Arithmetic On The Productive S PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... 20. l0d. lfqr. 34. What is 10l per cent. of 2cwt. 3qr. 71b.? A. 2cwt. 3qr. 1 lib. + 35. What is 10 per cent. of 5001. 6fur. 30rd.? A. 501. 27rd. CASE III. To find the rate from having its value given. 30. What per cent. is $30 of $500? Since 0 per cent. of $500 is found by case i, thus, $500x.06=$30: then $30-$500 must reproduce the rate. RULE. 37. Of the two given sums, divide the one expressing the value oj the rate by the other. 38. What per cent. of $800 is $56? A. 7 per cent. 39. What per cent. of $700 is $63? A. 9 per cent. 40. What per cent. of $200 is $30? A, 15 per cent. 41. If a man has 300 bushels of rye, and sells 60 bushels, what per cent. of the whole does he sell?. X 20 per cent. 42. Recollect that the rate per cent. is always equal to so many hundredths; thus.06 is-i-inr; therefore, it is 6 percent.;.09 is-i-J = 9 per cent.;.12=tvj= 12 per cent. 43. Then, as the rate per cent. is restricted to two decimal places, call the other figures on the right of hundredths in the quotient decimals of hundredths, or of the rate per cent. 44. Thus, .062 is 6T3-=6i per cent.;.1525 is 15T=15J per cent.;, .27375= 27T3,"r=27f per cent. 45. What per cent. of $20 w $1.70? A..085= 8f 46. What per cent. of $200 is $6.40? A..032= 3. 47. What per cent. of $300 is $13,20? A..044=4. 48. What per cent, of $60.25 is $1.6995? A. 7j. 49. What per cent. of $200 is $1? $1-200=.005, and as tliere are no hundredths, the 5 is Tv=! Per cent. A.-J per cent. 50. What per cent. is 45 cents of $60? A..0075=-=?. 51. Suppose a lawyer charges 5 for collecting a debt of 4,000, what per cent. is it? A..00125=TV2 =J. 52. Suppose a grocer finds that in retailing 2,500 gallons of molasses, it does not hold out by 10 gallons, what per...