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NZ Money Recognition

Help plan a class market stall using New Zealand dollars and cents. Read each task carefully. Show your working for money calculations. For cash payments, round the purchase total to the nearest 10 cents before calculating change.

Meet New Zealand money

New Zealand coins are 10c, 20c, 50c, $1 and $2. Notes are $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. The $1 and $2 coins are gold-coloured; the cent coins are silver-coloured. New Zealand banknotes have different colours: $5 is orange, $10 is blue, $20 is green, $50 is purple and $100 is red.

1.At the market stall, a visitor finds a gold-coloured coin worth 50 cents. Is this a New Zealand coin? Explain your answer using the coin colours and values.

2.Which note should you look for if you need a blue New Zealand banknote?

$5
$10
$50
$100

3.Put these values in order from smallest to largest: $20, 10c, $2, 50c, $5.

Stock the stall

The stall sells fruit, baking and handmade bookmarks. You can combine coins and notes to make the exact amount for each purchase.

4.A fruit bag costs $7. Write two different combinations of New Zealand notes and coins that make exactly $7.

5.Rawiri buys a loaf of baking for $6.40 and pays with a $10 note. How much change should she receive?

6.Which payment makes exactly $15 for a bundle of bookmarks?

One $10 note and one $5 note
One $10 note and two $2 coins
One $20 note and one $5 coin

7.A customer pays $20 for a $13.75 purchase. Calculate the change, then show one way the stall worker could give it using New Zealand money.

8.A customer buys three items costing $4.50, $2.80 and $6.20. What is the total? If they pay with a $20 note, how much change do they get?

9.The stall begins with $100. It sells two items for $23 each and one item for $15. How much money has it taken in, and what is the total amount in the till now?

10.Ravi has one $10 note, two $2 coins and three 50c coins. How much money does he have altogether?

11.The price tags on the stall say $3.50, $8.00 and $12.50. Which two items could a customer buy for exactly $16.00? Explain your calculation.