Multiply & Divide Decimals
Divide 13.5 / 0.03
450
A bank offers an interest rate of 3% on a savings account. Write 3% as a decimal.
0.03
A store is having a sale where summer clothes are 30% off the original price. A dress is on sale for $28. What was the original price of the dress?
$40
A photograph is 5 1/3 inches wide. It is being enlarged to 3 times its original size. What is the width of the enlarged photograph?
16 inches.
If 45 crackers will serve 15 students, how many crackers are needed for 30 students?
90 crackers
Ashley has a vegetable garden that measures 16.25 feet in length and 5.4 feet in width. Find the area of the garden.
87.75ft2
Write the following fraction as a percent.
11/25
44%
In the first year of ownership, a new car can lose 20% of its value. If a car lost $4,500 of value in the first year, how much did the car originally cost?
$22,500
Peyton is cutting a role of dough into slices that are 3/8 inch thick. If the roll is 10 1/2 inches long, how many slices can she cut?
28 slices
If one out of every 12 students at a school share a locker, how many share a locker in a school of 456 students?
38 students
A sub sandwich is 2.5 feet long and cut into 0.25 foot pieces. How many pieces are there total?
10 pieces
Last week, a share of stock gained a total of 1.68 points. Express the gain as a fraction in simplest form.
1 17/25
The art club held a car wash on Saturday and Sunday. They washed a total of 50 cars. If they washed 30% of the cars on Sunday, how many cars did they wash on Sunday?
15 cars
Mike has 6 pounds of pasta. Each time he makes dinner he uses 3^4 pound of pasta. How many dinners can Mike make?
8 dinners
Faith takes 4 breaths per 10 seconds during yoga. At this rate, about how many breaths would Faith take in 2 minutes of yoga?
48 breaths
The mass of a monarch butterfly is 0.56 grams. What is the mass of 4 monarch butterflies?
2.24 grams
Write the following mixed number as a decimal.
14 3/5
14.6
A tiger can eat food that weighs up to 15% of its body weight. If a tiger can eat 75 pounds of food, how much does a tiger weigh?
500 lbs.
A relay race is 1/10 kilometer long. Four athletes will run an equal distance to complete the relay. How far does each athlete run?
1/40 km
For a contest, 4 out of every 65 people who visit Best Buy will receive a free Wonder DVD. If 455 people were to visit Best Buy, how many Wonder DVDs would they give away?
28 DVDs
The Highmark athletic department plans to have a car wash to raise $468.75 for a new trophy case. In the past, they washed an average of 125 cars at each car wash. What should they charge per car so they reach their goal?
$3.75
During her workout, Hannah spent 32% of the time on the treadmill. What fraction of her workout was on the treadmill?
8/25
Connor spends 20% of a school day in math class. If he spends 80 minutes in math class, how many minutes does Connor spend in school?
400 minutes.
A recipe makes 5 1/2 dozen cookies. Jackie needs to make 3 3/4 times this amount. How many dozens of cookies will she make?
20 5/8 dozen
The ratio of red flowers to yellow flowers at the entrance to Six Flags is 5 to 7. If there are 392 yellow flowers at the entrance, how many red flowers are there?
280 red flowers