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4 A put in stock 1800 dols B advanced 4 months after; required the sum he put in, so as at the year's end to claim equal profits with A? answer 2700 dols.

5 A, B, and C join stocks for 12 months; A puts in 100!. and the first of the fifth month 150l, more; and on the first of the ninth month takes out 30l. B puts in 250l. on the first of the sixth month 60l. more; and on the first of the eleventh month 100l. more; C puts in 300l.; on the first of the fourth month takes out 200l. and on the first of the eighth month takes out 50% more; the whole gain is 1337 what is each partner's proper share of it?

answer A must have 40l 14s od. B 641 125 6d. C 27% 135 5d.

6 A, B, and C made a stock for 12 months; A put in at first 364. and four months after he put in 40l. more; B put in at first 408/. and at the end of 7 months he took out 86 C put in at first 1487. and three months after he put in 861 and 5 months after that he put in 1ool. more; and at the end of 12 months, their gain is found to be 14361. what is each man's share thereof? answer A 5561 3s 6d.,

B 5297. 165 9d., C 3491 19s 8d. 7 A, B, and C join in company: A's stock is 50l. for 12 months, B's 160 yards of cloth 8 months, and C's 2401 bushels of wheat 7 months; their gain is such, that A and B's share is 4561. B and C's 431 C and A's 3751.-Required the whole gain; each one's respectively; the price of B's cloth per yard, and what C's wheat was per bushel?

answer whole gain 6311. A's share 200l B's 2561. and C's 1754. B's cloth 12s. per yard, and C's wheat 6 3d. per bushel.

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XCHANGE is the rule, by which the money, &c. of one state or country, is reduced to that of another. Par is equality in value, but the course of exchange is fre quently above, or below par.

Agio is a term used to signify the difference, in some coun tries, between bank and current money.

CASE 1.

Exchange between the United States.

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Or,-Work by the theorem in the following table, opposite to the State of which the given sum is, and under, that to Make other coins proportionate. which it is to be reduced.

As dollars rate from state to state,

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What is the value of 420/. South Carolina currency, in

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2 What is the value of a bill of 750l. Pennsylvania, or other like currency, in New York, or North Carolina currency? answer 800l. 3 What sum of New York currency is equal to 1737 165. in New Jersey? answer 1851 7s 8d.2

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Philadelphia 28th, 12mo. 1810.

Exchange for 3751. Pennsylvania currency. Thirty days after sight, pay to Charles Jackson, or order, three hundred seventy-five pounds, Pennsylvania currency, as per advice from thy friend,

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To Stivers
Merchant, Virginia.

Peter Simpson.

How much Virginia currency will discharge the above bill? answer 3col.

5 B, of Massachusets, received in Pennsylvania currency, the following sums, viz. 76/ 175 8d. 200l. and 170l. Ios Ild. What sum is equal thereto in the state he resides in? answer 357 18s 10d. 6 How much South Carolina currency is equal to 1500!. of New Jersey? answer 9331 65 8d. 7. A merchant in New York owes 240 to a planter in Virginia; how much ought he to be charged with in the planter's books?

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New York, 4th Imo. 1810

Exchange for 562/ 13s 8d.

Twelve days after sight please to pay to David Davis, or order, five hundred and sixty-two pounds, thirteen shillings, and eight pence, value received; and place the same to ac count, as per advice from thy friend,

To Bradshaw Waters.

Issac Jones.

What sum, Georgia currency, will discharge this bill?

answer 3281 45 78.1

9 C, of Connecticut, draws on D. of Delaware, for 104. 16s 9d. what sum in the latter currency

will pay this draught? answer 131l os 11d.

10 What sum, New-York currency, is equal to 180/ in Massachusets? answer 2401. 11 How much South Carolina currency is equal to 360l. Massachusets money? answer 280l. 12 A Bill of exchange for 475. being remitted from Georgia to New-Jersey; what is the value of it in Jersey answer 7631 75 10d. 13 If 4727-16s 8d. be transmitted from Georgia to North Carolina; what sum is it equal to in the latter state?

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answer 810l 11s 5d.1 14 How much Virginia currency will purchase a bill for

2801. South Carolina currency? answer 360l. 15 What is 961 16s 9d. of Charleston, South Čaro

answer 1661 os 3d.

lina, worth in New-York? 16 Reduce 36791/ 145 4d. of New-York to New-Jersey

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Accounts are kept in England, Ireland, and the West India Islands, in pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings: though their intrinsic values, in these places, are different.

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