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22.

What is one seventh of 49 apples?

What is one sixth of 66 oranges ?

23. 80 apples are 8 times what number of apples? 24. 99 are 9 times what number?

25. One man can do a certain piece of work in 25 days; how long will it take 5 men to do it?

26. How many men will reap a field in 6 days, if 54 men can reap it in one day?

27. If one pipe can fill a cistern in 84 hours, in how long a time will 7 such pipes fill it?

28. How many tons of hay can be bought for 60 dollars, at 10 dollars a ton? At 12 dollars a ton? At 15 dollars a ton?

29. If two boats are 50 miles apart, and the one gains on the other 5 miles an hour, in how many hours will they be together?

30. A school, consisting of 120 pupils, is divided into 10 equal classes; how many pupils are there in each class?

31. 3 heifers were bought for 48 dollars; how much were they apiece?

32. If a man earns 8 dollars a week, how long will it take him to earn 48 dollars? '64 dollars?

33. How many cloaks, containing 9 yards, can be made from 63 yards of cloth? From 72 yards? 34. If 51 dollars be divided among 3 men, how many dollars will each receive? 35. For 72 cents, how many pounds of beef can be bought, at 8 cents a pound? At 12 cents?

36. If you should have 31 cents, how many writing-books could you buy, at 8 cents each, and how many cents would you have left?

37. If you had 57 dollars, how many sheep could you buy, at 5 dollars each, and how many dollars. would you have left?

38. If 132 dollars will buy 12 coats, how much will one coat cost?

39.

How many cords of wood can be bought for 100 dollars, at 4 dollars a cord?

40. When a man, having 75 dollars, can buy 9 pigs, and have 3 dollars left, what is the cost of each pig?

41. What is sugar a pound, if 9 pounds can be bought for 54 cents? For 63 cents? For 90 cents?

42. What is one twelfth of 84 dollars?

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44.

How many times 11 dollars in 121 dollars? 81 are 9 times what number?

LESSON XVII.

1. How many times 5+2 in 21?

In 35?

2. How many times 6+4 in 50? In 70? 3. 4422 are 11 times what number?

4.

In 107-7?

What is one eighth of 55+9? Of 63+9? 5. How many times 10 in 115-5? 6. What is one ninth of 66 - -3?

Of 78-6?

7. How many times 9 less 4 in 63 -8?

8. How many times 18-12 in 90—30? 9. Jason had 52 apples, and found 8 more; he then divided the whole equally among 4 schoolmates; how many did he give to each?

10. A man had 25 cows, and bought 35 more; if he should put them all into 5 pastures, how many would there be in each pasture, if equally divided?

11. A farmer had 47 bushels of apples; saving 12 bushels for his own use, he sold the rest in equal quantities to 5 persons; how many bushels did he sell to each person?

12. A boy on the way to market with 19 fishes, lost 4 of them; the rest he sold for 75 cents; how much apiece did he get for those he sold?

13. William had 16 chickens, but a cat caught 4 of them; the rest he sold for 60 dimes; how much apiece did he get for those he sold?

14. Thomas sold some nuts for 12 cents, some apples for 18 cents, and some peaches for 20 cents, and with the money bought writing-books at 10 cents apiece; how many writing-books did he buy?

15. A gentleman divided 120 dollars equally among his 3 sons and 2 daughters; how many dollars did he give to each?

16. George had 59 pears; he gave 4 of them to one companion, 3 to another, 2 to another, and divided the remainder equally among his 10 classmates; how many did each receive?

17. Bought 6 barrels of pork for 120 dollars; at how much a barrel must it be sold to gain 2 dollars a barrel?

2 men bought a cow for 40 dollars, and a horse for 80 dollars; they sold the cow for 30 dollars, and the horse for 100 dollars; what was each man's share of the gain, if equally divided?

19. How many pears, at 3 cents apiece, will pay for 2 melons, at 6 cents apiece?

ANALYSIS. Since 1 melon is worth 6 cents, 2 melons will be worth 2 times 6 cents, which are 12 cents; and since 1 pear is worth 3 cents, it will take as many pears to be worth 12 cents as 3 cents are contained times in 12 cents, which are 4. Therefore 4 pears, at 3 cents apiece, will pay for 2 melons, at 6 cents apiece.

20. How many lemons, at 4 cents apiece, will pay for 4 oranges, at 2 cents apiece?

21. 3 times 8 are how many times 6? 4?

22. 3 times 10 are how many times 6? 5?

23. At 2 dollars a bushel, how many bushels of wheat must be given for 4 barrels of flour, at 8 dol fars a barrel?

24.

25.

26.

14?
12?
work in 4

4 times 7 are how many times 2? 4 times 9 are how many times 3? If a man can do a certain piece of days when the days are 12 hours long, in how many days will he do it when the days are 8 hours long? 5 times 8 are how many times 4? 5 times 10 are how many times 2?

27.

28.

10?

25?

29. How many yards of broadcloth, at 4 dollars a yard, should be received in payment for 10 sheep, at 6 dollars each?

30. At 8 cents a pound, how many pounds of sugar can be bought for 6 dozen of eggs, at 12 cents a dozen ?

31. If you should sell 7 quarts of chestnuts, at 8 cents a quart, how many slates could you buy, at 14 cents apiece?

32. If you should sell 8 quarts of milk, at 5 cents a quart, how many yards of cotton cloth, at 10 cents a yard, could you take in pay?

33. 6 times 6 are how many times 3? 18?

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35.

36.

6 times 9 are how many times 2? 27?

6 times 15 are how many times 3 times 10? 7 times 10 are how many times 5 times 7? 37. 8 times 8 are how many times 4 times 4 ? 38. Bought 9 quarts of cranberries, at 10 cents a quart; to pay for them gave raisins worth 15 cents a pound; how many pounds did it take?

39. Bought 9 yards of broadcloth at 8 dollars a yard, and paid for it with flour, at 12 dollars a barrel; how many barrels did it take?

The SIGN of DIVISION is a short horizontal line with a dot above it and another below,÷, which signifies divided by; thus, 1829 is read, 18 divided by 2 is equal to 9.

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2?

40. 9 times 8 are how many times 24
9 times 11 are how many times 33÷3 ?
10 times 6 are how many times 20 ÷ 4?

42.

43. 5 times 10 are how many times 45 ÷ 9? 44. 4 times 12 are how many times 427 ? 45. 12 times 7 are how many times 246? 46. 3 times 8 are how many times 549 ?

47. Gave 12 oranges in exchange for 6 pineapples, worth 10 cents apiece; how much was each orange worth?

ANALYSIS. Since 1 pine-apple was worth 10 cents, 6 pine-apples would be worth 6 times 10 cents, which are 60 cents; and since 12 oranges were worth 60 cents, 1 orange would be worth one twelfth of 60 cents, which is 5 cents; Therefore, &c.

48. Gave 6 cords of wood in exchange for 3 buffalo-robes, at 12 dollars each; how much was the wood worth a cord?

49. Received 25 yards of broadcloth for 5 tons of hay, worth 10 dollars a ton; how much did I pay a yard for the cloth?

50. One book contains 10 pages, with 30 lines on a page; but a second book, containing the same number of lines, has 15 pages; how many lines to a page has the second book?

51. An orchard contains 8 rows of trees, and each row contains 12 trees; if I should arrange the same number of trees in 6 equal rows, how many trees would each row contain?

52. How much butter, at 20 cents a pound, must be given for 8 yards of calico, at 15 cents a yard?

53. James bought 4 dozen of lead-pencils, at 25 cents a dozen, and paid for them in apples, at 10 cents a dozen; how many dozen of apples did the pencils cost?

54. Bought 15 yards of cloth, at 6 dollars a yard, and 4 yards more, at 5 dollars a yard, and paid for it with 11 loads of hay; how much was the hay worth a load?