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1. How many eighths of a dollar are 2 sixteenths? What then is the value, in cents, of 2 sixteenths of a dollar? 2. What is the value, in cents, of 3 sixteenths of a dollar? 3. How many eighths of a dollar are 4 sixteenths? What part of a dollar are 4 sixteenths?

4. What is the value, in cents, of 5 sixteenths of a dollar? 5. How many eighths of a dollar, and how many cents are 6 sixteenths worth?

6. How many cents are 7 sixteenths worth?

7. How many eighths of a dollar are 8 sixteenths worth? What part of a dollar do 8 sixteenths make?

8. How many cents are 9 sixteenths worth?

9. How many eighths, and how many cents are 10 sixteenths worth?

10. How many cents are 11 sixteenths worth?

11. How many eighths are 12 sixteenths worth? What part of a dollar do 12 sixteenths make?

12. How many cents are 13 sixteenths worth?

13. How many eighths, and how many cents are 14 sixteenths worth?

14. How many cents are 15 sixteenths worth?

15. How many eighths are 16 sixteenths worth? What part of a dollar do 16 sixteenths make?

LESSON 91.

To be performed in the mind.

1. James bought 5 pears at 3 cents apiece, and paid 1 eighth and 1 sixteenth for them; how much change must he receive back? If he had paid 2 eighths, how much change should he have received back ?

2. If you buy a penknife for $.624, and have 1 half dollar and 4 sixteenths in your purse, how will you contrive to pay or make change?

3. A man gave 1 dollar in payment for a book, and received 3 eighths back; what was the price of the book, in cents?

4. If you buy a quire of paper for $.25, some quills for 1 sixteenth, and an inkstand for 3 eighths, what sum must you pay for the whole ? How many sixteenths ?

5. At an auction, A bid six eighths for a book, and B 13 sixteenths; what number of cents did each bid? How much more did B bid than A?

6. If you should buy a handkerchief in New York for 4 shillings, how many New England ninepences would you give in payment? What sum would you have given if the price had been 4 shillings and sixpence ?

7. If a hackman demand 6 shillings for carrying you from the foot of Barclay street, in New York city, to the Astor House, how many cents should you pay him?

8. If you buy articles of a trader in Philadelphia to the amount of 3 levies and 1 fip, how many cents should you pay him?

9. A man was charged 5 picayunes for some luncheon in New Orleans, and paid with a 3-dollar bill; how many dollars and cents should he receive back?

10. If you carry a pocket full of ninepences and fourpence-ha'pennies from Boston to New York, what will you call them there? What will you call them in Philadelphia ?

LESSON 92.

In New England 163 cents are called a shilling, 81 cents, or of a shilling, are called sixpence, and 4 cents, or of a sixpence, are called threepence. There are no coins of these values, but prices are often named in these shillings, sixpences, and threepences.

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What in New England are called a shilling? Sixpence? Threepence? Are there any coins of these values? What is often named in these shillings, &c.?

5 shillings are ....

5 shillings and sixpence are.
6 shillings are ........

831 cents.
913 cents.

100 cents or 1 dollar

To be performed in the mind.

1. If you buy 3 yards of calico in Boston, at 1 shilling a yard, what part of a dollar must you give for your purchase? 2. A man bought a knife in Providence for 4 shillings and sixpence; how many cents did he give for it? How many ninepences? How many dimes?

3. A man pays 15 shillings a week for his board in Portsmouth; how many dollars and cents is that price? Explanation. As 6 shillings make 1 dollar, find how many times 6 shillings there are in 15 shillings, and how many shillings over.

4. A laborer in Boston has 7 shillings and sixpence a day; how many dollars and cents will he get in 4 days?

5. If a laborer gets 6 shillings and ninepence for a day's work, and pays 2 shillings and sixpence out of it for a handkerchief, how many cents will he have left ?

6. A young man bought a pair of gloves in Lowell for 9 shillings; how many dollars and cents did he pay? If he had paid 8 shillings for them, how many dollars and cents would that sum have been?

7. If you buy a pair of boots in Portland for 16 shillings, how many dollars and cents must you pay for them?

8. If you buy a pair of stockings for 2 shillings and sixpence, and give 4 ninepences in payment, how much change must you receive back?

9. A farmer bought 3 gallons of molasses at 2 shillings and threepence a gallon; what must he pay for it in dollars and cents?

10. What number of cents are 5 shillings and threepence? 7 shillings and threepence? 9 shillings and threepence? 12 shillings and threepence ?

COMPOUND NUMBERS.

LESSON 93.

Quantities are divided into parts of different sizes, for the purposes of traffic and convenience; thus we measure salt in bushels, pecks, and quarts, 8 quarts making 1 peck, and 4 pecks 1 bushel. The parts or divisions are called denominations. Numbers expressing a quantity in different denominations are called compound numbers. Those heretofore used may be called simple numbers.

Recite the following Tables.

AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT.

Avoirdupois Weight is the common weight, and is used in weighing all common and coarse articles.

16 drams, sign dr......make 1 ounce,

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..make 1 pound, ...make 1 quarter,

sign, oz.

.sign, lb.

sign, qr.

4 quarters, or 112 lbs. make 1 hundred weight, sign, cwt. 20 hundred weight....make 1 ton,...

..sign, T.

This is the old manner of weighing. At present it is usual to buy and sell by the 100 pounds, and when the term ton is employed, it generally means 2,000 pounds.

TROY WEIGHT.

Troy Weight is used in weighing gold and silver.

24 grains, sign gr......make 1 pennyweight, ..sign, pwt. 20 pennyweights.... 12 ounces

..make 1 ounce,. ...make 1 pound, .

sign, oz. ..sign, lb.

How are quantities divided? For what purposes? Give an example. What are called denominations? Compound numbers? Simple numbers?

What is Avoirdupois Weight, and for what is it used?

What is it usual to buy and sell by, at present, in Avoirdupois Weight? What does the term ton generally mean? For what is Troy Weight used?

APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT.

Apothecaries' Weight is used in compounding medicines, but not in selling them. They are sold by Avoirdupois Weight.

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The pound and ounce in Apothecaries' Weight are the same as the pound and ounce in Troy Weight. 175 pounds Troy Weight, are equal to 144 pounds Avoirdupois Weight. There are 7,000 grains in 1 pound Avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains in 1 pound Troy.

LESSON 94.

LONG MEASURE.

Long Measure is used in measuring distances.

12 inches, sign in.. make 1 foot,.

3 feet.

....make 1 yard,

16 feet.

40 rods

8 furlongs.......make 1 mile,.

.make 1 rod, perch, or pole, sign, rod. ..make 1 furlong,

· ....

The following measures are used at sea.

6 feet.

3 miles

.make 1 fathom,

...make 1 league,

For what is Apothecaries' Weight used?

.sign, ft.

.sign, yd.

..sign, fur.

.sign, m.

.sign, fath. ..sign, lea.

What is the difference between the pound and ounce Apothecaries' Weight, and the pound and ounce Troy Weight? How many pounds, Troy Weight, are equal to 144 pounds, Avoirdupois Weight? How many grains are there in 1 pound Avoirdupois Weight? In 1 pound Troy Weight?

For what is Long Measure used?

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