Peter is selling tickets for a raffle.
Each ticket costs $1.50.
Peter sells a total of 60 tickets.
How much money does Peter collect for selling the tickets?
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Peter is selling tickets for a raffle.
Each ticket costs $1.50.
Peter sells a total of 60 tickets.
How much money does Peter collect for selling the tickets?
$ |
`$90`
`text(Money collected)` | `= 60 xx $1.50` |
`=(60 xx $1) + (60 xx 0.5)` | |
`= $90` |
Pablo buys art supplies for his art studio.
He rounds each price to the nearest dollar to estimate the total cost of the supplies.
How much is Pablo's estimate?
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`$22`
`text(After rounding to the nearest dollar,)`
`text(Pablo’s Estimate)` | `= 7 + 2 + 3 + 7 + 3` |
`= $22` |
Jarryd buys 3 water bottles for $1.50 each.
He pays for these water bottles with a $10 note.
How much change should Jarryd receive?
`$1.50` | `$4.50` | `$5.00` | `$5.50` |
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`$5.50`
`text(Change)` | `= $10 – (3 xx $1.50)` |
`= $10 – $4.50` | |
`= $5.50` |
Patrick gets $7.35 in pocket money each week.
He does extra jobs one week and earns $4.75 more.
How much money did Patrick receive in total in the week?
`$11.00` | `$11.10` | `$12.00` | `$12.10` |
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`$12.10`
`$7.35 + 4.75 = $12.10`
Emily has 85 cents in 5-cent pieces.
How many 5-cent pieces does she have?
`17` | `80` | `40` | `425` |
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`17`
`85 ÷ 5 = 17\ text(pieces)`
Horace bought some pens for school with a $5 note.
Each of the pens cost 35 cents.
Horace received $1.15 change.
How many pens did he buy?
`11`
`text(One strategy:)`
`text(Consider some different numbers of pens,)`
`text(10 pens cost $3.50 ⇒ change of $1.50)`
`:. 11\ text(pens cost $3.85 ⇒ change of $1.15)`
Henry bought an ice cream cone for $2.85 using coins in his pocket.
After paying, he counted $1.45 left in coins.
How much money in coins did Henry have to start with?
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`$4.30`
`$2.85 + $1.45 = $4.30`
Byron spent $12.80 on pens for the new school year.
Each pen cost 40 cents.
How many pens did he buy?
`32\ text(pens)`
`text(Strategy 1:)`
`=> 10\ text(pens cost $4.00)`
`=> 30\ text(pens cost $12.00)`
`:. 32\ text(pens cost $12.80)`
`text(Strategy 2:)`
`text(Using long division,)`
`$12.80 = 1280¢`
`\ \ \ 32`
`40` `\ 1280`
`120\ \ \ `
`qquad 80`
`qquad 80\ \ \ `
Sharon bought 6 chocolate bars that cost $1.20 each.
She gave the shopkeeper a $10 note.
How much change should Sharon expect?
`$2.80` | `$4` | `$7.20` | `$8.80` |
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`$2.80`
`text(C) text(ost of 6 chocolate bars)`
`6 xx $1.20 = $7.20`
`:.\ text(Sharon’s change)` | `=10.00 – 7.20` |
`=$2.80` |
Isla and Grace both bought a new towel and swimmers for summer.
They each spent the same amount of money.
Isla's towel cost $17.85 and her swimmers cost $22.15.
Grace's towel cost $20.90.
How much did Grace's swimmers cost?
`$19.00` | `$19.10` | `$20.90` | `$22.15` |
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`$19.10`
`text(Isla’s total cost)` | `=17.85 + 22.15` |
`=$40.00` |
`:.\ text(Grace’s swimmers)` | `=40.00 – 20.90` |
`=20.00 – 0.90` | |
`=$19.10` |
Bojacks lives in South Australia and receives 10 cents for every glass bottle that he takes to the recycling depot.
Bojacks recycles 28 glass bottles.
How much money will he receive?
`28 ¢` | `$2.80` | `$28` | `$280` |
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`$2.80`
`28 xx 10\ text(cents)`
`= 280\ text(cents)`
`= $2.80`