REVIEW AND PRACTICE Oral 1. Which is greater, or ? or ? or ? or ? 2. The "Lincoln Stars" won the following scores: 7, 8, 2, 9, 4. score? 5 games of baseball, with What was their average 3. Name five aliquot parts of one dollar. 4. How many packages of cereal at $.12 each can be bought for $3? 5. What per cent of anything is of it? of it? ? ? 1? ? ? ? ? 6. Annie owns a 100-dollar liberty bond that bears 4% interest. What is the interest for six months? 7. 62% of $16 is how much money? 8. From the Fourth of July to Christmas is how many days? 9. What is the cost of 2500 shingles at $6 per M? 10. What is the area of a triangle whose base is 20 inches and whose altitude is 1 foot? 11. What is the area of a triangle whose base is 12 feet and whose altitude is 24 feet? 12. How many feet of lumber are there in a board which is 14 ft. long, 6 in. wide, and in. thick? 13. What is the amount of $300 for 11 yr. at 3%? 14. The interest on a sum of money for ten months is $35. What is the interest on the same sum, at the same rate, for two months? 15. of a flagpole 126 ft. high was broken off by the wind. How many feet high was the piece left standing? 16. When Congress increased out-of-town letter postage from 2 to 34, what per cent was the increase? Written In examples 1-4, add and test your work by adding in another order. Practice until you can get all answers correct in five minutes. For speed and accuracy, copy the numbers on the blackboard and add figures from left to right, putting down sums as rapidly as figures can be read with the eye. 5. Express in Roman numerals the number of the year in which you were born. 6. Write in words 500,200.00202. 7. The sum of two numbers is 80,305. One of the addends is 79,496. Find the other. 8. One rectangular field is 35 rods by 54 rods; another is 24 rods by 51 rods. How many more feet of fence are required to inclose one of them than to inclose the other? 9. Mr. Welch sold two horses for $275 each, and a carriage for $295. He then bought an automobile costing 23 times as much as the horses and carriage brought. He received how much less than he paid out? 10. 15% of the weight of a piece of cotton and wool cloth was wool. If the piece contained 25 lb. of cotton, how many pounds did the piece weigh? 11. In excavating the side of a hill for a railroad, it was necessary to remove 8500 cubic yards of clay and rock. If 19% of the material removed was rock, how many cubic feet of clay were removed? 12. a. A brick wall 41 ft. 6 in. long, 1 ft. 6 in. wide, and 8 ft. high contains how many bricks, if 22 bricks will make 1 cu. ft. of the wall? b. They cost how much at $9.50 per M? 13. What is the interest on $350 for 7 mo. 15 da., the rate of interest being 5%? 14. Find in the shortest way the interest on a sum of money for 30 days, when the interest on the same sum, at the same rate, for 120 days, is $37.16. 15. The widths of six city lots, lying side by side, are as follows: 55 ft., 40 ft. 6 in., 72 ft. 9 in., 38 ft. 10 in., 80 ft., and 66 ft. 8 in. Find in feet the entire width of all the lots. 16. A grocer retails potatoes in baskets holding § bu. each, at $1.25 a basket. What is the price per bushel? 17. Divide 23756.1 by 1.25. 18. Multiply 25.13 by 5.1. 19. The base of a triangle is 6 ft. Its altitude is 37,3 in. Find its area. 20. What is the interest on $900 for 1 yr. 24 da. at 41%? 21. $42.30 is the interest on how much money for 1 yr. at 6%? (First give the statement of the problem.) 22. Jessie Palmer packed 6 boxes of peaches with 60 peaches in a box, 10 boxes with 70 in a box, and 9 boxes with 84 in a box. What was the average number of peaches in a box? PROBLEMS OF THE SEWING ROOM 1. Needlebooks are made from pieces of white flannel 3" by 4", costing 50¢ a square yard. What do 30 such pieces cost? 2. A piece of Java canvas 4" by 51" is used for a needlebook. What does it cost at $1.00 per square yard? 3. A tea-holder is made from a piece of Java canvas 51′′ by 51′′, costing $1.00 per square yard, and a piece of sateen 5" by 51", costing 15¢ a square yard. What do both pieces cost? 4. Find the cost of the material for 30 cookery holders, each requiring a piece of gingham 8" by 6", another 6" by 61", and of a bolt of tape, the gingham being 27" wide and costing 15¢ a yard, and the tape 4¢ a bolt? 5. How many pin wheels can be made from 2 yd. of cloth 32 in. wide if each pin wheel requires two pieces of cloth 4" square? 6. Find the cost of 20 cookery holders, each requiring the following material: 2 pieces of unbleached muslin, 51′′ × 51′′, the muslin being 36 in. wide and costing 12¢ per yard; 1 piece of sheet cotton 5" x 5", a piece 72" by 84" costing $1.00; red thread, $.01; white thread, $.01. 7. A girl's skirt is made of muslin, 36 in. wide, at 20¢ a yard. It requires: 2 widths of muslin, 20 in. long 1 placket facing 2" × 24" 2 widths of cloth, 61" wide (for ruffling) What does the material cost? 8. Find the cost of material for a "middy" requiring: 21 yd. galatea at 184; belt, and cuffs, at 184; thread, 5¢. yd. contrasting color for collar, doz. buttons at 20¢, and spool of PROBLEMS OF THE SHOP 1. The two larger pieces in this flower-pot stand are " x 11" x 7" and are cut from one piece 1" 13" 16". How much of each dimension can be cut away in fitting the pieces to be put together? 2. After the pieces are made of the right size, the center of each piece is found, and lines are drawn across the stick at each side of the center and a distance from the center equal to one half the width of the piece. How far from the center are these lines drawn? 3. The wood is cut out between these lines halfway through the piece, to make a lap joint. How deep is the cut? 4. The lumber from which these pieces are made is what part of a board foot? 5. How many pieces 1" x 14" x 16" can be cut from a board 1" x 9" x 16", making no allowance for the saw kerf? 6. What will such a board cost, at $40 per M bd. ft.? 7. The smaller pieces, or feet, are square, and project " at each side and end of the crosspieces. What is the size of each foot? 8. The feet are " thick. What is the total height of the stand? 9. Forty of them piled one upon another would make a pile how many feet and inches high? 16 10. How many of these feet could be cut from a board 5 " x 8" x 9', allowing" for each saw kerf and 5" for waste on account of season-checks at the ends? |