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Andy bought 4 identical shirts at $12.80 each and spent the rest of the money on 8 identical pairs of socks. He gave $100 to the cashier and received 80 cents change. How much did each pair of socks cost?
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Mrs Thompson baked 175 tarts. She sold 3/5 of them. Each tart was sold for $4. How much money did she collect in total?
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Shirley packed 163 lollipops into plastic bags of 7 lollipops. She used the most number of plastic bags possible. She sold each plastic bag of lollipops at $6 and each remaining lollipop at $2. How much did she get after selling all the lollipops?
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A glue stick cost $1.80. A pair of scissors cost $3.20. Thomas bought an equal number of glue sticks and scissors. He spent $25 in all. How many glue sticks and scissors did he buy in total?
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A man changed $210 into $5 and $2 notes. The number of $5 notes and $2 notes was the same. How many $5 notes did he get?
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Mrs Sim wanted to buy 20 glass bowls but she was short of $8. She then bought 19 glass bowls and had $6 left. Each glass bowl cost the same. How much money did Mrs Sim have at first?
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The table shows the cost of pizza: a Regular is $12 and a Large is $22. Mrs Tan ordered 6 large pizzas and 5 regular pizzas. She gave the delivery man $200. How much change did Mrs Tan receive?
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Star Bookshop is having a promotion: notebooks are $5 each, and for every 2 notebooks bought the third notebook is free (buy 3 for the price of 2). Karen bought 25 notebooks. What is the least amount of money she has spent in total?
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Ken had some money. He used 1/2 of it to buy a shirt and 1/5 of it to buy a pair of pants. He had $180 left. How much money did he have at first?
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Max bought the same number of books and files. Each book cost $7 and each file cost $2. He paid $243 altogether. How many books and files did he buy altogether?
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Mother bought 5 more cups than plates. Each cup cost $8 and each plate cost $3. She paid $183 altogether. How many cups did she buy?
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The total cost of 6 skirts and 3 blouses was $144. Three blouses cost as much as 2 skirts. Find the total cost of one skirt and one blouse.
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Jason has $20. He bought 2 packets of chips and 6 oranges. Chips are $2.50 a packet and oranges are 3 for $1.20. How much money did he have left?
1 packet of chips $2.50 3 oranges for $1.20
(A) $7.40 (B) $7.80 (C) $10.30 (D) $12.60
answer (A) (B) (C) (D)
A stall had a promotion: buy 1 muffin for $3 each, or buy 4 muffins at $11. Mandy wanted to buy 50 muffins. What was the least amount of money Mandy had to pay for all the 50 muffins?
Buy 1 muffin for $3 each Buy 4 muffins at $11
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At a fruit stall, mangoes are sold at 2 for $7 and pears are sold at 3 for $5.50. Mdm Fauziah bought the same number of mangoes and pears. She paid $160 in total. How many mangoes did she buy?
Mangoes 2 for $7 Pears 3 for $5.50
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A rectangular park measures 54 m by 28 m. A pedestrian path 2 m wide and a cyclist path 3 m wide are built along two sides of the park — the pedestrian path wraps the top and left of the park, and the cyclist path wraps the top and left of that. It costs $18 to construct each square metre of the cyclist path. How much does it cost to construct the cyclist path?
################################ -+ 3 m cyclist
##+--------------------------+## -+ 2 m pedestrian
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##| Park | # 28 m
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|<-------- 54 m -------->|
# = the two paths, along the TOP and the LEFT onlyanswer