THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCT. 26, 1906.
No. 28.
ARITHMETIC.
CLASS IV.
1. What is meant by a prime number, and what is meant by saying that two numbers are prime to one another?
2. The true year consists of 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds, but for convenience it is said to consist of 365 days. If there were no leap years how many days, minutes and seconds would this difference amount to in 1600 years?
3. Find the value of:
(L.)
"་
(2.) (+
3
+
6-
5
5
(+9) + 4 × (8 + 1) +
21
(3.)
-
i of 2.5-15
1
1 of 1
4. Express as a decimal fraction :--
14
6
1
+
++
25.6
9 125
No. 29.
ARITHMETIC.
CLASS V.
1. What is meant by a concrete muumber and what by an abstract mumber?
2. If a bucket holds 25 pints of water, how many bucketfuls are required
to fill a rank of 1,200 gallous capacity ?
3. Find the G,C.M. of 182,776 and 349,065.
4. Find the L.C.M. of 364, 2,520 and 5,265.
5. Find the value of :-
1 of 37 } 11 of 99
1 x 160 24 x !
21
No. 30.
ARITHMETIC.
CLASS VI.
1. If one dollar is worth 28. 11⁄2d., how many dollars and rents are £11 4s. 6d. worth?
2. Find the cost of 24 tons 3 ewt, of coal at Is. 4d. per ewt.
3. If a man's income is £550 158, 64. per annum and he spends £326 2s. 47. each year, how much will he save in 191⁄2 years?
4. If you see the flash of a cannon immediately it is fired but only hear the sound after 7 seconds how far off is the cannon if sound travels at the rate of 1,120 feet per second? Give answer in miles, furlongs and yards.
5. Explain how it is that
feet
1 cubic yard.
square yard 9 square feet, and 27 cubie
No. 31.
ARITHMETIC.
CLASS VII.
1. Express in words the following numbers :---
271,432,859, 50,100,302.
2. Find the sum of one hundred thousand and two, seven thousand and
twenty, seventy one, and forty three.
3. Add together 431,204, 736, 20,610, 17.
4. Find the difference between 43,216,502 and 82,174,314.
5. Divide equally into 7 parts
the following
sum
of money
£1,199–28. 51⁄2d.
1915
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