12. The sum of 18 and 4 is how much greater than 15? 13. What cost 6 pounds of sugar at 5 cents a pound? 14. What cost 6 oranges, at 3 cents each? 15. Two pints make a quart. How many pints are there in 12 quarts? 16. Four pecks make a bushel. pecks are there in 10 bushels? How many 17. From the sum of 33 and 7 take 9. 18. Ten cents make a dime. are there in ten dimes? How many cents 19. One hundred cents make a dollar. How many dimes make a dollar? 20. At 3 dollars a barrel, what will 8 barrels of apples cost? 21. At 10 cents a yard, what will ten yards of cloth cost? 22. If I buy 9 yards of ribbon at 10 cents a yard, and hand the seller a dollar bill, what one coin can be returned to me as my change? What two coins? What ten coins? What six coins? 23. What is the cost of 4 gallons of milk at 12 cents a gallon? Of 5 quarts of milk at 7 cents a quart? 24. At 6 dollars a ton, what will 12 tons of coal cost? CHAPTER VII. READ the exercises below (the sign × may be read times). Supply the figures for the ??. Illus tration: 3 x 2 = 6 is read, Three times two are Read again, as follows: Three twos are six. 9=18 77 12 CHAPTER VIII. 1. In 3 bushels there are 12 pecks. How many pecks are there in one bushel? 2. When 5 oranges cost 15 cents, what is the price of one orange ? 3. If one orange cost 2 cents, what will 12 oranges cost? 4. In 12 feet there are 4 yards. How many feet are there in one yard? 5. From the sum of 19 and 6 take 11. 6. In 3 weeks there are 21 days. How many days are there in a week? How many 7. Twelve inches make one foot. inches are there in 9 feet? How many yards? 8. If a horse travels 24 miles in 3 hours, how many miles does he travel in an hour? 9. If there are 96 trees in 8 rows, how many trees in each row? 10. If 10 pencils cost half a dollar, what is the price of one pencil? 11. I bought 6 blank books for 72 cents. What was the price of each? 12. From the sum of 13 and 9 take 7. 13. There are 24 quarts in 6 gallons. How many quarts are there in one gallon? 14. When 8 barrels of flour cost $48, what is the cost of one barrel? 15. There are 60 inches in 5 feet. How many inches are there in one foot? 16. How many days in 7 weeks? 21. Frank had just a dollar. After buying two melons at 25 cents each, how many oranges at 5 cents apiece will the rest of his money purchase? 22. A man working 6 days in a week earns $24 in 2 weeks. How much does he earn a week? How much a day? 23. To the sum of 9 and 13 add 8. 24. Henry sold 12 quarts of berries at 8 cents a quart, and bought 3 dozen oranges at 25 cents a dozen; he paid 15 cents for a pound of figs, and gave the rest of the money he received for the berries to his sister Lucy. How many apples at 2 cents each could Lucy buy with the money Henry gave her? 25. How many pints in 8 quarts? How many gallons? |