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2. How much tea at 9s. per ib. can I have in barter, for 

 4 cwt. 2qrs. of chocolate at 4s. per lb. ? 



Ans. 2cvvt. 



3. How many reams of paper at 2s. p-^-d. per ream must 

 be given, in bartet", for 37 pieces of Irish cloth at il. 12s. 

 4d. per piece ? 



Ans. 428I4. 



4. A delivered 3 hogsheads of brandy at 6s. 8d. per gal. 

 to B, for 1 26 yards of cloth j what was the cloth per yard ? 



Ans. 10s. 



5. A and B barter •, A hath 4icwt. of hops at 30s. per 

 cwt. for which B gives him 20I. in money, and the rest in 

 prunes at 5d. per pound ; what quantity of prunes must 

 A receive ? 



Ans. lycwt. 3qrs. 41b. 



6. A has a quantity of pepper, weight net i6oolb. at 

 1 7d. per lb. which he barters with B for two sorts of goods, 

 the one at ^d. the other at 8d. per lb. and to have ~ in 

 money, and of each sort of goods an equal quantity : how 

 many pounds of each must he receive, and how much in 

 money ? 



Ans. i394-|-|-lb. and 37I. 15s. 6yd. 



LOSS AND GAIN. 



Loss AND Gain is a rule that discovers what is got -or 

 lost in the buying or selling of goods 5 and instructs mer- 

 chants and traders to raise or lower the price of their goods, 

 so as to gain or lose a certain sum per cent. &;c. 



Questions 'm this rule are performed by the Rule of 

 Three. 



