1999. If 61 acres produce 7861 bu. of wheat, what will 131 acres produce, yielding the same amount per acre? 2000. A man spent $11 in a grocery store, $1.36 in a dry goods store, and as much in a hardware store as in both the others. How much did he have left out of $10? 12 2001. Mr. Elliott owned of a farm and sold of his share. What part of the farm did he sell? If there were 400 acres in the farm, how many acres did he still own? 2002. How many times can I take 81 gallons from 4231 gallons, and what will remain? 2003. I have $362.30. If I buy 15 calves at a cost of $14.25 per head and 40 bu. of corn at 371 per bu., how much money will I still have? 2004. Two persons are 816 miles apart and travel toward each other for 21 days, one at the rate of 461 miles per day, the other at the rate of 511⁄2 miles per day. How far apart will they be at the end of the 21 days? 2005. If they had traveled in opposite directions, how far apart would they have been at the expiration of 21 days? 2006. of a pint is what fraction of a bushel? In of a bushel how many pints? 2007. of a foot is what fraction of a rod? In of a rod how many feet? 2008. of a pound is what fraction of a ton? In ton how many pounds? 2009. A boy worked a year, keeping account each month of the money earned and expended. Commencing with June and taking the months in order, he earned the following amounts: $16.65, $18.50, $20.20, $17.30, $22.00, $23.35, $19.20, $17.70, $15.80, $14.45, $12.07, $11.99. Out of each month's salary he gave his mother the amount indicated: $ 9.26, $ 7.90, $15.80, $12.95, $11.20, $ 9.82, $9.45, $ 7.65, $ 6.22. 2010. Arrange these items in columns for the year, commencing with the column for months at the left side of the paper. For the headings of these columns write Months, Amt. Earned, Per Expenses, Gave Mother, Saved. 2011. Find the amount saved each month and place it in its proper place. 2012. Add the columns. The totals of what three columns taken together equal the total of one column? 2013. What was the total amount of money earned during the year? 2014. What was the amount of his personal expenses for the year? 2015. What was the amount given to his mother during the year? 2016. What was the amount saved during the year? 2017. Commencing at the same time, his mother's expenses for the year by the month were as follows: Rent, $11 per month. 2018. Arrange these items in tabulated form as above, with Months, Rent, Food, Clothing, Coal, Gas, Water, Incidentals, and Totals as the headings of the columns. 2019. Add by months and by columns and add the totals for the grand total. 2020. What was the entire expense for the year? 2021. What fraction of this expense would the money contributed by the son pay? NOTE. Every pupil should learn how to write and arrange any body of facts so that the reader may gather the information contained therein without unnecessary effort. When problems will admit of such a study, as in those just preceding, the attention of the pupil should be directed quite as much to the form as to the problem itself. 2022. A packing house employs 30 boys who earn 81⁄2¢ each an hour for 10 hours a day. If the average time worked per month was: 2023. What was the average number of days worked per year by each of these boys? 2024. What was the total number of days worked by all of the boys? 2025. What was the amount earned during the year by all of the boys? 2026. What was the amount earned during the year by each boy? 2027. If a boy sells an average of 861 papers a month and gets for his services a paper, how much will he earn in 20 months? 2028. If a pupil is kept in school 5 hours each school day, what fraction of a day (24 hr.) is he in school? 2029. At this rate, if a pupil attends school 5 days out of each week, what fraction of a week's time is he in school? If he attends 185 days out of a year, what fraction of a year's time does he attend school? Count 365 days to the year. 2030. If the average duration of daylight per day during the year be 12 hours and a pupil attend 5 hours of each of 185 days, what fraction of the daytime of the year is he in school? 2031. If a pupil spends 23 hours each day at hard study, how many hours will he be thus employed, if he attends school 1921 days during the term of 10 months? Express the answer decimally. 2032. If it were possible to do this amount of work at the rate of 10 hours per day, how many days would be required? 2033. In a year a cow gave 345 gal. of milk, which sold for 5 per quart. The owner pays $1.50 per month pasturage for 5 months, and feeds 13 tons of hay at $11 per ton, 300 lb. of bran at 70¢ per cwt., and 221 bu. of corn at 48¢ per bushel. He pays $2.25 for her care. Allowing 10% for the use of the $45 invested in the cow, what profit did she yield? 2034. Multiply .0025 by 36; .00165 by 160; .125 by 41; .5175 by 81; .000032 by 3189. 2035. Divide .24 by 32; 50.4394 by 227; 2.375 by 19; 15.36 by 12; 89.25 by 5.25. Change: Denominate Numbers 2036. 24 qt. to the decimal of a bushel. 2037. .0025 yard to the decimal of an inch. 2038. .00165 acre to the decimal of a square rod. 2041. of a pound to the decimal of a ton. 2042.86 of a day to the decimal of a week. 10000 2043. 4 of a day to the decimal of an hour. 480 2044. 24 cubic feet to the decimal of a cord. 24285 2045. In a certain library .5 of the books relate to history, .75 of the remainder to science, and the remaining 125 books to fiction. How many books relate to history? How many to science? Make out the bills and find the amount due in the following sales: 2046. T. L. Jerome bought of Hiram Potter: 1 horse at $126, 2 cows at $47.50 each, 1 wagon at $48.75, 2 shovels at $1.20 each, 30 bu. of corn at 621, 261 bu. of wheat at $1.15. 2047. H. K. Miller and Son bought of Jacob Ricker: 5 doz. chickens at $3.25, 9 doz. eggs at 124, 31 doz. ducks at $2.80, 26 turkeys at 86 apiece. |
