1. Measure the distance from corner to corner between the windows of a given side of the shop, and give total distance in feet and inches.

2. Measure the bench top to the nearest inch (avoiding fractions), and give number of square feet and inches it contains.

3. How many square feet are there in a given blackboard?

4. How much should a gauge be set to make a mark in the middle of the edge of a $" board ?

5. If a gate 38 1/2" wide is made of slats 2 1/2" wide, and set 2" apart, what is the total width of the slats ?

6. A man builds a barn 27' 9" X 35' 6" in the middle of the short dimension of a lot which is 62' X 135', and 20' from one end of the lot. If the short dimension of the barn is set the short way of the lot, how much land will there be on each side of the building ?

7. How many square feet of land are left in the lot after the barn has been built?

8. Measure the width of the window openings in a given side of the shop, and give total amount in feet and inches.

9. Give total length of a given side of the shop.

10. Measure to the fraction of an inch the distance between two given benches.

11. If the entire top of a given bench were of uniform thickness, how many feet, board measure, would there be in it?

12. How many square inches of lighting surface are there in a given side of the shop ?

13. If a tenon 1/2" thick is to go in the exact center of a piece of 1 3/4" lumber, how much wood will be left on each side of it?

14. How many pieces 2f" wide will be necessary to fill closely a space 40 3/8" wide?

15. Measure the distance from corner to corner, and between windows, of a given side of the shop, and give total length in feet and inches.

16. Measure the window openings of a given side of the shop, and give total area in feet and inches.

17. If a box is 8 1/4" X 7" X 4" high, how many cubic inches of water will it contain?

18. What is the capacity of the above box in liquid measure ?

19. If a board is 14' long and 15" wide at one end and 12" at the other, how many feet B. M. are there in it?

Note. - In practice, the terms sq. ft. and sq. in. are rarely used, as "sq." is omitted, but in measuring lumber it is always understood.

20. How many feet of 3 1/2" flooring should be ordered to lay a floor 12'X 16' 6", allowing 1/4 of area for waste?

Note. - Hereafter, the words "of area" will be omitted, as they are never used in practice, it being always understood that any quantity denoting waste indicates the proportion of the actual area to be covered which must be allowed.

21. How many inches are there in a floor 17 2/3 X 19 3/4?

22. How many feet are there in a floor 17 2/3' X 19 3/4'?

23. If a 2" floor is laid in the above room, how many feet of flooring will have to be ordered, allowing \ waste?

24. A four-light window is 33" X 62". Allowing .233 of its entire area for the sash, what is the size of the glass ?

25. If a mitered frame is to be made of molding 2 1/2" wide, how much more than the given sight dimensions must be allowed to each piece, in order to estimate the exact length of molding required?

26. If the light area of a 14" X 28" glass is |" less than the actual size of the glass, what is the total light area of a four-light window?

27. Measure a given end of the shop, and calculate the entire space, exclusive of openings.

28. What is the total of the door openings of a given end of the shop ?

29. What is the sectional area of one of the posts in the shop, measuring to the nearest inch?

30. What is the area of the shop floor?

31. A lumber pile of 1" lumber has 62 layers, averaging 4' in width. How many feet B. M. are there in the pile?

32. How many inches of lighting surface are there in a given side of the shop?

33. If one of the posts supporting the floor above is 12' long, how many feet B. M. are there in it?

34. How many cubic inches are contained in a box 16" X 11 1/4" X 12" deep?

35. To what dry measure is the above box practically equivalent? 30. If a certain roof requires twenty 2" X 6" rafters 13' long, how many feet B. M. would have to be purchased?

Note. - Lumber carried in stock by lumber dealers is rarely of any other lengths than multiples of two, as the logs are cut in the woods to those lengths. Thus, if a piece is needed which cannot be cut from a 12' piece, a 14' piece will have to be purchased.

37. A floor is 15' X 18'. A carpet showing an 18" border all around it is to be purchased. How many square yards will be necessary?

38. How many feet of flooring will have to be bought to lay the above floor, allowing \ waste?

39. If a house 28' X 40' is to have for the cellar an excavation 1/3 the size of the house and 4' deep, how many cubic yards of earth will have to be removed?

40. At 12 1/2 per cubic yard, how much will it cost to excavate the above cellar?

41. If a man sets and cases 4 door frames a day, at $2.25 per day, how much will it cost to have him do this work upon a house having 31 door frames?

42. How many feet of flooring will it take to lay the floor of the shop in which the class meets, allowing \ waste?

43. If the lumber in a given wooden blackboard cost 4 per foot, what was the total cost if \ waste was allowed?

44. What is the light area of a 14" X 28" four-light window, if the glass is covered 1/4" all the way around by the sash?

45. How many feet are there in a pile containing twenty-four 1/2" boards, 14' long and 11" wide?

Note. - Any thickness of lumber under 1" is measured as 1" thick. Lumber over 1" in thickness is measured as 1" plus the fractional parts of an inch. Thus, a 1 1/2" plank is measured as 1 1 1/2' of lumber per square foot of surface.

46. A glazed sash weighs 16 lb. What size of weights are necessary to hang it properly?

47. A cellar 20' X 40' is to be dug; the excavation will be 2' deep at one end and 6' deep at the other. At 12 1/2 per cubic yard, what will the excavation cost?