Progressive Arithmetic Volume 2 (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. 1906 Excerpt: ...was $ 1333.50. How deep was the well? 13. A train went from Kendallville, Ind., to Toledo, Ohio, a distance of 91 miles, in 1.25 hours. At what rate per hour did the train run? MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES 259. 1. The strawberries grown on 4.5 acres of land were sold for $2377.35. What was the income per acre? 2. A cow gave 5738.35 lb. of milk in a year. How many quarts of milk did she give, if 1 quart weighs 2.15 lb.? 3. The cost of building a new road 21.7 miles long was 16983.06. What was the cost per mile? 4. A California road 25 miles long was sprinkled with petroleum, 175.5 barrels to the mile. Find the cost of the petroleum at 70 per barrel. 5. A farmer drew his produce to market, a distance of 6.75 miles, at a cost of $1.755 per load. What was the cost of drawing a load per mile? 6. If it requires a flow of 3.77 gallons of water per minute to irrigate 1 acre of land, how many acres can be irrigated by a flow of 207.35 gallons per minute? 7. If.92 of an iceberg is under water, how many cubic feet of ice are there in an iceberg that has 196,880 cubic feet beneath the surface? 8. In the United States the average cost of living in 1860 was $115,191 per person, and in 1904, $97,192. How much less on the average did a year's living for a family of 5 persons cost in 1904 than in 1860? 9. It is 89.885 miles from Albion to Utopia, and 101.215 miles from Utopia to Carthage. Find the cost, at $.13 per mile, of the coal consumed by a locomotive in making a run from Albion to Carthage. 10. One year an electric company operated 128.18 miles of its own track and 24.28 miles of track leased from another company. The operating expenses of the road were $334,421.01. Find the operating expenses per mile of track. REVIEW PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIES 260. 1. A fair-sized colony of...