Decimal Word Problems

A gardener installed 42.6 meters of fencing in a week. He installed 13.45 meters on Monday and 9.5 meters on Tuesday. He installed the rest of the fence in equal lengths on Wednesday through Friday. How many meters of fencing did he install on each of the last three days?

• 6.55

• 19.65

• 9.825

• 65.5

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CCSS.7.NS.A.3

Jenny charges $9.15 an hour to babysit toddlers. If Jenny babysat toddlers for 9 hours, how much money did she make?

• 81.45

• 81.945

• 82.35

• 82.34

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Jenny charges $7.45 an hour to babysit school-aged children. If Jenny babysat school-aged children for 6 hours, how much money did she earn in all?

• 42.75

• 35.30

• 35.24

• 44.70

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

A table and 8 chairs weigh 235.68 lb together. If the table weighs 157.84 lb, what is the weight of one chair in pounds?

• 77.84

• 9.73

• 401.52

• 69.84

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Mrs. Cleaver mixes 1.24 liters of red paint with 3 times as much blue paint to make purple paint. How much purple paint does she have?

• 4.24

• 3.72

• 1.76

• 5.16

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CCSS.7.EE.B.3

Mrs. Clever has 3.72 liters of purple paint. If she divides the paint equally into 5 containers, how much purple paint will be in each container?

• 744

• 74.4

• 7.44

• 0.744

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Jerry bought 6.95 lbs. of cherry and lime jelly beans for his birthday party. If 1.75 lbs. were cherry flavor, how many pounds were lime flavor?

• 8.7

• 12.1625

• 5.2

• 5.21

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Nancy was buying food for her birthday party. She bought a 52.93 oz bag of barbeque chips and a 79.6 oz bag of regular chips. How many ounces did she buy all together?

• 132.53

• 26.67

• 4,213.228

• 26.789

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

John ate some snacks with a total of 80.79 calories. If the chips he ate were 43.39 calories, how many calories were in the rest of his snack?

• 124.18

• 2.34

• 3,505.4781

• 37.40

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

Joy drinks 4 bottles of water per day. Each bottle contains 16.5 fluid ounces. How many fluid ounces of water does she drink per day?

• 20.5

• 4.125

• 66

• 12.5

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3