Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 20

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ARITHMETIC.

FIRST AND SECOND CLASSES.

  1. Explain the principle of the decimal system of notation. Extend the explanation to the notation of decimal fractions. Discuss the relative merits of the English and French systems of notation for numbers above nine hundred and ninety-nine millions.

  2. What is the square of 99999.

  3. Divide 74684164 by 8642.

  4. Add together 1/2, 1/3, 1/5, 1/8, and 1/9.

  5. What is the difference between 3/4 and 2/5? Reduce the answer to an improper fraction, and to a decimal fraction.

  6. State the rules for multiplying and dividing decimal fractions.

  7. Reduce 2 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 27 minutes to the fraction of a day.

  8. Find the value of 39 cwt., 10 lbs., @ £3 15s. 7 1/4d. cwt.

  9. If 3 cwt., 3 qrs. cost £5 15s., what will 3 cwt. cost?

  10. If 8 men can do a piece of work in 24 days, how many men can do seven times as much work in 6 days?

  11. Find the simple interest on £2883 6s. 8d. for 4 1/2 years, at 6 per cent.

  12. What will £700 amount to in 3 years at 6 per cent. compound interest?

  13. Find (1) the interest, (2) the discount, on £150 for 6 months, at 9 per cent.

  14. What are the uses of the Day-book, Cash-book, and Ledger respectively?

  15. What is the cost of painting the outside and inside of a box 7ft. 4in. long, 4ft. 8in. wide, and 3ft. 10in. deep, at 8 3/4d. per yard?

  16. What is the value of a stack of timber 98ft. 5in. long, 5ft. 4in. wide, and 3ft. thick, at 2s. 8d. per foot solid?

  17. Find by Duodecimals the capacity of a cube whose edge is 2ft. 8in.; and prove the truth of the result by vulgar fractions.

NOTE.—15, 16, and 17 are for men only.

HISTORY, SACRED AND BRITISH.

THIRD CLASS TEACHERS.

  1. State briefly what you know of each of the sons of Jacob.

  2. Write the particulars of the death and burial of Joseph.

  3. What events are connected with each of the following places:—Haran, Bethel, Mahanaim, Rephidim, Gilgal, Mount Tabor, Mount Carmel, Ashdod, Mizpeh, Adullam, Makkedah, Mount Gilboa, Zarephath, Capernaum, Bethany, Joppa, Paphos, Corinth?



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