, breath, and depth,

Note. This measure is used for beer, cider, wine, &c.

Nole. This measure is used for grain, fruit, salt, &c.

T.

qt. pe.

bu.

Note. By the calendar the year is divided in the following manner :

1 Month, January,

2

T

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

'February
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,

hath 31-days,

28

31

30

31

30

31

31'

30

31

30

31

Or,

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except February alone,

Which hath four and twenty-four,

And every fourth year one day more.

Note. The six hours in each year are not reckoned till they amount to one day: hence, a common year consists of 365 days, and every fourth, called leap year, of 366 days.

When the year can be divided by 4, without any remainder, it is then leap year, in which 2d month (February) has 29 days.

The fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,
Have thirty days to each affix'd,
And every other thirty-one,
Except the second month alone,
Which has but twenty-eight, in fine-
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

12 signs, or 360 degrees 1 great circle of the horizon. Note This table is used by astronomers, navigators, &c.

COMPOUND ADDITION.

Compound Addition teaches to add together several sums or quantities of different denominations.

RULE.

1. Place the numbers of the same denomination under each other and separate the different denominations by a space or by dots.

2. Then begin at the right hand column, and add up as in simple addition: divide the amount by as many of that denomination as will make one of the next greater, set down the remain der (if any) under said column, and carry the quotient to the next, which must be added up and divided in the same manner; and so proceed through all the denominations.

PROOF.

The same as in Simple Addition.