Question 4. Correct any errors in spelling which you find in the following sentences, writing your letters so plainly that no one of them can be mistaken: 

Unquestionebly every federil offeser should be able to spell corectly the familier words of his own languege.

Lose her hankercheif and elivate her head immediatly or she will spedily loose her life by strangelation.

SECOND SUBJECT.

Question 1. Multiply 2341705 by 23870 and divide the product by 6789.

Give operation in full.

Question 2. Divide two hundred and five thousand two hundred and five, and two hundred and five ten-thousandths, by one hundred thousand one hundred, and one hundredth.

Question 3. Multiply 10-2/3 by 7-1/8 and divide the product by 9-1/2, reducing the same to the simplest form.

Give operation in full.

Question 4. The annual cost of the public schools of a city is $36,848.  What school-tax must be assessed, the cost of collecting being 2 per cent., and 6 per cent of the assessed tax being uncollectible?

Give operation in full.

Question 5. Add 7-3/4, 3/5 of 6-2/9, 8-11/12, 6-1/2 divided by 8-1/8, and reduce to lowest terms.

Give operation in full.

Question 6. The Government sold 3000 old muskets at 22-1/2 per cent, of their cost.  The purchaser becoming insolvent paid only 13 per cent. of the price he agreed to pay; that is, he paid $900.  What did each musket cost the Government?

Give operation in full.

Question 7. What will it cost to carpet a room 36 feet wide by 72 feet long with 3/4 width carpet at $2.12 per yard, including cost of carpet-lining at 11 cents a square yard and 12 cents a yard for making and laying the carpet?

Give operation in full.

Question 8.  A owned 7/8 of a ship and sold 4/5 of his share to B, who sold 5/9 of what he bought to C, who sold 6/7 of what he bought to D. What part of the whole vessel did D buy?

Give operation in full.

Question 9.  A man bought a cargo of wool and sold seven thousand and forty-five ten-thousandths of it.  How much had he left?

Give operation in full in decimal fractions.

Question 10.  A merchant imported from Bremen 32 pieces of linen of 32 yards each, on which he paid for the duties, at 24 per cent, $122.38, and other charges to the amount of $40.96.  What was the invoice value per yard, and the cost per yard after duties and charges were paid?

Give operation, in full.

THIRD SUBJECT.

Question 1.  On a mortgage for $3,125, dated July 5, 1880 (interest at 3-1/2 per cent), a payment of $840 was made April 23, 1881.  What amount was due January 17, 1882?