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10. An ordinary freight car is 8 feet wide by 32 

 feet long, and is generally filled about 4 feet deep. 

 How many bushels of apples would this be? 



An acre of land is 160 square rods. To find the 

 number of acres in any field, multiply together the 

 length and the width in rods and divide by 1GO. 



11. An 80-acre field has a strip 2 rods wide and 

 160 rods long taken of? for road. Besides, there is a 

 pasture 10 rods wide by 25 rods long, and the house, 

 orchard and feed lots take a strip 20 rods wide by 30 

 rods long. If all the rest of the 80 acres is planted 

 in corn, how many acres of corn will there be? 



12. If the corn in this field fills 3 16-foot sections 

 of crib 10 feet deep and 12 feet wide, how many 

 bushels of corn is that per acre? 



13. How many acres in a piece of land 12 rods 

 wide and 80 rods long? 



14. If this land is sold at $100 per acre, what 

 will it bring? 



15. If a mistake of 3 feet is made in measuring 

 the width of the piece, how much difference would it 

 make in the price received for the land? 



16. A piece of land 80 rods long is 50 rods wide 

 at one end and 30 rods wide at the other end. How 

 many acres does it contain? 



IT. If this land is planted in oats and the crop 

 fills a bin 10 feet wide, 12 feet long and 12 feet deep, 

 what is the yield per acre? 



18. When corn is planted in rows 3 feet 8 inches 



