60 EXAMINATION PAPERS. Selected from the Reports of the Civil Service Commissioners, 1856-1864. ARITHMETIC. ADDITION. Set to all Candidates who are required to show a knowledge of Arithmetic, with the exception of Tidewaiters, Weighers, Letter-carriers, and Messengers. It is important that the addition should be quite correct; additional credit will also be given for rapidity. [N.B.-In competitive examinations, 12 columns were given instead of 3, with the following directions:"Add up as many of the columns as you can in the time allowed (of an hour), placing the answers in the spaces below the columns.' (A.) ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC. No. 1. Set to Office Keepers, Messengers, &c. 1. Write down in figures seventy thousand one hundred and three. 2. Write out in words the number 607035. The working of the following is to be shown up :- 7. Multiply 4794601 by 304. 8. Multiply £9,479. 7s. 51⁄2d. by 8. 9. Multiply £7,321. 2s. 9 d. by 97. 10. Divide 2572347 by 7. 11. Divide 2749344 by 57. 12. Divide £2,936. 7s. 6d. by 6. N.B.-In working the above correctness is of the greatest importance. Additional credit, however, will be given for doing them quickly. No. 2. (Including the different Weights and Measures.) (Set, recently, to Out-door Officers in the Customs.) 1. Write down under each other and add together the following numbers, 367421, 5267, 924, 1356, 17890, 27, and 141109. 2. Subtract 5207 from 207202. The working of the following is to be shown up : 10. Multiply 5301201 by 75023. 11. Multiply £4828. 6s. 4 d. by 7. 12. Multiply 5 tons 3 cwt. 2 qrs. 4 lbs. by 39. 13. Multiply £4516. 11s. 6d. by 620. 14. Divide 753477205876 by 5. 15. Divide 679475247390 by 341. 16. Divide 5 yds. 2 ft. 11 in. by 12. 17 Divide £3509768. 16s. 1d. by 133. 18. In 49 tons 15 cwt. 2 qrs. 14 lbs. how many pounds? 19. In 467 tuns 3 hhds. 26 gallons 2 qrts. 1 pt. of wine how many pints? 20. In 2160000 cubic inches how many loads of hewn timber? 21. Reduce 159 quarters of corn to quarts. No. 3. Set to Letter-carriers and Rural Messengers in the Post Office. (Time allowed, 15 minutes.-Time occupied, from to |