The 'Eclectic' Arithmetic (Paperback)

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. 1874 Excerpt: ...last 48 horses at the rate of three-quarters of a peck per day for each horse? 10.--If a man drink half-a-pint of ale at dinner, and twice this quantity at supper every day, how much does he drink in three years, ana what does it cost him each year at the rate of twenty pence per gal.? II.--From a cask containing sixty gals., 7 gals. r qt. rj pt. leaked out, and the remainder was divided among 17 persons, how much did each receive? 12.--How many dozen bottles, six to a gal., can be filled from a pipe of wine? 13.--A corn factor buys three hundred and fifty qrs. of barley and sells to A 25 qrs. 3 bush. 2 pks., to B half this quantity, to C as much as A and B together, and to D three-times as much as he sold to A, B, and C together. How much had he left? 14.--A market gardener retails fifty bushels of apples with a (so-called) half-peck neasure which is one-eighth short. By how much does he cheat h1s customers? 15.--Express the difference in quarts between 6 hhd. of beer and four times this number of barrels. 16.--A publican drew from a hhd. of wine at different times 5 gals. 1 pt.; 9 gals. 2 qts. pt.; 15 gal. 3 gills; 17 gals. 4J pts.; and 6 bottles each holding 5 gills. By how much did the quantity taksn out exceed that left in? 17.--A quantity of wheat was put into two hundred and twenty-eight sacks, each containing 2 bush. 3 pks. 1 gal., how much wheat was there?. 18.--Find the total cost of 5 qrs. 9 pks. of oats at 10jd. per pk; fifty doz. pint bottles of porter at half-a-crown per gal.; and 7 ankers of brandy at a shilling, all but a half-penny per gill. PROBLEMS--EXEBCISE 64. 1.--Find the continued product of twelve yrs. two hundred and eighty dys. ten hours twenty-one min. by eight, seventeen, ninety-nine. 2.--Find the fifth, sixty-third, and eight hu...