LIVE AND LEARN.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 278, 7 March 1929, Page 3

LIVE AND LEARN.

ARITHMETIC. Arithmetic is a science which enables students to get their sums wrong. Still, you need to understand figures when you buy tobacco, or back a horse, or pay a taxi driver, or go on the booze. It will not then be out of place if a little space is here devoted to a brief outline of the principles of the subject. Addition. Addition is the art of putting two and two together, and is often practised at hen parties and bun fights, when the answer is generally more than four. Simple examples of adding are:— Insult to injury. ; Water to whisky. Sand to sugar. Distinction to a gathering. Interest to an occasion. Subtraction. The method is by taking one thing, or amount, from a larger, as:— Purse from pocket. Warning from an example. Tip from a trainer. Snapshots from a cellar. Toffee from a kid. The following are simple subtraction sums:— Question : Take a bottle of Scotch from a pub and forget to pay for it. What is the result? Answer : Jug.. Question : Take an All Black from New Zealand, and where will he be? Answer : In South Africa. Multiplication. Multiplication is a process of finding what a certain quantity or number repeated a given number of times will result in. Thus:— 1. A rude remark repeated five times will make trouble. 2. Jokes repeated get stale.

Division. This is the hardest of all arithme tical methods, enabling a quantity t be apportioned into a given numbe of parts or shares. Example : Divide four apple among five boys Result : The smallest boy will no get any. , Explanations. £ Unit : A bachelor. Score : The result of a Rugbj match. Golden number : 31 (per day). Million : What I would like in the bank. Gross : A dozen dozen : equate i I~6o—a gross mistake. | Dozen : A varying number. A ! baker’s dozen—l 3. Old women’s \ talk—l 9. Common measure : 15 ounces to the pound ; 19 cwts to the ton ; sa quarts to the gallon ; 34 inches tat the yard. Perfect numbers : Seven days’ holiday per week ; £IO,OOO per year. Triangle : Man, his wife and tha boarder. Motion in a circle : The Joy wheel. A drunk’s progress round the railings of a statue. Looping the loop. Getting a “ spot ” after hours. Work done in a unit of time s Piece work, 2500 bricks ; time work, 1500 bricks ; boss away, 15 bricks. A Few Exercises. 1. If the price of coal is £5 per I ton and the length of a boy scout’s i pole is five feet, what is the weight ■of Harry Lauder ? ; 2. If a herring and a half cost ‘three halfpence, what is the height 'of Mount Cook? 3. If Bert Hinkler flew from England to Australia with only an aeroplane to ride in, what will the correct time be when the town clock strikes twelve? 4. If a fisherman catches a shark, f what will its length be at the fifth 1 telling ?