Car & Buying Problems
Samuel bought 3 tires for $79.95 each. How much did he spend on the tires altogether?
$239.85
Megan went to the grocery store. She bought an apple for $0.52 and strawberries for $2.99. How much money did she spend?
$3.51
David earned $125.00 mowing yards every week this summer. He mowed 4 yards per week. How much did he earn for each yard he mowed?
$31.25
Logan paid $13.30 for 2.8 pounds of roast beef. Find the price per pound of the roast beef.
$4.75
0.57 + 3.12
4
Samuel bought 3 tires for $79.95 each and 5 rims for $59.00 each. What was the total cost of these items?
$534.85
Potato chips cost $0.79 per bag and dip costs $1.28 per container. How much would it cost for 12 bags of potato chips and 20 containers of dip?
$35.08
Jan calls her cousin Tom every week. It costs $0.47 for the first minute and $0.27 for each additional minute. How much does Jan pay for a 9 minute call?
$2.90
George has a garden that covers 127.75 square feet. He wants to cover the soil of his garden with fertilizer. One bag of fertilizer covers 18 square feet. How many bags of fertilizer does George need?
7
19.82 - 2.99
17
The tire store sells 4 rims for $300 and sells 2 rims for $125. How much would it cost for 5 tires and 3 rims?
$562.50
Pears are priced at 3 for $1.47 and peaches are priced at 5 for $1.25. How much would it cost to buy 8 pears and 7 peaches?
$5.67
The local movie theater sells an average of 65.8 tickets on Thursdays and an average of 288.9 tickets on Saturday. How many more tickets are sold on Saturday?
223.1
A bakery sells a dozen cookies for $4.20. What would be the price of one cookie? First, identify the operation used and then solve.
$0.35
Estimate to the nearest tenth please. 13.46 + 2.31
15.8
A gas station charges $1.49 per gallon of unleaded gasoline and $1.59 per gallon of super unleaded gasoline. How much would it cost for 12 gallons of super unleaded gasoline and a gallon of unleaded gasoline?
$20.57
Candy bars are priced at $0.75 per candy bar, and soda pops cost $0.95 each. How much would it cost for 28 candy bars and a soda pop?
$21.95
A worker had 150 m of cable at first. He used 73.6 m of the cable and cut the remaining length of cable into 40 equal pieces. What was the length of each shorter piece of cable in centimetres?
191 cm
Carmen earns $4.60 an hour working part time as a painter's assistant. She worked a total of 15.75 hours one week. How much money did she earn?
$72.45
Estimate to the nearest hundredth please. 17.3 - 12.172
5.13
Ahmad bought 9 identical pencils for $13.05 and 6 identical glue sticks for $12.90 How much do 3 such pencils and 3 such glue sticks cost altogether?
$10.80
Molly bought 5.1 pounds of hamburger meat at $1.20 per pound and 9 pounds of oranges at $0.79 per pound. How much did Molly spend on these items?
$13.23
Mr. Michael's square garden has a perimeter of 225 inches. How long is each side of his garden?
56.25 inches
Jason went grocery shopping and bought the following items: peanut butter $3.98 bread $3.45 milk $3.35 pasta sauce $2.67 What was Jason's total grocery bill?
$13.45
9.72 x 3.44
30