Rational Elementary 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. 1899 Excerpt: ...What is the difference between 116 and eight 10's? What is the difference between 85 and six 10's? What is the difference between 93 and four 10's? 1. If a mait works 10 hours a day, how many hours does he work in one week not including Sunday? 2. How many inches in 10 feet? 3. How many eggs in 10 dozen? 4. How many months in 10 years? 5. How many square feet in 1 square yard? In 10 square yards? 6. If there are 10 square feet of window glass in one win dow, how many in 8 windows? 7. Mr. Reed had 70 sheep. Wolves killed three-tenths of them. How many were left? 8. How many square inches in a 10 inch square? 9. How many blocks of wood 1 foot square will be required to pave a hall that is 10 feet wide and 11 feet long? 10. How many square feet in the walls of a room that is 10 feet high and 10 feet square? 11. It is 6 miles to a village. A man goes and returns 5 days each week. How far does he travel in 1 week? In 3 weeks? 6 weeks? 10 weeks? 12. There are 10 rooms in a house. In each room there are 2 pictures and 3 windows. How many pictures and windows in the house? 13. In one car each seat will hold 5 persons, in another 6 per sons and in another 3. In each car there are 10 seats. How many persons may be seated in the 3 cars? 14. A train of 4 cars has in the first car 45 persons, in the second 54, in the third 65, in the fourth 59. How many persons are in the train? 15. A ten story building has 10 windows in each of the first 6 stories, and 8 windows in each of the remaining 4 stories. How many windows in the entire building? 16. A table is 10 feet long, 4 feet wide. What is its peri meter? Its area? 1. Review page 80. 2. One dollar is written $1 or $1.00. One dollar and fifty cents is written $1.50. 3. The point after the $1 shows that the two figures on t...