Elementary arithmetic, with brief notices of its history... by Robert Potts.

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CONCRETE FRACTIONS.
XIII.
1. How may any fractional parts of a given concrete number be
found?
2. What is meant by reducing one concrete number to the fraction
of another? Give examples.
3. Explain how a concrete fraction of one denomination is changed
to an equivalent fraction of another denomination.
4. What is the value of 5 of one guinea? and what fraction of Ono
guinea is 13s. I d.?
5. What is the value of I of 7 of % of ~12 12s. 6d.?
6. What part of ~9 8s. 9d. is ~8 13s. 0Od.?
7. Express 3s. 8-d. as the fraction of is. 63-d.; and Is. 63-d. as
the fraction of 3s. 81d.
8. What part of 2s. 6d. is equal to -- of Is. 4-1d.?
9. What fraction of one pound is - of - of 18s. 6-d.?
10. Which is the greater, -T of one pound or 2- of one guinea?
11. What fraction of a pound is 4s. 9M-d.? How many shillings is
the same fraction of a guinea?
12. Reduce 16s. 42d. to the fraction of a guinea.
13. Reduce - I of a pound to the fraction of a guinea; and conversely, 44 of a guinea to the fraction of a pound.
14. If -r of an estate be worth ~1,003 17s. 6d., what is the value
of the whole estate?
XIV.
1. Explain the method of adding and subtracting concrete fractional
numbers.
2. Add o of 6s. 8d., - of ~2 3s. 9d., and -T of ~4 14s. 5d.
3. Find the sum of 2 of A of ~7?, and a of ~5 16s. 7 d.
4. Add together ~1002, -Ir of 100 guineas, and -3 of 7 T of 1,00
crowns.
5. Add together - of 50 guineas, 2 of 2- of 13- moidores, and 7 of
11` crowns.
6. Express the sum of 5- of a guinea, 3 of a pound, and 70 of a
crown in the fraction of a guinea.
7. Add ~17, 98s., and 64d., expressing the sum in the fraction of
~100.
8. Take 5 of ~6 6s. 9d. from -4 of ~10 16s. 9d.
9. Find the difference of 2 of one guinea and - of a pound in
terms of the fraction of half a sovereign.