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CHAPTER
12 Decimals: Word Problems
Practice 1 Solving Word Problems (1)
(1) Ron spent $42.65 at a supermarket. He spent $24.50 at a bookshop.
How much did he spend altogether?
$42.65 $24.50
42.65 24.50 67.15
$ $ $
67.15
Ron spent $ altogether.
(2) Carl’s mass was 34.2 kg. His mass was 15.85 kg less than his mother’s.
What was his mother’s mass?
34.2 kg 15.85 kg
Carl
Carl’s mother
34.2 15.85 50.05
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His mother’s mass was 50.05 kg.
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(3) T om’s height was 1.34 m. He was 0.45 m taller than his sister.
What was Tom’s sister’s height?
1.34 m
Tom
Tom’s sister
? 0.45 m
1.34 – 0.45 0.89
Tom’s sister’s height was 0.89 m.
(4) loria wanted to buy a craft set that cost $58.45, but she was short of $12.90.
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How much money did Gloria have?
? $12.90
$58.45
$58.45 – $12.90 $45.55
Gloria had $45.55.
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(5) T he thickness of a piece of wood was 2.45 cm. Pansy stacked 9 pieces of
wood, one on top of the other. Find the total height of the stack of 9 pieces
of wood.
2.45 cm
2.45 9 22.05
The total height was 22.05 cm.
(6) ne f ish tank contained 24.58 l of water. How much water did 4 such
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f ish tanks contain?
24.58 l
24.58 4 98.32
4 such f ish tanks contained 98.32 l of water.
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(7) Harlina bought 15.4 m of cloth to sew 7 identical cushion covers.
How much cloth did Harlina use for each cushion cover?
?
15.4 m
15.4 7 2.2
Harlina used 2.2 m of cloth for each cushion cover.
(8) rs Li bought 4 similar blouses. She spent a total of $67.
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How much did each blouse cost?
?
$67
$67 4 $16.75
Each blouse cost $16.75.
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Practice 2 Solving Word Problems (2)
(1) Peter bought 3 similar packets of potato chips for $4.65.
(a) How much did each packet of potato chips cost?
(b) How much did 8 such packets of potato chips cost?
(a) ?
Remember to use
the four steps to
solve the problem.
$4.65
$ 4.65 3 $ 1.55
Each packet of potato chips cost $ 1.55 .
(b) $ 1.55
$ 1.55 8 $ 12.40
8 such packets of potato chips cost $ 12.40 .
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(2) avid made some fruit punch by mixing mango juice and pineapple juice.
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He used 2.05 l of mango juice and twice as much pineapple juice as
mango juice to make the fruit punch.
(a) How much pineapple juice did David use?
(b) How much fruit punch did David make?
2.05 l
Mango juice
? (b)
Pineapple juice
? (a)
(a) 2.05 2 4.1
David used 4.1 l of pineapple juice.
(b) 4.1 2.05 6.15
David made 6.15 l of fruit punch.
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(3) Tin A contains 4.08 l of blue paint. Tin B contains 5.61 l of white paint.
Joel mixed the paint from both tins. He then used 1.25 l of the paint.
How much paint did Joel have left?
4.08 l 5.61 l
?
4.08 + 5.61 = 9.69
Joel had 9.69 l of paint.
1.25 l
9.69 l
9.69 − 1.25 = 8.44
Joel had 8.44 l of paint left.
(4) identical staplers cost $25. A stapler cost 5 times as much as a box of
4
paper clips. Find the cost of a box of paper clips.
$25
4 staplers
1 box of paper clips
$25 4 $6.25
$6.25 5 $1.25
The cost of a box of paper clips was $1.25.
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(5) S elene used 4.08 m of cloth to sew a dress. She used 1.2 m less cloth to
sew a skirt. How much cloth did Selene need to sew 5 such skirts?
4.08 m
Dress
Skirt
? 1.2 m
4.08 – 1.2 2.88
She used 2.88 m to sew a skirt.
2.88 m
2.88 5 14.4
Selene used 14.4 m of cloth to sew 5 such skirts.
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(6) ritney saved $9.20 a week for 4 weeks. She needed to save another $15.60
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to buy a computer game. What was the price of the computer game?
$9.20
?
$9.20 4 $36.80
Britney saved $36.80 in 4 weeks.
$36.80 $15.60
?
$36.80 $15.60 $52.40
The price of the computer game was $52.40.
(7)
The total mass of 2 similar clay pots and 2 similar metal pots was 13.2 kg.
The mass of 1 such clay pot was 3 times the mass of a metal pot. What was
the mass of a clay pot?
2 clay pots
13.2 kg
2 metal pots
?
13.2 8 1.65
1.65 kg
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1.65 3
4.95
The mass of a clay pot was 4.95 kg.
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(8) Jamie spent a total of $11.60 on 5 identical pens and a ruler.
A ruler cost $1.30 less than a pen. How much did each pen cost?
?
5 pens
$11.60
1 ruler
$1.30
$11.60 $1.30 $12.90
$12.90 6 $2.15
Each pen cost $2.15.
(9) T he total distance from Timothy’s house to his school was 9.18 km.
He travelled by bus for part of the journey and walked the rest of the way.
The distance he walked was 7.95 km less than the distance he travelled
by bus. How far did Timothy walk?
Bus
9.18 km
Walk
? 7.95 km
9.18 7.95 1.23
1.23 2 0.615
Timothy walked 0.615 km.
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(1) dm Azizah gave $76.50 to her 5 children. The money was shared equally
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among them. How much did each child receive?
?
$76.50
$76.50 5 $15.30
Each child received $15.30.
(2) wen paid $9.20 for 6 pencils and a pen. A pen cost twice as much as
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a pencil.
(a) How much did a pencil cost?
(b) How much did a pen cost?
? (b)
1 pen
$9.20
6 pencils
? (a)
(a) $9.20 8 $1.15
A pencil cost $1.15.
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(b) $1.15 2 $2.30
A pen cost $2.30.
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(3) pail contained 3.68 l of water more than a bottle. After Bill poured away
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1.2 l of water from the pail, the pail contained 3 times as much water as
the bottle.
(a) How much more water did the pail contain than the bottle in the end?
(b) How much water did the bottle contain?
? (a) 1.2 l
Pail
Bottle
? (b) 3.68 l
(a) 3.68 – 1.2 2.48
The pail contained 2.48 l of water more than the bottle in the end.
(b) 2.48 2 1.24
The bottle contained 1.24 l of water.
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(4) eena bought 12 rolls of ribbon at 3 for $5.65. How much did Meena pay
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altogether?
$5.65
$5.65 4 $22.60
Meena paid $22.60 altogether.
(5) J erry used 1.25 kg of flour to make a pie. He used 0.9 kg more flour to
Lesson 2
make a cake than he used to make the pie. How much flour did Jerry use
for the pie and the cake altogether?
1.25 kg 0.9 kg
Pie
?
Cake
1.25 0.9 2.15
2.15 1.25 3.4
Jerry used 3.4 kg of flour altogether.
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(6) Sammy made 9 jugs of lemonade for a party.
Lesson 2
Each jug contained 2.76 l of lemonade.
His guests drank 18.2 l of the lemonade.
How much lemonade was there left after the party?
2.76 l
2.76 9 24.84
Sammy made 24.84 l of lemonade.
18.2 l
24.84 l
24.84 – 18.2 6.64
There was 6.64 l of lemonade left after the party.
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(7) T he mass of a dictionary is 1.28 kg. The mass of the dictionary is twice the
Lesson 2
mass of a storybook. The mass of an encyclopaedia is 1.4 kg more than the
storybook. What is the mass of the encyclopaedia?
1.28 kg
Dictionary
Storybook
1.4 kg
Encyclopaedia
1.28 2 0.64
0.64 1.4 2.04
The mass of the encyclopaedia is 2.04 kg.
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(8) A shop sold packets of corn for $1.40 each.
Lesson 2
During a sale, the shop offered 3 packets of corn for $3.60.
Mrs Muthu wanted to buy 7 packets of corn.
What was the least amount that Mrs Muthu had to pay?
$3.60 2 $7.20
$7.20 $1.40 $8.60
The least amount Mrs Muthu had to pay was $8.60.
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(9) T he total mass of a basket and a rock melon was 3.78 kg. When a pomelo
Lesson 2
was added into the basket, the total mass became 5.42 kg. The mass of
the rock melon was twice the mass of the pomelo. What was the mass of
the rock melon?
3.78 kg
5.42 kg
5.42 – 3.78 1.64
1.64 2 3.28
The mass of the rock melon was 3.28 kg.
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(10) in cycled 5.35 km on Saturday. He cycled 2.9 km less on Sunday than on
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Saturday. He cycled 1.5 km more on Monday than on Sunday. What was
the distance Vin cycled on Monday?
5.35 km
Saturday
Sunday 2.9 km
1.5 km
Monday
5.35 – 2.9 2.45
Vin cycled 2.45 km on Sunday.
2.45 1.5 3.95
Vin cycled 3.95 km on Monday.
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