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Sandy has 48 books. Mike has 37 books. How many books do they have together?
85 books.
Sam, Nancy, Alyssa and Benny each have three baseball cards. How many baseball cards do they have in all?
12 baseball cards
Charlie has 13 dimes and 11 nickles. In all, how much money does Charlie have?
$1.85 or 185 cents
What is the sales tax rate in Huron County?
7.25%
Sandy got 7 quarters for washing dishes and 13 pennies for mowing lawns. How much money does Sandy have?
$1.88 or 188 cents
Sam grew 20 cantelopes. Melanie thirty-six cantelopes. How many cantelopes did they grow in all?
56 cantelopes.
There are thirty-five children in the classroom, each student will get twenty-nine pencils. How many pencils will the teacher have to give out?
1015 pencils
When Sarah was visited by the toothfairy for two of her missing teeth she received 13 each of dimes, pennies and nickles. How much money did the toothfairy leave Sarah?
$2.08 or 208 cents
When doing mental math, what coin value should you add for every dollar you spend to ensure that you will have enough money?
10 cents or 1 dime for every $1.00 spent.
Jason bought 3 dozen eggs from the grocery store to bake some cakes. How many eggs did Jason buy?
36 eggs
Mary has thirty five quarters in her bank. She spent twenty-seven of her quarters. How many quarters does she have now?
8 quarters
How many ink cartridges can you by with $91.00 if one cartridge costs $13.00?
7 cartridges
Jessica paid $13.81 total for cherries, after a 3 dollar coupon. She also spent $4.53 on apples. She paid with a $20 bill. How much change did Jessica receive?
$1.66
Your total before taxes was $100.00. The tax rate was 6.5%. What is the total amount you owe the cashier?
$106.50
Fred bought 2 packs of basketball cards for $2.99 each and a deck of Pokemon cards for $8.13. He paid with a $20 bill. Fred found $8.30 in his pocket. How much change did he receive?
$5.89
74 apples
Carol bought 5 larges pizzas that were cut into 8 slices. If she has 12 friends over. How many slices could everyone have? How many would be left over?
3 slices per friend with 4 slices left over
Mary joined her school's band. She bought a viola for $81.56, and a song book which was $7.37 with a $100 bill. Mary found $10.12 in her pocket. How much change was Mary given?
$11.07
Sally went to the store with $150.00. She purchased 5 items that had the following prices: $16.00; $78.00; $33.00; $27.00; $46.00. If the tax rate is 5%, will she have enough money to complete her purchase? How much will she need?
No.
$210.00
Mrs. Roberts started the school year with 576 pencils. Her students ate, on average, 12 pencils per day. How many days did the pencils last?
There are eighteen dogwood trees and sixteen maple trees currently in the park. Park workers will plant nineteen more dogwood trees today. How many dogwood trees will the park have when the workers are finished?
37 dogwood trees
Sarah has thirty-six books. Sandy has forty-five times more books than Sarah. How many books does Sandy have?
1620 books
On Wednesday, Tim paid $13.29 each on two tickets to a movie theater. Popcorn was $1.96, but Tim did not buy any. He also rented a movie for $6.95. Tim paid with two $20 bills. How much change did Tim get?
$6.47
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What will be the total amount spent, if the subtotal is $65.32 and the tax rate is 7.25%. (All items were taxable).
$70.06
Steve has 40 quarters in his bank. He spent 50 dimes. How much money is left in his bank?