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Homework - Money problems - Mental method or written method? You decide!

1) If I spend £1.50 on a toy and £2.10 on sweets, how much do I spend all together?

2) I am having a party and I need to buy some lemonade. It costs £0.60 per bottle and I will need 7 bottles. How much will it cost me altogether?

3) When I went shopping last Saturday I took £12.43 and spent £6.28. How much have I got left?

4) I went to buy a new tablet that should have cost £199.49. There was a sale and I got £15 off! How much did I have to pay?

5) If I get £3 pocket money per week and I spend £1 on sweets and £0.30

on a comic, how much do I have left to save each week?

a) How much will I have saved after 2 weeks?

b) How much will I have saved after 10 weeks?

6) I need two cartons of milk and one costs 90p, how much will I have to pay for two?

7) A slice of cake costs £1.20 and I want to buy 3 slices, how much money do I need?

8) How much did the school raise for Comic Relief if the classes raised the following amounts of money?

Year 1 £4.50

Year 2 £3.23

Year 3 £6.78

Year 4 £10.67

Year 5/6 £11.85

Homework - Money problems – Mental method or written method? You decide!

1) A ticket to see Olly Murs costs £40. How much do I pay for 3 people?

2) If three people went for a haircut and it was £6.45 each, how much would it cost altogether?

3) What’s the difference between £3.75 and £4.85?

4) Bus Fares: Child single = 50p. Child return = 79p. Adult single = 80p. Adult return = £1.02. If two adults and three children all want a return ticket, how much will they have to pay altogether?

5) If I have £20.50 and I spend £7.31, how much do I have left?

6) Petrol costs 80p per litre. How many litres can I buy for £40?

7) Two men worked on a car for 3 hours. One man’s labour is £5 per hour, the other man’s is £3.50 per hour. What is the total bill for labour?

8) Petrol costs 81.9p per litre. How much does it cost if I travel 20 km if my car uses 0.25 litres every 10 km?

9) If you bought 5 kilos of potatoes at 23p a kilo and a bag of carrots costing 39p a bag, how much change would you get from £5?

10) I went to the shop and bought some groceries for my Grandma. They cost £29.65. Grandma gave me £40.00, how much change did I have?

11) I have £20 to spend on clothes, I spend £10.50. How much do I have left?

12) I went to tescos and bought 2 packets of sweets at 28p each, 1 ball at 99p and a toy at £1.56. How much did it all cost?

13) Would it be better value to buy 4 packets of biscuits each with 10 in costing 50p a pack than 1 large pack with 120 biscuits costing £5.99?

14) A takeaway costs £13.75 and I give the delivery man £20, how much change will I get in return?

15) Four One Direction tickets cost £180 in total, how much was it for each ticket?