Arithmetic by Jacob William Albert Young Lambert Lincoln Jackson

Author:Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: D. Appleton
Published: 1904-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

The common miits for measuring grains, fruits, and other dry commodities are the pint, quart, peck, and buthel.

There are besides these the half-peck and half-bushel measures.

1. If the pint measure is filled with sand, and the sand is poiu-ed into the quart measure, how many times must this be done to fill the quart measure ? How many pints are there in a quart ?

2. How many times must the quart measure be used to fill the peck measiu-e? How many quarts are there in a peck ?

3. How many times must the peck measure be used to fill the bushel measure? One bushel = — pecks.

4. How many quarts are there in a bushel ? How many pints are there in a peck ?

5. A pint is what part of a quart ? A quart is what part of a peck ? A pint is what part of a peck ? A peck is — of a bushel.

6. — pints = 1 quart. — quarts = 1 peck.

— pecks = 1 bushel. — pt. = 1 qt.

— qt. =1 pk. — pk. =1 bu.

Material: Books, blocks, and erasers, or better, bag^s of sand weighing^ from z pound to 5 pounds. A set of weights is useful.

1. Which is the heavier, your book or your pencil ?

2. Which is the Ughter, your book or your tablet ?

3. Which is the heavier, your book or a blackboard eraser ?

4. Of several blocks select the heaviest; the lightest.

5. When one thing is twice as heavy as another it is said to weigh twice as much. Select two blocks one of which you think weighs twice as much as the other.

6. Which is the heavier, |^ of a load of coal or f ofit?

7. Which is the heavier, a load of wood or a load of coal of the same size ?

8. When you buy sugar at the store, in what unit do you express the amount wanted ?

9. How many 1-pound sacks of sugar weigh as much as a 5-pound sack ?

10. How many 5-pound sacks of sugar weigh as much as 20 pounds of butter ?

11. How many 5-pound sacks of salt weigh 50 pounds ?

12. A 10-pound sack of salt weighs how many times as much as a 2-pound sack of rice ?

13. How many 8-pound jars of butter weigh as much as a 56-pound tub ?

14. If a bar of soap weighs ^ of a pound, what is the weight of 100 bars? What is the weight of 5 boxes each containing 100 bars ?

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