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5. A person pays $103 with 32 bills, some of them $2 bills, the others $5 bills. How many of each does he use?

6. For 25 head of pigs and sheep, a farmer received $145. How many of each did he sell, if he sold the former at $7 each, the latter at $5 each?

7. 10 oranges and 4 peaches cost 384; 6 oranges and 7 peaches cost 32. Find the cost of an orange. Of a peach.

8. 5 pounds of tea and 3 pounds of coffee cost $3.75; 8 pounds of tea and 1 pound of coffee cost $5.05. What is each worth per pound?

9. A farmer buys a certain number of horses at $125 each, four times as many cows at $45 each, eight times as many sheep at $10 each, and half as many pigs at $5 each, spending $1,550 for all. How many of each does he buy?

10. A man paid 75¢ for 2 pounds of raisins and 3 pounds of cheese. 5 pounds of raisins and 2 pounds of cheese at the same price would have cost 94. What did each cost per pound?

11. The sum of two numbers is 19. The sum of the second number and ten times the first, minus the sum of the first and ten times the second, equals 45. What are the numbers?

12. Reduce to an equivalent fraction, the sum of whose numerator and denominator shall be 126.

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13. What fraction equivalent to has 147 for the difference between its numerator and denominator?

(x-y-147. Why?)

14. 10 pounds of coffee at 30 per pound are mixed with x pounds of coffee at 25¢ per pound. What is x equal to, when the mixture is worth 26¢ per pound?

25x+(10 × 30) = 26 (10 + x).

15. A grocer mixes green tea costing 60 per pound witk black tea costing 40 per pound. He uses 100 pounds in all, and the mixed tea costs him 48 per pound. How many pounds of each does he use?

Let x

number of pounds of black tea; y-number of green. Then x+y= number of pounds of mixed tea.

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Compare the two equations (d) and (e), which contain the same two unknown quantities.

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Substituting values of y and z in (a), we have

3x+10-712, 3x=9, x= = 3.

Ans. x= 3,

y = 5,

2= 7.

2. Find the values of the unknown quantities in the following equations:

x-3y+2z 3 (a)

2x+y+3z= 22 (6)

5x+2y+7x=51 (c)

Multiply (a) by 2, and subtract from (b). Multiply (a) by 5, and subtract from (c). This gives two equations, each of which contains two unknown quantities.

Compare these two resulting equations, and eliminate y.

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1. A man placed of his capital at 5% and the other third at 6%. At the end of a year, capital and interest amounted to $31,600. What was his capital?

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2. A has 18 chestnuts more than B. If each finds 4 more, A will have four times as many as B. each?

How many chestnuts has

3. Two mechanics earn together $8 per day. One works 23 days and the other 17 days, for which they receive together $166. What does each earn per day?

4. The sum of the first and the second of three numbers is 55, of the first and the third 62, of the second and the third 83. What are the numbers?

5. The sum of two numbers is 53. Four times the first is 20 more than twice the second. Find the numbers.

6. A certain sum of money is divided among four persons. The first takes of it, the second takes of the remainder, the of what then remains, the fourth receives the What is the share of each of the other three?

third takes

balance, $24.

7. A merchant sold a lot of goods for $510, thereby losing 2 of their cost. What did the goods cost?

8. A man collected a bill for a physician and deducted of the amount for his services. If he gave the physician $147, what was the amount collected?

9. Divide 130 acres of land among three persons, giving the first 27 acres more than the second, and the second 133 acres more than the third.

10. A merchant has sold of a piece of cloth, and has remaining 16 yards more than of the piece. How many yards did. the piece contain originally?

11. A servant is engaged for a year for $280 and a suit of clothes; he leaves at the end of six months, and receives $130 and the suit. What is the value of the clothes?

MULTIPLICATION OF ALGEBRAIC QUANTITIES.

1225. Multiply x + 3 by x+4.

The product is equal to x times (x+3)+ 4 times (x+3).

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NOTE.—x2 is read x square. The 2 is called an exponent.

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