13. Multiply 82 ten-thousandths by 7 and 5 hundredths, and divide the product by 705 millionths.

14. Find the cost of 96 feet of pine lumber at $25 per M, and 1650 laths at $3 per M.

15. A horse costing $160 is sold for $180. What is the gain per cent? What is the loss per cent when a horse costing $180 is sold for $160 ?

16. A merchant sold 600 barrels of flour for $3450, at a loss of 4 per cent. What did the flour cost him per

barrel?

17. 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?

18. Find the number of days from March 2, 1903, to August 11, 1903.

19. Find the interest on a note for $250, dated Jan. 21, 1904, and paid May 30, 1904, at 6%.

20. Divide 22.5 by 51.75, and express the result in the form of a fraction.

21. By the census of 1890, the population of a certain city was 26,275. By the census of 1900, its population was 31,530. Find the per cent of increase.

22. Each of two boys bought 100 apples for a dollar. The first boy sold his, 4 apples for 5; the second sold his, 5 apples for 64. Which boy gains the more per cent? How much more?

23. A quantity of coal was bought for $900. For what must it be sold to gain 33% ?

24. By selling a house for $5760, a man gained on the cost 25%. What was the cost?

25. Change to other methods of expression, 1, 1, .371, 4, .16.

26. A note of $1260, dated July 5, 1904, was paid June 7, 1906, with interest at 8%. What was the amount paid?

27. A flock of sheep has been increased by 250% of its number, and now numbers 1050. What was the original number?

28. Bought a house for $6240, and sold it so as to gain 35%. What did I sell it for?

29. Sold goods at a loss of 20%, an actual loss of $57.50. What was the first cost?

30. The milk from a herd of 25 Jersey cows, sold at 6¢ a quart, amounted in one summer to $2025. How many quarts were sold, and what was the average quantity from each cow?

31. A woman has three children. She pays for each $ 15 a year for having his clothes made, $1.50 a month for his mending, and $0.35 a week for his washing. How much could she save in a year if she knew how to wash, make clothes, and mend?

32. A farmer exchanged 340 bushels of corn worth 75¢ per bushel, for barley worth $1 per bushel, and oats worth 50 per bushel. How many bushels of each did he receive, the quantity of barley and oats being equal?

33. A pole stands in the mud, in the water, and 32 ft. in the air. How long is the pole?

34. Bought flour for $8.25, and sold it for $9. What is the per cent of gain?

35. Bought flour for $9 and sold it for $8.25. What is the per cent of loss?

36. If two-thirds of a yard of silk can be bought for $3, how many yards can be bought for $33?

37. A drover sold 250 sheep for $1150, which was 15% more than they cost. What was the cost of each sheep?

38. Find a common divisor of 72 and 90.

39. How many feet of paper, 18 inches wide, will paper the sides of a room 16 feet by 14 feet, and 10 feet high, deducting 174 square feet for doors and windows?

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436,

40. Find the sum of 3, 4, 48, 24, 45, in decimals, correct to fourth place.

41. The dividend is 9876, the quotient is 87, the remainder is 45. Find the divisor.

42. Change .03125 to a common fraction in smallest terms.

43. Bought a hogshead of sugar containing 848 pounds for $75.86, and paid $3.85 freight and cartage. At what price per pound must it be sold to gain 20% ?

44. To of add of, and reduce to lowest terms; multiply the sum so obtained by 13, and reduce to a mixed number; from the product subtract 3, and reduce to lowest terms; divide the remainder by 5, and convert the quotient into a decimal fraction; add 1.1; multiply by 2.5; subtract .9; and divide the remainder by .007.

45. A can weigh a certain quantity of goods in 15 days by working 7 hours a day. How long will it take him to do the same work by working 9 hours a day?

46. In an example in division the remainder is 14, the divisor is 16, and the quotient is 18. What is the dividend? 47. Solve by cancellation:

How many pieces of cotton cloth, each piece containing 42 yards, at 91 per yard, can be bought for 14 firkins of butter, each containing 56 pounds, at 19 per pound?

48. What must be the depth of a bin which is 4 ft. wide and 6 ft. long, to contain 40 bushels oats?

49. A farmer sold 9875 pounds hay at $12 per ton, and took in part payment 5000 feet of boards at $11 per thousand. How much remained due him?

50. Bought 80 barrels of flour at $6 per barrel, paying for freight $30. At what price must I sell it per barrel to gain 30% on the total cost?

51. What is the amount of $720.50, for 3 yr. 5 mo. 19 da., at 6 per cent?

52. Three men buy a house for $2500. A pays $500, B pays $900, C pays $1100. They rent it for $250. What is each one's share of the rent?

53. If 12.875 acres of land cost $1030, what will 4.75 acres cost?

54. Write three-fourths of one per cent, first as a pure decimal, and again as a common fraction.

55. If a man paid $183 for a load of hay weighing 14 tons, what would he pay at the same rate for of a ton?

56. If 11 weavers in 9 days weave 1584 yards, what will 1 man do in 1 day? 6 men in 7 days?

57. What is the exact interest of $500, for 100 days, at 8 per cent? (Take 365 days to the year.)

58. Divide the product of 83 and 113 by their difference. 59. A merchant bought 340 bushels of potatoes at 80¢ per bushel; 20 per cent of them proved worthless, and were thrown away. He sold the remainder at $1.10 a bushel. What did he gain or lose?

60. Divide eighty-four and eighty-four hundredths by forty-eight thousandths.

61. How much money in silver dollars, 412 grains each, will weigh 165 pounds Avoirdupois, 7000 grains to the pound?

62. What is the amount of $1395, at 4 per cent, for 7 mo. 24 da.

63. A coal dealer buys 150 tons of coal, 2240 pounds each, at $4.50 per ton. He sells it at $4.75 per ton, giving What is his profit?

2000 pounds to the ton.

64. What is the value of (3 of 3 of 33+83)÷(1037)? 65. How many bushels of grain will fill a bin 8.5 feet long, 4.25 feet wide, and 3 feet deep?

66. Three workmen receive $283.50 for doing a piece of work. One worked 32 days, the second worked 53 days, the third worked 41 days. What is the share of each?

67. A man bought silverware for $120, and sold it for $250 less 33 and 10 per cent. What was his profit per

cent?

68. What is the interest on $356.75, at 4 per cent, for 3 yr. 5 mo. 14 da. ?

69. A note for $600, drawn Jan. 16, payable 4 months after date, is discounted March 25 at a bank, at 6 per cent. What are the proceeds?

70. A dry-goods merchant sells goods 12 per yard more than their cost, and realizes a profit of 8 per cent. What is the cost per yard?

71. A man bought 396 acres of land for $40,293. He sold 150 acres at $120 per acre, 134 acres at $80 per acre, and the remainder at cost. Did he gain or lose, and how much?

72. If 443 yards of calico cost $1.99, how much must be paid for 80 yards?

73. Divide the sum of 75 thousandths and 75 ten-thousandths by the difference between 75 hundredths and 75 tenths.

74. What number divided by 320 gives 47 for quotient and 163 for remainder?

75. In a schoolroom there are 35 pupils and a teacher. The room is 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 15 feet high. How many cubic feet of air space has each person?

76. A merchant sold a quantity of flour for $282, losing 6 per cent. How much money did he lose?