“On the other side of your papers you will find fourteen problems in arithmetic. The first problems are simple and easy and the last ones are more difficult. Begin with the first problem and solve as many as you can in the four minutes after I say ‘Go!’ Write your answer at the right-hand side of the questions on the dotted lines provided for the answers. You may figure on the left-hand side or on the back of the blank, if you wish. Solve as many problems as you can but be sure to get the answer right. Ready! Go!” Allowing exactly four minutes after saying the world “Go!” the examiner should call “Stop! Turn your papers over. Give them to me.” All papers should be collected immediately. Write the answers to these problems on the blanks Use the other side of the sheet to figure on ANSWERS 1. How many are 5 men and 3 men? .......... 2. If you earn 2 dollars each day, how much do you earn in 6 days? .......... 3. If you have 10 nickels and lose 3 of them, how many would you have after you found 2 of those that were lost? .......... 4. How many benches will be needed in order to seat 20 people at a picnic, if 4 people sit on each bench? .......... 5. If James sold 3 Sunday papers for 5 cents each and then bought an apple for 3 cents and an orange for 4 cents, how much money had he left? .......... 6. How much change should you get from a dollar bill after buying 39 cents’ worth of potatoes, 12 cents’ worth of celery, and 26 cents’ worth of butter? .......... 7. If the price of lemons is 2 for 5 cents, how many can you buy for 40 cents? .......... 8. If 29 merchants each bought 34 quarts of canned peas at a wholesale house which had previously sold 2,387 quarts of the same brand, what was the total number of quarts of this brand sold? .......... 9. If a wholesale merchant sold for $50 sugar which he had purchased for $45 and thereby gained 1 cent per pound, how many pounds of sugar were there? .......... 10. If four and a half pounds of fancy onions cost 27 cents, how much will eight and a half pounds cost? .......... 11. Half of the people in a certain city block were born of American parents, one eighth have American fathers and foreign-born mothers, one eighth have American mothers and foreign-born fathers, and both parents of the rest are foreign-born. Of the 1,200 people living in this block, how many have American fathers? ..........