Container A holds 5 times as much milk as Container B. After
1.25 1 of milk from Container A are poured into Container B,
i) both containers have the same amount of milk. How much milk
does each container hold at first? Round off each answer to
n 1 decimal place.
q §BE Tobby had a total of $29.95 in his piggy bank. He had 8
7 one-dollar coins, 28 fifty-cent coins, 36 ten-cent coins, some
twenty-cent coins and less than 5 five-cent coins. How many
La twenty-cent coins and five-cent coins did he have?
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Kino’s Cate
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Child #8.80
Adult 12.75
A tour group consisting of 25 adults and 14 children had their
set-lunch at Kino’s Cafe.
a) How much was their total bill?
b) The tour leader paid the bill with 9 fifty-dollar notes and
tipped the waiter with the change he received. How much
was the tip?
Meng Jin had equal lengths of blue and red nylon strings
at first. After using 15.5 m of blue string and 32.5 m of red
string, the length of blue string left was 5 times the length of
the remaining red string. What was the length of each nylon
string at first?
“BF Four Operations on Decimals: Solving Word Problems& You may use a calculator to solve these problems,
® sunjie bought 20 similar pens and 20 similar pencils. Each
pencil cost $1.10 more than each pen. The total cost of all the
pens and pencils was $54. What was the cost of each pen?
@ The total mass of Abdul and his baby brother is 15.25 kg, The
total mass of Abdul and his father is 72.25 kg. Abdul's father
is 13 times as heavy as the baby. What is Abdul's mass?
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4b@ The fare rates of a taxi service are as follows.
_ Distance travelled ———|_Charge
Ist km or less $2.50
| Every 210 m thereafter or less - up to 10 km | $0.10
| Every 175 hereafter or less ~ after 10 km | $0.10
peereee cece Sees ah
Surcharge for taking taxi from Chan Airport | $4
A tourist boarded a taxi from Changi Airport and headed for
a hotel 11 km away. How much taxi fare did the tourist pay?
@ a) A few days ago, Jackie exchanged $350 to Malaysia
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Ringgit (RM) using the exchange rate of $1 to RM2.3412.
How much Malaysia Ringgit did he get?
b)
With your teacher's help, look up the exchange rate”
for Singapore Dollar to Malaysia Ringgit from the local
newspapers or the Internet. Find the difference in amount
Jackie would Feceive if he exchanged $350 for Malaysia
Ringgit using the new exchange rate.
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The price of a calculator is $11.75. After paying for 18 such
calculators, Tiffany gets $8.50 change. How much money has
Tiffany given to the cashier?
Lisa buys 20 kg of rice. She uses 912 g of rice each day. How
much rice is left after 12 days? Express your answer
in kilograms
A box contained 60 similar packets of biscuits. The total mass
of the box and the biscuits was 1.65 kg. After 53 packets of
biscuits were removed, the total mass of the box and the
biscuits left was 700 g. What was the mass of each packet
of biscuits in kilograms? Correct your answer to 3 decimal
places.
4B Review 3“4
Siti bought 6 blouses and 12 T-shirts. The blouse cost 3 times
as much as the T-shirt. How much did she pay altogether?
BA Mr Naidu has | metre of wire. He gives 0.64 m to Peter and
the remaining to Mark. Peter forms a square with his wire and
Mark forms an equilateral triangle. What is the difference in
length of each side of the two shapes?
| Review 3 “9bo
16 similar writing pads and 24 similar jotter books are stacked
in a pile. Their total thickness is 14.4 cm. Each writing pad is 3
times as thick as each jotter book. What is the thickness of the
pile of 24 jotter books?
@® _ Mr Zubir bought a pair of pants, a shirt and a coat. The
pants and the shirt cost $100.90. The pants and the coat cost
$244.50. The coat cost 5 times as much as the shirt, How
much did Mr Zubir pay for his coat?
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Study the decimals below and state the patterns.
1) 03, 06, 09, 12, 15
This is the Soe eee ee eee
2) 4.00, 3.95, 3.90, 3.85, 3.80
This is the —___
3) 01, 03, 09, 27, 81
This is the
Study each pattern and fill in the | with the decimals.
1) 05, 10,
16,
2) 0.12, 0.24, _i.
3) 1.75, 1.70, 165,
i) Write the pattern of 4 decimals based on the relationship given.
1) An increasing pattern of 0.3 beginning with 0.2.
2) A decreasing pattern of 0.5 beginning with 10.1
3) An increasing pattern of 3 times beginning with 0.05.52.
RY Arrange the following sets of decimals in the orders mentioned below.
jf Ascanding: 0.5 5.00 0.05 s0.05 :
2. Descending: 12.6 1.92 21.62 13.56
[,
_, 3. Ascending: 34.79 15.08 26.47- 34.8
[) 4. Descending: 14.36 14.63 41.33 13.99
5. Ascending: 100.14 114.11 104.44 144.04
p>. §- Descending: 210.10 120.01 100.21 211.00
~ Fill inthe numbers tha ate 0. | more and 0.1 lesser than the given
num
Example: [sa] 5a [er]
ee) a
= =o = og
3 (att 8.16 fame] 6[ p7e ea |
887 For each number pattem, write the correct decimal in the box.
. 5.00 5.05 sio 5.20 ‘
+ 2 i222 W212 CN 1.92 11.82
f 3. 0.00 Neen 222 3.33 4.44
4. 6.95 68 6.65 65 CY
5. Nee 734 623 5.12 401
L 6. 15.07 16.32 Sey 18.82 20.07
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