WORD PROBLEMS WITH DECIMALS
DIRECTIONS:
- Write money in proper form.
- Reduce fractions/ratios to lowest terms.
- Round decimals to the nearest cent/hundredths.
1) An ice climber had the local mountaineering shop install boot heaters to the back of his hiking boots. The installer drilled a hole inch in diameter. The hole for the boot heater should have been 0.5 inch in diameter. Is the hole too large or too small?
2) Demitri had a contractor build an outdoor deck for his back porch. He now has $1131.75 to pay off and he agreed to pay $125.75 per month. How many more payments on the outdoor deck must he make?
3) The College is purchasing new carpeting for CAD. What is the price of a carpet that is 19.6 yards wide and 254.2 yards long if the cost is $12.50 per square yard?
4) Nina bought 50 pounds of dog food for $19.95. What is the unit cost (price per pound)?
5) Carlos filled 12.3 gallons of gas for $10.40. What is the unit cost (price per gallon)?
6) On Tuesday, Torie had to travel for her job. She spent $17.42 on lunch, $8.73 on telephone calls, $0.95 on tolls and $9.25 on gas. How much did her company reimburse her for the expenses?
7) How many $0.30 postcards can Stefano buy with a $50 bill?
8) Oscar bought pounds of shrimp for his first spring barbecue. He paid $93.88 for the shrimp. What was the cost per pound of the shrimp?
9) The local supermarket advertised cherries for $1.99 per pound. Carla bought 5.5 pounds. How much did Carol pay for the cherries?
10) Terrell, while shopping in Pathmark, noticed the following prices on rolls of Saran wrap:
25 feet for $0.52 75 feet for $1.85 100 feet for $2.69
Which package is the best buy and why?
11) A patient is to receive 0.05 grain of atropine sulfate. Thus far, she has received 0.035 grain of atropine sulfate. How much more of the medication does she need?
12) Wanda bought 3 pairs of jeans for $29.99 each, 4 blouses for $12.29 each, a pair of shoes for $39.95, and 2 CD’s at $14.99 each. How much did Wanda spend?
13) Thalia is the environmental inspector for Morganville, Tennessee. She examined four buildings for lead contamination and found the following:
ADDRESS LEAD MEASUREMENT
567 Park Avenue 7/8 mg/cc
1412 Nicholls Pl. 0.9746 mg/cc
9083 Seminole Rd. 5/9 mg/cc
1639 Broadway 0.76 mg/cc
a) How many 0.04 mg slides can Thalia make from the 1412 Nicholls Pl. sample?
b) Thalia heard of a building in another county that had 15.4 times as much lead as 1412 Nicholls Place. What is the lead level in the building in the other county?
c) What is the sum of all the samples?
d) Which sample had the least amount of lead?
e) How much smaller is the sample from 1639 Broadway than the sample from 1412 Nicholls Avenue?
14) What is the balance of your checking account, if you start with a balance of $147.62, and write checks for $5.76, $13.85, and $124.99?
15) What is the cost per ounce of cheese that costs $2.9-0 for 7.6 ounces?
16) Art’s Rent-A-Heap charges $24.99 per day and $0.24 per mile to rent a car. If you rented a car for five days and drove 565 miles, how much would your bill be?
17) If cola costs $2.19 per six-pack and you drink eighteen cans per month, how much would you spend on soft drinks in a year?
18) At the beginning of Tom’s trip, his odometer read 24476.5. At the end of Tom’s trip, his odometer read 24977.8. He used 20.9 gallons of gas. How many miles per gallon of gas did Tom get on his trip?
19) In a long distance call, a phone company charges $2.35 for the first three minutes and $0.13 for each additional minute. How much would a half hour call cost?
20) Jared has budgeted $50 for lunch this week. On Monday, he spent $14.35. On Tuesday, he spent $5.65. On Wednesday, he spent $6.70. On Thursday, he spent $13.25. On Friday, he spent $18.00. Did Jared stay within his budget? If not, by how much did he go over?
21) If you earn $6.50 per hour and time-and-half for overtime, what would you earn in a week in which you worked 40 regular hours and 10 overtime hours?
22) Gina earns $53,445 per year. How much does Gina earn each week?
23) In 1991, a meal of a cheeseburger, fries, and a soft drink was purchased in Bloomfield, NJ for $4.63 while in New York City the same meal was $7.97. How many more meals could you buy for $100 in Bloomfield than in N.Y.C.?
24) “Why pay $100 a year for a cell phone, when you can pay $9.95 per month with us.” What is wrong with that advertisement?
25) Roland’s gross (before taxes) pay each week is $1356.44. Roland’s net (after taxes) pay is $987.11. How much taxes does Roland pay each week?
26) To find how much commission Alexis makes when she sells a home, she multiplies the value of the home by 0.06. How much commission did Alexis make in one week if she sold two homes worth $1,500,000 each?
27) A bedroom set costs $3456.89. The Plaques made a down payment of $666.89. How many months will it take for the Plaques to pay the remainder of the bedroom set if they make payments of $155 each month?
28) At Eat Out Diner, breakfasts average $5.75 each, while lunches average $10.50 each. How much did the restaurant collect if 125 breakfasts and 230 lunches were ordered?
29) A dress that costs $57.99 is on sale for off. What is the sale price of the dress?
30) How many hours does a person making $6.78 per hour have to work in order to earn $257.64?
31) Lara is losing weight by walking each evening after dinner. During the first week of February she lost 1.75 pounds. During the second week in February she lost 0.75 pounds. During the third and fourth week she lost 1.9 pounds each week. How many total pounds did Lara lose in February?
32) Malcolm took a taxi from KennedyAirport in New York to his hotel in Manhattan. The taxi charges $3.00 for the first 3 minutes and $1.25 for each additional minute. It took 35 minutes to get from the airport to the hotel and Malcolm tipped the driver $8.00. How much change did Malcolm get back if he gave the driver a $100 bill?
33) At her 4-month checkup, baby Grace weighed 35.7 pounds. When she was born, she weighed 9.8 pounds. How much weight did Grace gain since she was born?
34) Kenny is making payments on his Ford Escort of $155.40 per month for the next 5 years. How much will he have spent in car payments after he sends in his final payment?
35) Mei Lee works for a company that manufactures electronic equipment and earns $14.70 per hour for a 37 ½ hour week.
a) How much does she earn in one week?
b) How much does she earn in one year (her vacation and sick days are paid)?
36) Jeremy bought 1000 shares of stock each worth $1.45. Two months later, he sold all the shares of stock at $1.99 per share? How much profit did Jeremy make on the stock?
37) In 1992, FEMA spent $1.92 billion on relief costs for Hurricane Andrew. In 1998, FEMA spent $2.51 billion on relief cost for Hurricane George. How much more money on relief costs did FEMA spend on Hurricane George than on Hurricane Andrew?
38) For their wedding, Frank and Josephine spent $15178.62 for the reception. If there were 138 guests at the wedding, how much did each person’s dinner cost?
39) Wally owns a Plymouth Breeze that travels 360 miles on 13.2 gallons of gas. How many miles per gallon of gas does Wally get on his car?
40) Thessa went to the supermarket to do her weekly grocery shopping. She purchased 3 boxes of pasta for $1.09 per box, 5 cans of tuna for $0.89 per can, a carton of eggs for $1.29, 3 bottles of coke for $1.49 per bottle, 4.5 pounds of chopped meat for $5.99 per pound, and a carton of ice cream for $5.79. Her tax on items totaled $2.34. She handed the clerk 3 coupons: $0.35 off on a bottle of coke, $1.00 off on 3 boxes of pasta, and $0.50 off on 2 cans of tuna. What was Thessa’s total bill?
ANSWERS:
1) too small 2) 9 payments 3) $62,279 4) $0.40/lb 5) $0.85/gal 6) $36.35 7) 166 cards
8) $8.16/lb 9) $10.95 10) 25 ft 11) 0.015 grain 12) $209.06 13) a) 24 slides
b) 15.00884 c) 3.16515… d) Seminole Rd. 14) $3.02 15) $0.38/oz 16) $260.55
17) $78.84 18) 23.99 mi/gal 19) $5.86 20) $7.95 over 21) $357.50 22) $1027.79
23) 9 more meals 24) $119.40 > $100 25) $369.33 26) $180,000 27) 18 months
28) $3133.75 29) $38.66 30) 38 hrs 31) 6.3 lbs 32) $49.00 33) 25.9 lbs 34) $9324
35) a) $551.25 b) $28,665 36) $540 37) $590,000,000 38) $109.99/guest
39) 27.3 mi/gal 40) $46.72
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