1. If a duck flying 3⁄5 as fast as a hawk flies 90 miles in an hour, how fast does the hawk fly?
2. At 5⁄8 of a cent apiece how many eggs can I buy for $60?
3. At $.68 a pair how many pairs of overshoes can you buy for $816?
4. At $.13 a dozen how many dozen bananas can you buy for $3.12?
5. How many pecks of beans can be put into a box that will hold just 21 bushels?
6. Write answers:
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537 365 ? 36 1000 | Beginning at the bottom say 11, 18, and 2 (writing it in its place) are 20. 5, 11, 14, and 6 (writing it) are 20, 5, 10. The number, omitted, is 62. |
| a. | 581 97 364 ? 1758 | b. | 625 ? 90 417 2050 | c. | 752 414 130 ? 2460 | d. | 314 429 ? 76 1000 | e. | ? 845 223 95 2367 |
(8) Trivialities and absurdities.—Bonds should not be formed between insignificant or foolish questions and the labor of answering them, nor between the general arithmetical work of the school and such insignificant or foolish questions. The following are samples from recent textbooks of excellent standing:—
On one side of George's slate there are 32 words, and on the other side 26 words. If he erases 6 words from one side, and 8 from the other, how many words remain on his slate?