Chapter (4)

1. Sue earns $25.34 for a month. She has to use $5.6 for
electricity bill, $9.7 for foods, and $2.03 for others.
How much could she save in a month without other
conditions?

2. A car averages 5.5 miles per hour. In 9 hours and 18

minutes, how far could the car reach?

3. If one cell is 2.3 × 104 microns wide and another cell is

3.2× 104 microns wide, then one cell is how much
bigger than the other in microns?

4. May bought 9 adult tickets and 5 child tickets for the

recital. The total she paid was $67. James bought 7
adult tickets and paid $38.50. How much does each
type of ticket cost?

5. How many pints of blood must be donated in order to

supply 9,500 milliliters to the blood drive? (1 quart =
0.95 liters)
6. Jim rented a lawnmower from 9:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
He paid a total of $53.04. What was the hourly rental
fee?

7. A vendor of ornamental rope charges $0.15 per inch or

$1.55 per foot. What is the savings on an order of 7
yards of chain if it is purchased on a per foot-basis
rather than a per inch basis?

8. Fred’s wallet contains coins with a total worth of $1.45.

Suppose he has three times as many dimes as quarters
and has exactly 7 nickels and no pennies. How many
dimes does he have?

9. A painter rented a wallpaper steamer at 9 a.m. and

returned it at 4 p.m. He paid a total of $28.84. What v
the rental cost per hour?

10. If a pen costs $1.29, how many pens can we buy for
$15.00?

11. If 5 books costs $5.4, how many books can we buy

$23.5?
12. Moe bought 7 rulers with $24.4. How much does a
ruler cost?

13. If six apple costs $ 4.86, how much would we need to

buy 10 apples?

14. An orange costs $3.00. If we have 900.6 cents, how

many oranges can we buy?

15. What is the standard form of 4805.9/ 27.975/ 0.0045.

16. U Ba has 9.05× 105 chickens. 4.8× 104 chickens

died. How many chickens will he left?

17. Marry lives 3.45 miles due to east of Donny’s house.

Donny goes 1.5 miles due to east of her house to get a
mini store. How far from the mini market is Marry?

18. Susie is shopping for a few groceries. She buys a loaf

of bread for $1.29 and a half gallon of milk on sale for
$1.47. She sees her favorite cheese on sale for $2.07. If
she has $5.00 in her purse, she can/ cannot (circle one)
buy the cheese if there is no tax on food.
19. In a recent 10-year period, the average age of
Americans claiming Social Security went up from 63.6
to 64.7 for men. How much was the age increase for
men claiming Social Security over that period?

20. A specialized part for a manufacturing process has a

thickness of 1.2 × 10−3 inches. To the ten-thousandth
of an inch, what would be the thickness of a stack of 10
of these parts?

21. A 32-ounce bag of potato chips has a retail cost of

$3.45. To the nearest 10th of a cent, what is the price per
ounce of this item (in cents)?

22. A customer uses two coupons to purchase a product

at a grocery store, where the original price of the
product was $8.30. If the final price paid by the
customer was $7.00 and each coupon gave the same
discount, what was the value of the discount provided
by a single coupon?

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23. The rational numbers 0.78, 0.77, 0.788, , in
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descending order are:
24. To do a 12-page report, a word processor charges
$26.50. His fee includes a $2.50 delivery charge. How
much does he charge per page?

25. A water pitcher weighs 0.64 kg when empty and

1.728 kg when filled with water. How much does the
water weigh?

26. A cyclist has traveled 145.8 km in the first stage of a

race, 136.65 km in the second stage and 162.62 km in
the third. How many kilometers must the cyclist still
complete if the entire race is 1000 km in length?

27. In a well filled with water, 184.5 liters are removed

followed by 128.75 liters and finally 84.5 liters. After
these withdrawals, there are 160 liters in the well. How
much water did the well originally have?

28. Eva is on a diet which states that she cannot consume

more than 600 calories in one meal. Yesterday she had
lunch: 125 g of bread, 140 g of asparagus, 45g of
cheese and an apple of 130g. If 1g of bread has 3.3
calories, 1g of asparagus=0.32, 1g of cheese=1.2, and
1g of an apple=0.52. Did Eva follow her diet?
29. Jack wants to make toys with the rate 5 toys per day.
He works 9 hours and 45 minutes. How long should he
take to make a toy?

30. Hellen has to use $4.56 for food, $8.96 for electric
bill, $10.90 for other necessaries. She earns $20 a week
in her work. If a toy she wants costs $5.24, how many
toys can she buy and save for two weeks.