I love the exercises in Godement's Algebra (1968), e.g. p111:

15. With the development of purely peaceful space research, the President-Director-General of the Societe Anonyme pour l'Exploitation Financiere de la Physique Purement Theorique, Commander of the Legion of Honneur, had been able to conclude some profitable contracts and has bought a country estate of 200 hectares in Basse-Normandie at 8,000 francs per hectare. Inspired by this example, a plumber employed by the company, earning 800 francs a month, decided to invest a tenth of his wages in savings bonds at 4% interest per annum. How many years will he have to work before he is in a position to buy an estate of 200 hectares in Basse-Normandie and live out the rest of his life in peace and comfort? (You should take account of compound interest, but ignore the effects of possible devaluations of the currency.)

16. According to Le Monde of 21st July 1954, the annual expenditure on the war in Indo-China is given by the following table (the unit is 1,000 million old francs):

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Use this example to verify the fundamental properties of addition (associativity and commutativity).

17. In November 1954, there were in Algeria 1,230,000 Europeans and 8,300,000 native-born Algerians. At the same date, the University of Algiers had 4,548 European and 557 Algerian students. Calculate the ratio between the chances of a European and those of an Algerian of receiving higher education.

Nice socially-conscious exercise. For possible comparison, I was interested to listen to an interview on KPFA progressive radio with the alleged "math is racist" woman, and unfortunately she did disappoint. One of her first examples was essentially: the one-drop rule involved counting, so counting can be racist. (Every culture counts to one.) On the plus side, in a YouTube video to math teachers she was more about pepping-up teachers, I thought.