16. If 27 hogsheads of rum, containing 108 gallons each, cost $2202, how much was it per gallon? Ans. 75 cts. 17. A man left his estate amounting to £7000 by will, as follows, viz. If His wife being pregnant. If the child should be a son, he was to have two thirds, and the mother one. a daughter, she was to have one third, and the mother two. She was delivered of a son, and a daughter; how much must each have, agreeably to the will. Answer. The widow, The son, £2000. 4000. The daughter, 1000. 18. There were 56 men who paid 16s. 3d. each, at an entertainment, how much was the whole bill? Ans.45 10. at 75 cents per gallon; 114, at 96 cents; No. 19. Bought 4 hogsheads of rum as follows, viz. No. 1, containing 108 gallons, No 2, 111, at 80 cents; No. 3, 4, 120, at 90 cents per gallon; how much did the whole cost? Ans. 388,39,5. 20. At 3 d. per lb. what cost 100 barrels of beef, each weighing net, 200 lb ? Ans. 191 13 4. 21. Bought 2000 quintals of fish, which being damaged, I threw away of it, and sold the remainder for 15s. per quintal; what did it come to ? Ans. 187 10. PRACTICE. Practice is an easy method of finding the whole value of any given number of ounces, pounds, gallons, hogsheads, &c. by having the price of one given. NOTE: In some cases Multiplication of Federal Money, or Compound Multiplication, will be found preferable to this Rule, but in many, this is to be preferred. and then divide that quotient by 12, and the next quogiven number of articles by the aliquot parts of a penny, When the given price is less than a penny, divide the tient by 20, for pounds, &c. 1 CASE II. When the given price is an aliquot part of a shilling, divide the given number by the aliquot part, and the quotient will be the value in shillings, which must be reduced to pounds. If the given price is not an aliquot part of a shilling, divide by some aliquot part, then take parts of that aliquot part, &c. |