This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...23c" apiece? Lumber is sold by the board fool. A board foot is a board 1 ft. long, 1 ft. wide, and 1 in., or less, thick. 16. How many board feet of lumber in a board 1 in. thick, 1 ft. wide, and 5 ft. long? The same thickness and width and 10 ft. long? 12 ft. long? 17. How many board feet in a board 1 in. thick, 10 ft ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...23c" apiece? Lumber is sold by the board fool. A board foot is a board 1 ft. long, 1 ft. wide, and 1 in., or less, thick. 16. How many board feet of lumber in a board 1 in. thick, 1 ft. wide, and 5 ft. long? The same thickness and width and 10 ft. long? 12 ft. long? 17. How many board feet in a board 1 in. thick, 10 ft. long, and 2 ft. wide? The same thickness and length and 6 in. wide? 9 in. wide? 18 in. wide? 1 in. wide? 8 in. wide? 18. How many board feet in a board 12 ft. long, 4 in. wide, and 1 in. thick? 2 in. thick? 19. How many board feet in a "two by four" scantling 10 ft. long (2"X4"X10')? 16 feet long? 20. How many board feet in a "four by four" scantling 10 ft. long? 12 ft. long? 18 ft. long? 21. How many board feet are there in a fencing board 1"X6"X12'? In 5 such boards? 22. How much will the fencing lumber of problem 13 cost @ $18 per M (thousand) board feet? 135. Areas of Fields. Answer all you can orally Problems 1 to 14 refer to Fig. 1, page 211. 1. The whole farm contains 160 acres. How many acres are there in the cornfield? In the wheatfield? In the meadow? In the south oatfield? In the pasture? In the house and grounds lot? 2. What is the width of each of these fields in rods? 3. If the meadow were divided by a north and south central line, how many rods wide would each half be? How many acres would there be in each half? 4. How many square rods in a strip 1 rd. wide and 80 rd. long? 5. How many square rods in an acre? 6. How wide must a strip of land be to contain an acre, if it is 80 rd. long? 40 rd. long? mile long? 7. Compare the sizes of the wheatfield and the north oatfield; of the cornfield and the wheatfield; of the meadow and the wheatfield; of the meadow and the south oatfield...
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