Show:
Commission
Multiplying Decimals
Dividing Decimals
Multiplication Grids
Problem-Solving
100
Jake is selling pumpkins at 10% commission. Each pumpkin costs $4.50. How much money will Jake receive?
0.45
100
3.58 cups of brown sugar is needed for one apple pie. Sorabh and Pavan need to bake 7 apple pies. Sorabh has 25 cups of brown sugar in his pantry, so he tells Pavan they should be all set to bake the pies. Pavan thinks they need to run to the grocery store to get more sugar. Who is correct? Explain your answer.
Pavan is correct, because 25.06 cups of brown sugar is needed.
100
Mac and Mason were carving pumpkins, and the weight of the pumpkins in total was 36.5 pounds. They have 9 pumpkins that all weigh the same. What is the weight of each pumpkin? Round to the nearest hundredth.
4.06 pounds
100
Each of the caramel apple lollipops were on sale for $0.44. Karin, Mia, and Andrew purchased the lollipops. How much will they spend in all? Use grids to show your answer.
$1.32
100
SJLES is having a Halloween beanbag toss. There are 556 students in the school. Ten beanbags are in each bucket. How many beanbags are needed so that each student gets a water balloon?
56 buckets
200
Alex is selling Halloween costumes and makes 15% commission. Each costume is $14.60 and he sells 14 costumes in one day. How much money will Alex make?
$30.66
200
Ivan and Jason are carving pumpkins. Each pumpkin weighs 8.62 pounds and they have 12 pumpkins to carve. What is the weight of the 12 pumpkins combined?
103.44 pounds
200
Bags of candy are purchased for trick-or-treaters. The bags of candy cost $32.48 in total. There are 5 bags of candy. How much does each cost? Round to the nearest cent.
$6.50
200
Madelynn and Mia each sat 0.67 feet away from the fire while roasting marshmallows. Combined, how many feet away did they sit? Use grids to show your answer.
1.32 feet
200
At a school-wide Halloween party, a piece of pumpkin cake was given to each child. There were 345 students at the party, and each cake can be sliced into 12 slices. How many cakes are needed so that each student gets a slice?
29 cakes
300
Tim receives 15% commission for every $11 basket of pumpkins he sells. Daniel receives 12% commission for every $12 basket of pumpkins he sells. Since Tim has a higher percent of commission, he tells Daniel he makes more money. Is Tim correct? Prove your answer.
Tim is correct, because... Tim makes $1.65 for every basket of pumpkins he sells. Daniel makes $1.44 for every basket of pumpkins he sells.
300
A group of 6 friends each paid $15.79 for a Halloween dinner. How much will they collectively pay?
$94.74
300
A group of friends walked a total distance of 15.66 miles while trick-or-treating on Halloween. If each friend walked the same distance and there were 4 friends, how far did each walk? Round to the nearest hundredth.
3.92 miles
300
Tim, Tarun, and Yatin were on a team for a fall festival relay race. They each sprinted 0.62 miles in the race. How many miles did they race in all? Show your answer on the grids.
1.86 miles
300
On Saturday, there were 461 people visiting Valley View Farm. All pumpkins were stored in crates that each held 13 pumpkins. How many crates needed to be in the barn for everyone to take home two pumpkins?
71 crates
400
At a fall festival, Chloe makes caramel apples and sells them in containers that each cost $4.50. Kameron sells containers of homemade pumpkin pies, which each cost $5.65. They both are working on a 14% commission. Who makes more if they each sell 60 containers? How much more does that person make?
Chloe makes $37.80 and Kameron makes $47.46. Kameron makes $9.66 more than Chloe.
400
Each friend pays $3.65 on a bag of Reeses candy and $2.78 on a bag of Snickers candy. There were 12 friends. How much money was spent?
$77.16
400
The cost of costumes came to a total of $92.55. If each of the 7 friends spent the same amount of money, how much did each person pay? Round to the nearest cent.
$13.22
400
Three friends are each baking a pumpkin pie. The pie calls for 0.34 cups of sugar. If they invited two more friends over and each of them baked a pie, how many cups of sugar are needed in all? Use grids to show your answer. Create one division problems that can be created from this problem that does NOT use the numbers 5 and 0.34.
1.70 cups of sugar One example: 1.70 รท 10 = 0.17
400
An extended family is planning to go on a haunted hayride for Halloween. There are 24 people in the family, and they are each bringing 2 friends with them. If only 7 people can fit on each tractors for the hayride, how many tractors will need to be provided?
11 tractors