A Collection of Questions. 177
PART V.
A Collection of Questions set down promiscuously for the greater trial of the foregoinq Rules.
(1) Write down two millions, five hundred and two thousand, two hundred and five.
(2) What is the value of 14 barrels of soap, at 4£d. per 1b. each barrel containing 254 lbs. ? Ans. £66 : 13 : 6.
(3) If £100. principal gain £5. interest in 12 months, what principal will gain £20. in 8 months ? Ans. £600.
(4) What number is that, from which if the square of 14 be deducted, and to the remainder the square of 12 be added, the sum will be 250 ? " Ans. 302.
(5) A and B, traded together; A put in £320. for five months, B £460. for 3 months, and they gained £100.— what must each man receive ?
Am. A £53 : 13 : 9f|f. and B £46 : 6 : 2^.
(6) How many yards of cloth at 17s. 6d. per yard, can I have for 13 cwt. 2 qrs. of wool at 14d. per lb. ?
Ans. 100 yards, '6\ qrs.
(7) What number added to the cube of 21, will make the sum equal to 113 times 147 ? Ans. 7350.
(8) If I buy 1000 ells of linen, Flemish, for £90.—what may I sell it at per ell in London to gain £10. by the whole?
Ans. 3s. id.
(9) A has 648 yards of cloth at 14s. per yard, ready money, but in barter will have 16s. ; B has wine at £42. per tun, ready money; the question is—how much wine must be given for the cloth, and what is the price of a tun of wine in barter ? Ans. £48. the tun; and 10 tuns, 3 hhds.,
12^ gallons of wine must be given for the cloth.
(10) A jeweller sold jewels to the value of £1200. for which he received in part 876 French pistoles, at 16s. 6d. each—what sum remains unpaid ? Ans. £477 : 6s.
(11) An oilman bought 417 cwt. 1 qr. 15 lbs. gross weight, of train oil, tare 20 lbs. per 112 lbs.—how many nett gallons were there, allowing 7J lbs. to a gallon 1 Ans. 5120.
(12) I bought three score pieces of holland for three times as many pounds, and sold them again for four times as much: but if they had cost me as much as I sold them for—what should I have sold them for to gain after the same rate ?
Ans. £320.
