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Calculating Change with Decimals
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Calculating Change with Decimals
Show your working for money calculations. Write all amounts in dollars and cents.
Recognising and writing money amounts
1.A New Zealand $2 coin has a value of two dollars. Which amount writes this value in dollars and cents?
- $0.20
- $1.00
- $2.00
2.Write three dollars and seventy-two cents in decimal notation.
3.Write nine dollars and six cents in decimal notation.
4.Write twenty-three dollars and forty cents in decimal notation.
Calculate the change
5.At a hospital kiosk, Manaia buys a fruit cup for $5.65 and pays with a $10 note. How much change should Manaia receive?
6.Rawiri buys a tea for $3.80 and a toasted sandwich for $6.45. If he pays with $20, what is the total cost and how much change should he get?
7.Arjun buys a puzzle book for $11.95 and pays with a $20 note. Calculate his change.
8.A visitor buys a bottle of water for $2.85 and a snack for $4.70. They pay with a $10 note. Find the total cost and the change.
Show a method and check your answer
9.A magazine costs $8.45 and is paid for with $10. Write a subtraction sentence to find the change, calculate it, then check by adding the cost and change.
10.A set of headphones costs $16.35. A customer pays $20. Estimate the change by rounding the cost to the nearest dollar, then calculate the exact change. Is the exact answer close to your estimate?
Shopping problems
11.At the hospital kiosk, a yoghurt costs $2.60 and a cheese roll costs $4.85. Rawiri buys one of each and pays with $10. Find the total cost and his change.
12.Which subtraction correctly finds the change from $20 for an item costing $13.75?
- $20.00 + $13.75
- $20.00 − $13.75
- $13.75 − $20.00
- $13.75 + $20.00
Challenge
13.Manaia has $30. She buys three items costing $7.65, $5.80 and $8.25. What is the total cost, and how much money will she have left?
14.A customer pays with $25 and receives $6.85 in change. What was the cost of the purchase?
15.Explain how you can use addition to check a change calculation.
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