If paper is worth 40 cents per pound, what is the cost of one sheet of paper weighing six pounds to the ream? (480 sheets equals one ream.)
An office uses 98 pounds of twine per year in tying packages. Allowing 178 yards to the pound, how many packages are tied if each requires an average of 1-1/2 feet?
Multiply 696.6 by 785.09 and divide the product by 25.
A carrier makes 4 trips a day, carrying 64 letters and 32 papers each trip. The letters average in weight 1/4 oz. each, and the papers 2 oz. each. How many pounds of mail does he deliver in a day? (16 oz. to the pound.)
Multiply 26.32 by 3, and to the product add 2.04.
Three gross of lead pencils are divided equally among the clerks in a post office, giving to each clerk eleven and leaving a remainder of fourteen pencils. How many clerks are there in the office.
Third Subject—Letter Writing.
The competitor is given his choice of one of two subjects on which to write a letter of not less than 125 words. One year the subjects were on the advantages of city and of country life. At another time the candidates were required to tell what they thought of our colonial expansion in Porto Rico and the Philippines. In a recent test one of the subjects was “Give your views as to the advantages derived from free public libraries in the principal cities of your State.” The object of this exercise is to test the candidate’s skill in writing an intelligent letter. Errors in form and address, in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, syntax and style, count against the competitor. The rules for rating will be found under a separate [chapter].
Fourth Subject—Penmanship.
The rating on penmanship will be determined by legibility, rapidity, neatness, and general appearance and by correctness and uniformity in the formation of words, letters, and punctuation marks in the exercise of the subject of copying from plain copy. No particular style of penmanship is preferred.