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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...96. 3.6504-5-90 106. 183.275+10,000 97. 45.63-5-1,500 107. 1.7632-5-1,600 98. 130.13 + 1,100 108. 1.5639 + 130 99..8712 + 60 109. 614.4 + 120 100. 3.075 + 5,000 110..576 + 800 101..07056 + 140 111..8008 + 7,000 693. Questions from United States Oivil Service Examinations. 1. Express decimally. 2. Divide 6 by.005. 3. Divide 714,394,756 by 1,754. 4. What is the sum of 7,569,813,420 2,850,497,361 4,961,738,053 6,407,581,329 1,098,635,247 9,768,015,234 3,891,437,205 5,076,921,438 7,804,193,826 1,073,945,862 3,196,478,250 4,207,561,839 9,476,541,083 2,851,370,694 5. A merchant buys goods for $2,965, and loses 15-hundredths by damage. How much money does he lose? 6. Five-eighths of 48 is-f of how many times 9? ( of 48 = of? X 9 = x 9 x?) 7. A man bought a cargo of wool and sold seven thousand forty-five ten-thousandths of it. What part of the cargo had he left? MISCELLANEO US. 694. Slate Exercises. 1. Find the cost of 24,400 bricks @ $6.25 per M. Ans. $6.25 X 24.400 =$6.25 X 24.4. (How do we divide by 1,000?) 2. 760 pounds of hay @ 95 cents per cwt. (100 lb.). 3. 48,600 laths @ $2.80 per M. 4. 39,250 stamped envelopes @ $21.30 per thousand. 5. 1,875 pounds of straw @ 68 cents per cwt. 6. 108,745 Philadelphia bricks @ $22.00 per M. 7. 14,860 oranges @ 75 per 100. 8. 2,376 eggs @ 13J per doz. 9. 4,500 cigars @ $35 per M. 10. 28 doz. wax candles @ $13.50 per gross (144). 695. Solve by cancellation where possible: 11. 38,648 lb. of wheat @ 90 per bu. (60 lb.). 12. 18,964 lb. of coal @ $5 per ton (2,000 lb.). 13. 48,576 lb. of oats @ 36 $ per bu. (32 lb.). 14. 69,104 lb. of rye @ 91 per bu. (56 lb.). 15. 74,816 lb. of corn @ 48 per bu. (56 lb.). 16. 360 meters of cloth @ $1.10 per yd. (1 meter = 39.37 inches). 17. Cost in United States money of 386 hats @ 24 francs ea...
