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You go buy some items from the store, how does the cashier calculate your cost.
Addition
A vat of orange juice contains 135.73 gallons of juice. If there are 12.5 vats of orange juice in the factory, how many gallons of juice do they have?
135.73 X 12.5
45.96
Three friends go out to lunch and receive a bill for $66.75. If they decide to split the check evenly between themselves, how much will each friend pay?
$22.25
A chef took out 54.8 g of butter then realized he took 6.3 g more than he needed. How much butter did the chef need?
48.5 g
After being told your total, you give the clerk $20.00. How do they figure out your change?
subtraction
Mrs. Jones is making baby food for her grandson. If she combines 0.13 oz of carrots with 1.7 oz of sweet potatoes, how many ounces (oz) of baby food will she have made?
0.13 + 1.7
1.956 + 32.8
34.756
Chloe picked 15 lbs of strawberries on Saturday. Her mother's jam recipe calls for 0.5 lbs of strawberries to make a jar. How many jars of jam can she make?
30 jars
Junior sells lemonade for $5.99 per gallon. If he sells 64.5 gallons this weekend, how much money will he make?
$386.35
OR
$386.36
(Both acceptable answers)
You got a dozen packs of crayons. If every box has the same number of crayons, how would you calculate how many crayons you bought?
Multiplication
After a hurricane a local shelter took in 210 survivors. Each survivor costs $5.87 to feed. If the shelter gets a donation of $1,500 do they have enough to feed all their survivors?
1500 / 5.87
74.3 x 9.6
713.28
Ana plants a garden that is 12.8 feet long and 9.2 feet wide. She needs to till up the surface area of her garden to get ready for planting. How many square feet of soil will she need to till?
117.6 square feet
In the beginning of the season, farmer Brown had 15 rows of corn. By the end of the season he had lost 4.25 rows to pests. How many rows of Corn will farmer Brown be able to harvest?
10.75 rows
You are taking some students on a field trip. Each bus can hold 40 students. How do you calculate how many buses you need?
Divide
Serene has 87.32 lbs of kale to sell at the farmers market. She takes home 43.22 lbs at the end of the market. How much kale did she sell?
87.32 - 43.22
345.16 - 7.69
337.47
Christian ran 4.7 miles on Saturday and 13.2 miles on Sunday. How much farther did he run on Sunday?
8.5 miles
Last year Toronto received 32.72 inches of rain, 47.83 inches of snowfall, and 5.9 inches of hail. How much frozen precipitation did Toronto see last year?
53.73 inches
You are buying gas for your car. You intend to fill your tank with the maximum gallons it will hold. Gas is $$$ per gallon. How do you calculate the cost of gas?
multiplication
Javier works at a weather station in Idaho. In January they recorded the record temperature of 43.8*. In February they recorded the record temperature of 34.5*. In March they recorded the record temperature of 51.2*. What is the difference between the highest and lowest record temperatures?
51.2 - 34.5
616 / 19.25
32
Iris purchased a new pair of shoes for $236.98. The cashier says there is a $16.59 sales tax on the shoes. How much will Iris need to pay now?
$253.57
In a tub of ice-cream there are about 374.4 oz of ice-cream. If the average tub has serves 96 scoops of ice-cream, how many ounces is each scoop?
3.9 oz