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Word Problems
Decimal x Whole #
Decimal x Decimal
Decimal Operations Surprise
100
4.4 x 10
44
100

A truck is transporting 75 containers that weigh 14.9 pounds each. What is the total weight the truck is transporting?

1,117.5 pounds

100
38.6 x 19
733.4
100
8.3 x 6.4
53.12
100

187.54 + 38.1 = 

225.64

200
77.9 x 100
7,790
200

A state flag costs $10.99. Maddy wants to buy 6 flags. What is the total cost of the flags?

$65.94

200
88 x 1.8
158.4
200
0.21 x 1.5
0.315
200

300 - .78 = 

299.22

300

0.05 x 1000

50

300

Dylan wrote an essay that was 1,000 words long. If his average word was 5.63 letters long, how many letters were in Dylan's essay?

5,630 letters

300
56.3 x 22
1,238.6
300
18.1 x 3.7
66.97
300

197.25 X 3.7 = 

729.825

400

9.8 x 102

980

400
Sarah is painting her room. She buys 8 cans of paint to use. Each can contains 57.3 ounces of paint. If she needs 450 ounces to paint her entire room, does she have enough paint? If she does - how much extra does she have? If she does not - how much more does she need?

She does have enough and she will have 8.4 ounces left over. 

400
71.7 x 12
860.4
400
0.28 x 3.7
1.036
400

0.08 X 0.9 = 

0.072

500

8.65 x 103

8,650

500

A runners goal was to run a total of 215 miles in the month of December (31 days). If he ran 6.45 miles every day that month, would he reach his goal? How many more miles would he need to run or how many extra miles did he run? 

He would not reach his goal. He would need to run, 15.05 miles more.

500
0.89 x 21
18.69
500
3.14 x 6.2
19,468
500

107.23 X 3.6 =

386.028