Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention

by Henry Putnam Stearns

e. What was the debt of the United States at the close of the Revolution?

2.—Spell the following words and give the definition of them (being prepared to write both the spelling and definition as they are announced by the teacher):

Clarify, Pyrenees, judgment, leguminous, critique, pistachio, deceit, scissors, superficies, idiom, anodyne, filigree, monody, cartouch, committee, tobacco.

3.—Work out and hand in on paper solutions of the following problems:

a. What number is that from which if you take ⁸⁄14, the remainder will be ⅓?

b. What number is that to which if you add ²⁄9 of 11, the sum will be 44⅗?

c. What number multiplied by 11 will give 44⅗ for a product?

d. What number divided by 4²⁄7 will give ²⁴³⁄324 for a quotient?

e. What divisor will give 4²⁄7 for a quotient, 66 being the dividend?

f. What number is that ⁸⁄14 of which exceeds ½ by 4²⁄7?