Elementary Arithmetic by Charles Scott Venable

Author:Charles Scott Venable
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Pub. Co.
Published: 1888-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

9. Prom 68x2,345 take 59x1,906; how many remain ?

10. How many dollars per mile will a railroad cost, if it is 81 miles long and costs 1275 less than $5,000,000 ?

11. If the divisor is 8,604 and the quotient 378, what is the dividend ?

Ijj. The divisor is 75; the quotient, 38; and the remainder, 62. What is the dividend ?

13. The product is 95,533, and the multiplier 83. What is the multiplicand ?

14. Mr. Edwards bought 5 city lots for $1,265 ; $3,250 ; $2,575 ; $1,987 ; $2,638. He gave in part payment a $10,000 bill. How much did he then owe ?

15. What will be the united value of 500 horses at $125 each, 400 cows at $25, 325 sheep at $4, and 200 chickens at 10 cents ?

16. Sound travels 1,090 feet in a second. How far will it travel in 1 minute, or 60 seconds ?

17. If each freight car weighs 24,080 pounds, and the engine 140,000 pounds, what is the weight of a train of 5 cars and the engine ?

18. A land company spent $24,375 for 975 acres. What was the price per acre ?

19. A drover bought 238 hogs at $S, and 732 sheep at t3. How much did he pay for all ?

20. He sold the hogs at $6 and the sheep at $5. Did he gain or lose, and how much ?

21. How long would it take a train to go 25,000 miles, or around the world, going 625 miles a day ?

22. In one year there are 52 weeks. How many years are there in 3,796 weeks ?

23. The distance to the sun is about 93,000,000 miles. How long would it take a train running 620 miles a day to go that distance ?

24. An army of 6,500 men consume 6,500 rations per day. How long will 1,267,500 rations last the army ?

25. A manufacturer drew from bank $937 to pay some workmen. He paid a certain number $25 each, and found he had $12 remaining. How many workmen did he pay ?

26. A man sold property for $4,732, and took in payment 52 shares of railway-stock. What was the value of each share ?

27. A farmer sold 27 cords of wood at $5, and 47 hundredweight of tobacco at $7. He took in payment flour at $8 a barrel. How many barrels did he receive ?

28. Two trains start at 10 a.m. from two points 448 miles apart on a railway, and move towards each other, each with an average speed of 28 miles an hour. At what time will they meet ?

29. A gentleman left property to the amount of $20,000. He ordered by his will that, after paying his debts, amounting to $1,990, and a legacy of $720 to a charity, the rest should be equally divided among his seven children. How much would each child receive ?

30. A farmer exchanged 275 bushels of wheat at $1.00 a bushel for 500 bushels of corn. What did the corn cost him a bushel ?

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