Download or read book A Mental Arithmetic (Classic Reprint) written by G. A. Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Mental Arithmetic 1. Mary has 2 cents, and her mother gives her 1 more; how many cents has Mary then? 2. Charles had 2 marbles, and found 2 more in the schoolyard; how many marbles had he then? 3. Lucy found 3 eggs in a box and 3 more in the hay; how many eggs did she find in all? 4. John gave 3 pond-lilies to Hattie, and Arthur gave her 4; how many had she in all? 5. A boy has 5 rabbits in one pen and 2 in another; how many rabbits has he in both pens? 6. Mr. Brown had 4 horses, and bought 3 more; how many horses had he then? 7. Agnes has 4 spools of black thread and 5 spools of white; how many spools has she of both kinds? 8. James earned 6 dollars and afterwards 4 dollars more; how many dollars did he earn? 9. Mrs. Adams paid her grocer 5 dollars for sugar and 3 dollars for flour; how many dollars did she pay? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.