14. Divide 3 times 24 by 8. By 12. By 4. 15. What cost 6 bushels of potatoes at $0.85 a bushel ? 16. Multiply the sum of 19 and 38 by 4. 17. If 3 yards of ribbon cost $0.42, what is the price of a yard? 18. What cost 4 yards of alpaca at $0.67 a yard? At $0.75 a yard? At $0.38 a yard? 19. What cost 3 dozen pencils at $0.05 apiece? 20. If five tickets to a concert cost $3.75, what is the price of a ticket? 21. Divide the sum of 29 and 49 by 6. 22. If 4 suits of clothes cost $64, what is the price of one suit? 23. How many pairs of shoes at $3 a pair, can a dealer buy for $87? 24. If a sewing-machine cost $35, what is the price of 3 machines? Of 4? Of 5? Of 8? 25. What is 9 times the sum of 36 and 59? 26. The average price of each one of a herd of 80 cattle is $34. What is the price of the entire herd ? 27. How many five-dollar bills will it take to pay for ten yards of broadcloth at $4 a yard? 28. What cost 8 acres of land at $75 an acre? At $85? At $90? At $95? CHAPTER XXIII. 1. One pint is what part of a quart? 2. How many quarts in 4 pints? In 6 pints? In 9 pints? 3. One peck is what part of a bushel? 4. How many bushels in 8 pecks? In 20 pecks? In 17 pecks? In 9 pecks? In 11 pecks? 5. One foot is what part of a yard? 6. How many yards in 10 feet? In 11 feet? In 4 feet? In 20 feet? In 24 feet? In 17 feet? 7. In one gallon how many quarts? How many pints? 8. What part of one gallon is a quart? A pint? 9. How many gallons in 9 quarts? In 10 quarts? In 14 quarts? In 9 pints? In 12 pints? In 15 pints? In 19 pints? 10. There are 6 working days in a week. What part of a week's work ought to be done in 2 days? In 5 days? In 3 days? In 1 day? In 4 days? 11. There are 10 cents in one dime. dimes in $0.27? In $0.35? In $0.62? In $0.48? In $0.54? In $0.39 ? 12. There are 12 inches in one foot. of a foot is 6 inches? 3 inches? How many In $0.83 ? What part 4 inches? 9 inches ? 8 inches? 2 inches? 5 inches? 7 inches ? 9 inches? 14 inches? 13. How many feet are there in 27 inches? In 30 inches? In 40 inches? In 50 inches? In 56 inches? In 69 inches? In 71 inches? In 91 inches? In 100 inches? 14. There are 16 ounces in a pound. of a pound is 8 ounces? 2 ounces? 3 ounces? 4 ounces? What part 12 ounces? 6 ounces? 10 ounces? 9 ounces? 14 ounces ? 15 ounces? 15. How many pounds are there in 20 ounces? In 24 ounces? In 60 ounces ? In 50 ounces? In 40 ounces? In 45 ounces? 16. There are 24 hours in a day. What part of a day is 12 hours? 6 hours? 8 hours? 17. How many days are there in 60 hours? In 72 hours? In 54 hours? In 80 hours? 18. If a man, working regularly 8 hours a day, earns $6 in half a week, how much does he earn in a day? In an hour? In 4 weeks? In 13 weeks? In 15 weeks? 19. What is one half of 17? Of 31? Of 49? Of 25? Of 29? Of 35? Of 41? 20. Find one third of 10. 35. Of 41. Of 43. Of 50. Of 17. Of 26. Of 21. When 2 quarts of apples cost $0.10, what is the price of a peck? CHAPTER XXV. 1. How many pints in 2 quarts? How many halves in 41? In 51 ? In 71 ? 2. If I divide 6 apples equally among a number of boys, giving each half an apple, to how many boys are the apples given? 3. How many feet in 63 yards? How many thirds in 33? In 83? In 7? In 103 ? 4. A plank 23 yards long is cut into pieces each 2 feet long. Into how many pieces is it cut? 5. How many pecks in 2 bushels? How many fourths, or quarters, in 61? In 18? In 121? 6. At a quarter of a dollar a dozen, how many dozen eggs will $1.25 purchase? $1.50? $2.75? 7. How many fifths in 3? 91? 64? 83? 8. What part of a working week is one day? How many working weeks in 7 days? In 9 days? In 8 days? In 10 days? 9. What part of a calendar week (7 days) is one day? How many calendar weeks in 8 days? In 10? In 12? In 15? In 18? 10. When board costs $1 a day, in how many weeks will a board bill amount to $10? $30? $15? $20? $8? $25? |