Decimal Word Problems
You are saving money for a new bicycle, which costs $85.99. So far you have saved $47.52.How much more money do you need before you can purchase the new bicycle?
38.47
I have 3 cookies that each weigh 0.45 pounds. How much do all the cookies weigh in all?
1.35
A piece of paper is 0.0075 inch thick. How many sheets of paper are in a stack that is 2.25 inches high?
300
Lucas had $6.00 and wanted to give the same amount of money to each of his 5 of his friends. How much money does each friend get.
$1.20
An international long-distance phone call costs $0.79 per minute. How much will a 22-minute call cost?
17.38
Isaiah used a whole block of wax to make 6 candles. Each candle weighed 9.4 ounces. How much did the whole block of wax weigh?
56.4
A jug contains 1/4 gallon of water. A cup holds 1/6 gallon of water. How many cups can you fill?
1 1/2
Reid paid $10.48 for a number of pencils. If each pencil cost $1.31, how many pencils did Reid get?
8
The area of Pennsylvania is 46,055 square miles. The area of Florida is about 1.428 times larger than Pennsylvania. What is the area of Florida?
65,766.54
Dylann needs 5 pounds of apples that cost $31.65 each. How much money does she need?
$158.25
You buy a book for $22.43 and a magazine for $5.83. How much more does the book cost than the magazine?
16.60
Ava spent $16.25 on chocolate. If she bought 2.6 pounds of chocolate, how much does one pound of chocolate cost?
$6.25
You buy three baskets of fruit for $5.65 per basket. You hand the cashier a $20 bill. How much change will you get back?
3.05
Lucy had $0.67 in her wallet, and she dropped the whole of it into a charity box. If James, a hugely generous heart, dropped six times the money, how much did he donate?
$4.02
You run at a constant speed of 11 1/4 feet per second. How far do you run in 30 seconds?
337 1/2
Aubrey spent $94.80 on 6 tickets to Six Flags. What was the cost of one ticket?
$15.80
A phone has 350 hours of music on it. Each song is about 2.5 minutes in length. About how many songs are on the phone?
140
Each batch of cookie mix needs 0.4 cups of sugar, and each batch makes 16 cookies. If Kadyn is making 4 batches of cookies, how much sugar does he need?
1.6 cups
You buy 3.25 pounds of pink shrimp at 17.95 per pound. You pay with three$20 bills. How much change do you receive?
1.66
A kite and a spool cost $29.75 together. Jason paid $228.55 for 12 kites and 5 spools. How much will Ted pay for 2 kits and 4 spools?
Kite: $11.40
Spool: $18.35
$22.80 + $73.40 = $96.20