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Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 32

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✨ Arithmetic Examination Questions

ARITHMETIC.

What is Arithmetic?

What is Notation?

What is Numeration?

How are numbers expressed in modern Arithmetic?

How do you estimate the local value of figures?

Write out the Roman notation table up to one hundred.

Write down in words the numbers signified by the following expressions:—
365. 2240. 30009. 79503046. 680000042. 794628900640030004.

Add together—27515436 + 8937549 + 37246375 + 48795 + 378 + 2863487 + 864937 + 3894 + 7863927 + 826957.

Take 400004 from 400000000.

Take 100009000006 from 200020009030.

Multiply 46481 × 936.

Multiply 8320900 × 1328.

Divide 47839 ÷ 42.

Divide 75843639426 ÷ 8593.

Reduce 1234567 farthings to pounds.

Reduce £497 12s. 8d. to farthings.

Reduce £1000 to guineas.

Reduce 35 cwt. 2 qrs. 19 lbs. to pounds.

Reduce 100,000,000 ozs. to hundreds.

Reduce 573911 yards to miles.

Reduce 25 miles and 34 feet to feet.

Reduce 28 yds. 3 qrs. 2 nls. to nails.

Reduce 1325419 square inches to square yards.

Reduce 1 day 4 hours 12 secs. to seconds.

Add together 15s. 8¼d. + 18s. 10½d. + 16s. 6½d. + 19s. 3d. + 16s. 7½d. + 5s. 8¼d. + 13s. 9d. + 12s. 7½d. + 15s. 1¼d. + 11s. 4¾d. + 9s. 1¼d. + 10s. 9½d. + 17s. 4½d. + 18s. 4d. + 4s. 5½d. + 3s. 10½d.

Multiply 11s. 4½d. × 168.

I have in my purse 46 guineas, 11 sovereigns, 18 half-sovereigns, 1 crown, 3 half-crowns, 9 shillings, 10 sixpences, 4 fourpenny-pieces, 9 threepenny-pieces: how many pounds, shillings, and pence have I?

Gold is worth £3 12s. 6d. per ounce. A miner works for 87 days, and raises 1¼ ozs. per diem: what weight of gold will he have? What is its value? He then sells 43 ozs. 16 dwts. 3 grs. How much has he left, and what is its value?

Iron is worth £14 10s. per ton. I have a heap of bar-iron, consisting of 1467 bars each weighing 13 lbs.: what weight have I, and what is its value?

CHRISTCHURCH:

Printed, under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester Street, by Croasdaile Ward and William Reeves, Official Printers for the time being to the said Government.

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The Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings (depicted) were constructed between 1858 and 1865 and are the only purpose-built provincial government buildings in New Zealand still in existence.

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