Mathematics for common schools Volume ч. 2 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... exclusive of ciphers. Divide without writing products: 692. Solve by short division. When ciphers are canceled in the divisor, what change must be made in the decimal point of the dividend? 5. A merchant buys goods for $2,965, and loses 15-hunclredths by damage. How much money does he lose? 6. Five-eighths of 48 is.§. of how many times 9? (f of 48 = of? X 9 = X 9 x?) 7. A man bought a cargo of wool and sold seven thousand forty-five ten-thousandths of it. What part of the cargo had he left? MISCELLANEOUS. 694. Slate Exercises. 1. Find the cost of 24,400 bricks @ $6.25 per M. Ans. $6.25 X 24.400 = $6.25 X 24.4. (How do we divide by 1,000?) 2. 760 pounds of hay @ 95 cents per cwt. (100 lb.). 3. 48,600 laths @ $2.80 per M. 4. 39,250 stamped envelopes @ $21.30 per thousand. 5. 1,875 pounds of straw @ 68 cents per cwt. 6. 108,745 Philadelphia bricks @ $22.00 per M. 7. 14,860 oranges @ 75 per 100. 8. 2,376 eggs @ 13 per doz. 9. 4,500 cigars @ $35 per M. 10. 28 doz. wax candles @ $13.50 per gross (144). 695. Solve by cancellation where possible: 11. 38,648 lb. of wheat @ 90 per bu. (60 lb.). 12. 18,964 lb. of coal @ $5 per ton (2,000 lb.). 13. 48,576 lb. of oats @ 36 J per bu. (32 lb.). 14. 69,104 lb. of rye @ 91 per bu. (56 lb.). 15. 74,816 lb. of corn @ 48£ per bu. (56 lb.). 16. 360 meters of cloth @ $1.10 per yd. (1 meter = 39.37 inches). 17. Cost in United States money of 386 hats @ 24 francs each (1 franc =19.3). 18. 480 meters of cloth @ 1.10 marks per meter (1 mark = 23.8). 19. 58,996 lb. of flour @ $5.25 per bbl. (196 lb.). 20. 8,640 pens @ 59 cents per gross (144). '. Perform indicated operations. Change divisor to whole number, making corresponding change in the dividend. Cancel. 698. United States Oivil Service. Postal Service. Olerks. 1. Exp...