How much did he still owe?



WBITTEN EXERCISES. 203

18. A car line is 12 miles long. If a car makes 6
round trips daily, haw many miles will it run during the
month of July?

19. If 8 cords of wood are worth $32, what are 19
cords worth?

20. America was discovered in 1492; the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth in 1620. How many years from the
discovery of America to the landing of the Pilgrims?

21. A man paid $175 for a horse, which was 5 times
as much as he paid for a cow. How much did he pay
for both?

22. The multiplicand was 3962; the multiplier was
186. What was the product?

23. If the divisor is 55, and the dividend is 9625, what
is the quotient?

24. The floor of a room 16 ft. long contains 192 square
feet. What is the width?

25. How many marble slabs each 10 in. by 2 ft. will
cover a floor 10 ft. square?

26. A baker has 200 loaves of bread. He sells i of
them at 6^ each, and the remainder at 5^ each. How
much does he get for his bread?

27. If 3 oranges cost 10^, how many times 10^ must
be paid for a dozen oranges?

28. A farmer clipped 1000 lb. of wool from his sheep.
If each fleece weighed 5 lb., how many sheep had he?

29. A sugar plantation produces 2000 barrels of sugar,
averaging 250 lb. in weight. At 2^ a pound, what is the
value of the sugar?

30. A man earns $2.50 a day and pays 50^ a day for
board. If he does not work on Sundays, how much will
he have left this month after paying his board?



204 SCHOOL ABITHMETIO.
