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How many feet a fathom? Ans. 6.

How are distances measured? Ans. By a chain. How many rods long? Ans. 4.

How many links does it contain? Ans. 100.
How many feet a geon:etrical pace? Ans. 5.
How many geometrical miles a degree? Ans.60.
How many points a line? Ans. 6.

How many lines an inch? Ans. 12.
How many pounds in a barrel of pork? Ans. 220.
How many pounds in a barrel of beef? Ans.220.
How many single things make a dozen? Ans. 12.
How many a dozen a gross? Ans. 12.

How many dozen a great gross? Ans. 144.
How many single things make a score? Ans.20.
How many score make a hundred? Ans. 5.
How many sheets of paper make a quire?-A.24.
How many quires a ream? Ans. 20.

How many parts is an ounce of gold divided into? Ans. 24.

What are the parts called? Ans. Carats.
How many parts an ounce of silver? Ans. 20.
What called? Ans. Pennyweights.

How many carats fine is such gold, as will abide the fire without loss accounted? Ans. 24.

How many ounces in a pound of silver that loses nothing in trial? Ans. 12.

What is that baser metal which is sometimes mixed with silveror gold, called? Ans. Alloy. How many characters are there in Arithmetic to express numbers? Ans. 10.

How many of these are called figures? Ans. 9. What are they? Ans. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. What is the other character called? Ans. 0, or cypher.

By what other name are they sometimes called? Ans. Digits.

How many Roman letters are used to express numbers? Ans. 7.

What are they? 1,V,X,L,C,D,M.

What do two parallel horizontal lines signify? Ans. Equality; as 5 and 9 are equal to=14. What does St. George's Cross signify?

Ans. Addition; as 8 and 7 are equal to 15; thus 8+7=15

What does one horizontal line signify?

Ans. Subtraction; as 3 taken from 9 leaves 6; thus 9-3-6

What does St. Andrew's Cross signify?

Ans. Multiplication; as 8 multiplied by 3 makes 24; thus 8×3=24..

What does a horizontal line between two points signify?

Ans. Division; as the number of times 5. there are in 20; thus 20÷÷÷5=4.,

What do 8 dots signify.

Ans. Proportion; as 2 is to four, so is 8 to 16 thus 2:4:8:16.

ARITHMETIC

What is the computing by numbers called? Ans, Arithmetic.

How many rules for its operation? Ans. Five. What are they?-Ans. Notation, or Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. How many values have figures? Ans. Two. What are they? Ans. Simple and Local..

What is the value of a figure standing alone? Ans. Simple,

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What is its value when combined with other figures? Ans. Local; as 20.

What is the value of a cypher standing alone? Ans. No value.

Does it increase or diminish the value when placed at the right hand of figures? Ans. Increase. In what proportion? Ans. Tenfold.

What is the art of numbering called? Ans. Notation, or Numeration.'

Which hand begin to numerate? Ans. Right, Which hand to read? Ans. Left.

In reading what value do you give those figures that were called units, when numerated? Ans. Units.

What value do you give hundreds? A. Hundreds. What thousands &c.? Ans. Thousands and so on.

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on the book.

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What is the collecting of numbers together in one sum called? Ans. Addition.

What is the collecting of several numbers of the same kind, or denomination called? Ans. Simple Addition.

What do you mean by the same kind, or denomination? Ans. All pounds, all dollars, all cents. or 'all drams, &c.

How place units tens, &c. units, teus under tens, &c.

Ans. units under

What hand begin to add? Ans. Right.

How do yon carry? Ans. One for every ten, or set down the right hand figure, and carry the left hand figure or figures to the next column.

What do you mean by carrying so may as you

have tens? Ans. Add so many to the next column. What is the proof? Ans. Cut off the upper line, and find the amount of the rest; then if this amount and upper line when added, be equal to the first amount, the work is right.

Why begin to add to the right hand? Ans. Because figures increase from the right to the left. Ans. Because ten nnits makes one ten, and ten tens one hundred and

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so on.

To illustrate: You have 4 marbles in one hand, and six in the other, how many have you in both hands?

How many are four and six then?

By what name are 4 and 6 added together called Ans. Amount.

EXAMPLES.

You bought an orange for nine cents, and a mellon for 15 cents; what did you pay for both?

James bought a top for 6 cents,a knife for 12 cents, and an inkstand for 8 cents; how much did they all come to?

Harry, and James lose some money, James lost 20 cents, and Harry 12; how much did they both lose?

A boy laid out ten cents in marbles, 8 cents in quills, 6 cents for a slate pencil; how much did he lay out in all?

You give 20 cents for Practical Arithmetic, 8 cents for a ruler, 9 cents for an inkstand, and lose 6 cents; how much money has gone from you?

A man gave his children money in the following manner; to his oldest 3 dollars, to James 5 dollars, to Thomas 9 dollars and to his two daughters 4 dollars

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