6. How many yards of paper will it require to cover the walls and ceiling of a room 20 feet long, 15 feet wide, 10 feet high, the width of the paper being ten inches?

7. If of a pound of butter costs lb. cost?

of a dollar, what will 51

8. If the rent of a house worth $4,000 is $33 a month, what is the value, at the same rate, of a house that rents for $87.50 a month?

9. If 1,998, or 27 per cent of the inhabitants of a town, are voters, how many inhabitants has the town?

10. If the tax rate is $13.80 on $1,000, what is the assessed value of property that pays a tax of $144.90?

990. Philadelphia Public Schools. Oral Work.

1. [(9612) × 9]+12=

2. of 48 is 4 times what number?

3. A horse was sold for $80, which was of the cost. How much was lost on the horse?

4. What part of 5 gal. is 3 qt.?

5. 24 is 60 per cent of what number?

6. If a bushel of English walnuts costs $1.60, what will 6 quarts cost?

7. A man had $600 in the bank. He drew out 16 per cent of it. How many dollars remained in the bank?

8. A man put 5 gal. 2 qt. of syrup into bottles holding two quarts each. How many bottles did it require?

9. (a) What is the interest of $300, for 30 days, at 6 per

cent?

(b) A lost 40 per cent of his money, and had $750 left. How much had he at first?

991. Written Work.

1. (a) Add 61.027; 64.3006; 7.986071; 832.026; 610.016. (6) Multiply .71298 by .0398.

2. Divide five thousand fifty and five tenths by ten thousand one hundred one hundred-thousandths. From the quotient take twenty-five thousand one hundred-thousandths.

3. (a) Find the greatest common divisor of 949 and 1,387.

(b) Find the least common multiple of 28, 32, 56, 72, 96.

4. Ten cows were sold for $690, at a gain of 15 per cent. For how much per head on the average should they have been sold to gain 20 per cent?

5. Find the interest of $575.50, for 1 year, 10 months, 15 days, at 5%.

6. A, B, and C formed a partnership. A put in $400; B, $350; C, $600. In one year they gained $540. What was each one's share of the gain?

7. A man invested $9,562.50 in the stock of a city bank at 127, the par value being $100 per share. If a dividend of 34 per cent is declared, what amount of dividend would he get?

EXCHANGE.

992. If I wish to pay a bill in a distant city, ought I to enclose the money in a letter? Why?

Can money be sent by express? Can the telegraph be used in paying money at a distance?

What is a money-order?

Can I buy from the postal authorities a money-order payable in Europe? What will be the cost of a money-order for $85, payable in San Francisco? What is the largest money-order that can be purchased?

What is a check? Can you tell why a draft rather than a check is used in paying a bill at a distance?

Pupils should be encouraged to look up answers to the foregoing.

Bills of exchange are either foreign or domestic. A domestic bill of exchange is called a draft, the term bill of exchange being generally applied only to foreign bills.

DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.

993. Slate Problems.

William F. Smith, of Memphis, Tenn., owes John M. Thomson, of New York, $3,475.86. He purchases from a Memphis banker, Joseph E. Washington, a sight draft for the above amount on the Chemical Bank of New York. The following is the form of the draft:

$3,475,8%.

MEMPHIS, TENN., Aug. 9, 1893.

At sight, pay to the order of John M. Thomson Three Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-five and Dollars, value received, and charge to the account of

To CHEMICAL BANK,

New York.

86 100

JOSEPH E. WASHINGTON.

1. What must William F. Smith pay for the above draft, the rate being $1.50 premium per $1,000?

(A draft for $1,000 costs $1,001.50.)

2. Find the cost of a Boston draft on New York for $1,875, at 12 discount per $1,000.

(A draft for $1,000 costs $999.88.)

3. What will a St. Louis merchant have to pay for a draft on New York for $2,460.53, at 50 premium per $1,000?

4. If the rate of exchange is 50% discount per $1,000, what is the face of the sight draft on Boston, that can be bought in New York for $1,000?

5. When the premium is $1.25 per $1,000, Mr. Brown pays $1,634.04 for a draft on Louisville. What is the face of the draft?

6. At 1% premium, find the cost of a sight draft for $1,843.60.

7. At 75¢ discount per $1,000, how much will cost a sight draft on Milwaukee for $946.75?

8. Paid $632.18 for a sight draft on Milwaukee. the face of the draft, the discount being %?

40

What was

9. I sent a commission merchant $1,000 to buy grain. How much will he spend for grain, if his commission at 11% is included in the amount sent?

(Let x = amount spent for grain. ?

=

commission.)

10. A farmer ships produce to a commission merchant, which the latter sells for $339.66, charging 2 per cent commission. For the remainder of the money he buys groceries and dry-goods, charging 2 per cent commission on the amount spent. What is the cost of the goods purchased?

REVIEW.

994. Slate Problems.

1. A joiner worked on Monday 9 hr. 45 min., on Tuesday and Wednesday 10 hr. 45 min. each day, on Thursday and Friday 10 hr. 15 min. each day, and on Saturday 6 hr. 45 min. What was the average length of his day's work?

2. A watch that loses 35 seconds in an hour was set right at noon on Monday. What time did it show at 6 P.M. the fol lowing Thursday?

3. There are 5 boys whose heights are 4 ft. 9 in., 5 ft. 1 in., 4 ft. 5 in., 3 ft. 11 in., and 4 ft. 4 in., respectively. What is their average height?

4. A man had a plot of ground 20 yards long and 12 yards wide, which he planted in cabbage. How many plants did he require, if the rows, which ran lengthwise, were 2 feet apart and 2 feet from the fence surrounding the plot, and the plants in the rows 16 inches from each other and from the fence?

row.

Get the correct number of rows, and the correct number of plants in a How many plants would have been needed if the rows ran crosswise? 5. How long would it take a person to count a million silver dollars, at the rate of 100 a minute, and working 8 hours a day?

6. The front wheel of a wagon is 13 ft. 4 in. in circumference. How many revolutions will it make in a journey of 14 miles? How many more revolutions will it make than the hind wheel, the circumference of the latter being 17 ft. 6 in.?

7. The wheels of an engine being 16 ft. 8 in. in circumference, and the number of revolutions 150 per minute, how far does it go in an hour? Give answer in miles and rods.

995. Circular Measure.

60 seconds (") 1 minute (^)

60 minutes

360 degrees

1 degree (°)

1 circle.

8. If the equatorial circumference of the earth is 25,000 miles, how many miles apart are two places on the equator, the distance between them being 20°?

9. What is the length of a degree on a circle whose diameter is 18 feet?

The circumference diameter x 3.1416.

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10. The 60th parallel of latitude is a circle about one-half as long as the equator. How far due east of Christiania is St. Petersburg, both situated on this parallel, the former being 10° east of Greenwich, and the latter 30° east?

11. How many miles north of the equator is a place in latitude 46° 22' 30"? Take 694 miles to a degree.