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12 parts called acres Answers avoirdupois Ben Nevis Caucasian race complete quotient cost crowns cubic divided divisor dozen Express the following farthings to pounds feet find the complete find the price Find the quotient five millions florin fluid dram fluid ounce following find following numbers forty-one thousand gallons guineas half-crowns half-guineas half-sovereigns halfpence halfpenny hundred and eight hundred and eighty-four hundred and eleven hundred and forty hundred and forty-nine hundred and nine hundred and seventy-nine hundred and sixty-nine improper fractions inches INITIATORY EXERCISES MENTAL EXERCISES miles millions eight hundred millions five hundred millions six hundred multiplied mutton nine hundred nine thousand ounce pence quotient and remainder Roman numerals sheep Simplify sixty-one thousand sold sovereign square subtract TABLE thou thousand and nine thousand eight hundred thousand five hundred thousand four hundred thousand six hundred thousand three hundred VIII VULGAR FRACTIONS yards
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Page 93 - TABLE. 16 drams, (drs.) make 1 ounce, - marked - oz. 16 ounces ----- 1 pound, - - - - - ' Ib. 28 pounds ----- 1 quarter, ----- qr. 4 quarters ----- 1 hundred weight, - - cwt. 20 hundred weight - - 1 ton, ------ T.
Page 90 - If 9 men can do a piece of work in 8 days, how many men can do the same in 12 days?
Page 91 - A can do it in 10 days, in 1 day he can do fj of it. If x is the number of days required when both work together, then in 1 day they can do - of it. Hence we have the equation, x 13. B can do a piece of work in 12 days and A can do it in 9 days. How long will it take both working together to do it ? 14. A pipe can fill a cistern in 11 hours and another in 13 hours. How long will it require both pipes to fill it? Ans.
Page 49 - If 32 meters equal 35 yds., and a brass rod 1.5 me• ters long weighs 19 lbs. 11 oz., find the weight of an inch of this rod. 105. If 7 men in 25 dys. of 10 hrs. each earn $219, how many hours a day should 12 men work to earn $262.80 in the same number of days ? 106. If a man can do ^- of a piece of work in a day, how long would he take to do £ of a piece of work 5^ times as much in amount, if he work 1-f times as fast as before, but only $ as long each day ? 107.
Page 83 - A. 16$| days. 95. If 15 men, 12 women, and 9 boys, can complete a piece of work in 50 days, what time would 9 men, 15 women, and 18 boys, take to do twice as much, the parts done by each in the same time being as the numbers 3, 2, and 1 1 A.
Page 88 - A bill of £23, 19s. 7|d. was paid by an equal number of sovereigns, half-sovereigns, crowns, shillings, sixpences, threepenny-pieces, pence, halfpence, and farthings.
Page 44 - If a mile of railway requires 113 tons of iron in its construction at £1 1 per ton, what will be the cost of the iron required to construct a railway 209 miles long ? 2. A bankrupt's debts come to ^3548 6s. 8d. What will his creditors lose if he can pay only 125.
Page 67 - How much did he gain or lose by the transaction '! (6.) What does a person save in a year of 365 days if he earn daily on an average 15s.
Page 30 - By how much does the difference of their cubes exceed the cube of their difference ? (9.) A body of soldiers was formed into a solid square, with 49 men on each side.