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Australian Money Place Value
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Australian Money Place Value
Help plan a small market-day shop using Australian dollars and cents. Read each amount carefully: the first two digits after the decimal point show cents. Show your thinking where asked.
Read and build money amounts
Use dollars and cents place value to decode the shop prices.
1.A jar contains 3 one-dollar coins, 2 ten-cent coins and 5 one-cent coins. Write the total as a money amount, with two digits for the cents.
2.The price tag says $4.07. What is the value of the 7 in this number?
- 7 dollars
- 7 cents
- 70 cents
- 7 tens of cents
3.Write $6.38 in expanded form using dollars, tenths of a dollar and hundredths of a dollar. For example, describe each digit's place value.
4.Match each amount written in words with its decimal form.
- Two dollars and nine cents
- Two dollars and ninety cents
- Nine dollars and two cents
- $9.02
- $2.09
- $2.90
Compare prices and spot patterns
Use the place of each digit to make careful comparisons.
5.A fruit cup costs $3.50, a juice costs $3.05 and a muffin costs $3.15. Which item costs the most? Explain what place-value clue helped you decide.
6.Put these market prices in order from least to greatest: $1.80, $1.08, $1.18, $1.81.
7.Complete the price pattern. The price rises by 10 cents each time: $2.15, $2.25, $2.35, , , $2.65.
8.A label has been smudged: $5.__. The amount is five dollars and six cents. What two digits belong after the decimal point?
Solve the shop puzzle
Use addition and place value to help the market stall run smoothly.
9.Eli buys a bookmark for $1.35 and a small plant for $2.40. What is the total cost?
10.A customer says $2.30 is less than $2.03 because 3 is less than 30. Is the customer correct? Explain using the cents place values.
11.Challenge: A stall earns $8.47 from a sale. Write the amount as dollars plus cents, then state the value of the 4 and the 7.
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