Decimals
Sally bought the following items for a class party: bag of candy for $8.98, variety pack of chips for $12, and a box of muffins for $10.10. How much did Sally spend in all?
$31.08
Alayna is on a trip that will take her 335 miles round trip. If she is 1/5 of the way through the trip, how many miles does she have left to go?
268 miles
Dallas is training for a marathon. He ran 5 miles each day for the first week, 10 miles each day for the second week, 15 miles each day for the third week, and increased his daily mileage by 1.5 miles each day of the fourth week. How many total miles did Dallas run to train over the four weeks?
357 miles
Hannah has a collection of baseball cards. She has 18 cards. Her friend, Suzie, has twice that many cards. And her younger brother, Nate, has half as many cards as Hannah. How many baseball cards do they have altogether?
63 baseball cards
Mia wants to purchase a car. The red car she has picked out will cost her $350 per month for 3 years. Assuming all costs are included in the monthly payment, how much will the car cost her?
$12,600
Joe went to the store with a $100 bill. He purchased a video game for $49.99 and a carrying case for his electronic game for $29.99. How much change will Joe receive?
$20.02
George bought a long board to use as a border for his pasture. He needs to cut the 15 3/4 foot board into 3 pieces. How long will each board be?
5 1/4 foot
Jenny is reading a book that has 536 pages. The first five chapters are 36 pages each, the next three chapters are 42 pages each, and the following two chapters are 53 pages each. If the last four chapters contain an equal number of pages, how many pages does each of the last four chapters have?
31 pages
Camille is having a party. If she has room at the event center to invite 250 people and she has received 163 rsvp's thus far, how many more people does she need to hear from?
87 people
The rainfall for the year was 30.05 inches. This was 2.5 inches less than the average rainfall. What is the average rainfall?
32.55 inches
Amy is starting a kids' soccer league. The fee for each player is $12.50. If she received 865 applications, how much money did she receive?
$10,812.50
Jeremiah and his friends want to post banners outside for the homecoming of the teacher who has been traveling the world. If Jeremiah's banner is 6 1/2 feet long, one of his friend's banner is 4 1/5 feet long, and the other friend's banner is 5 5/6 feet long, how much total space will they need for the banners?
16 16/30 = 16 8/15 feet
McKenzie is buying a 60-inch television. The TV costs $495. If she pays for the TV in equal installments of $75 a month, how many months before she will have the TV paid off?
7 months
The mother purchased the following items for her pantry: 4 boxes of cereal for $5 each, 2 boxes of crackers for $3 each, 6 cans of meat for $8 each, and 8 boxes of macaroni since they were on sale two for $2. How much did the mother spend that day on these items?
$82
The couple had sent out 350 invitations. So far they have received 175 invitations back rsvp'ing for 2 guests each and 50 invitations rsvp'ing for just 1 person. A total of 33 of the rsvp's have indicated the guests couldn't come. How many of the invitations haven't sent in an RSVP yet?
92 invitations
The music department has a subscription budget of $1,050.75 for the year. If each music subscription company charges $75, how many subscriptions can they buy?
14 subscriptions (14.01)
Alison is 6 7/12 inches tall. Becky is 5 5/6 inches tall. How much taller is Alison than Becky?
9/12 = 3/4 inch
Gene is following a corn maze. He is 1/5 of the way through the 3.5 mile long maze so far. How many miles does he have left to finish?
1.4 miles
Libby has $520 to spend on books. She must spend half of the total on graphic novels and the rest to be distributed evenly among the genres of mystery, historical fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction. How much money will she spend on each type of book?
$260 on graphic novels and $65 on each of mystery, historical fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction
Deli turkey costs $6.97 per pound and deli ham costs $5.35 per pound. If I purchase 1.5 pounds of turkey and 0.75 pounds of ham, how much did I spend? (Round answers to the nearest cent.)
$14.47
Kyle wanted to buy 3 lbs of apples and 2 lbs of peaches. If the apples cost $2.29 per pound and peaches at $3.49 per pound, how much did Kyle spend? If he paid with a $20 bill, how much change would he get back?
$13.85; $6.15
Emily has 5 cups of cereal, 4 3/8 cups of pretzels, 1 1/2 cups of m&m's, and 2 2/3 cups of peanuts to make a snack mix. If she then wants to divvy up the mix into 5 bags, how many cups of snack mix will be in each bag?
2 17/24 cups
Janessa is taking a trip to California for sightseeing. Her flight was 3 1/2 hours. She spent 5 full days there. Then she took a 5 1/4 hour flight to Maine to visit family. She spent 3 full days in Maine. If her return flight home was 2/3 the time of her flight from California to Maine, how many hours was Janessa away from home? (Do not account for any travel time to and from the airports nor any layover time at the airport.)
204 1/4 hours
Tyrone wanted to sell his muffins for $3 apiece, his decorative cupcakes for $4 apiece, and slices of pie for $5 apiece so he can make a goal of $600 on each of these three lines over the weekend. How many of each type of pastry will he need to sell to meet his goal?
200 muffins, 150 decorative cups, 120 slices of pie
The area of the first triangle is 6.4 square inches. A second triangle has an area that is 1/2 that of the first. A third triangle is 3 times the size of the first. What is the combined area of all three triangles?
28.8 square inches