Decimal Word Problem Practice

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1 Name Date Period Decimal Word Problem Practice Solve the following problems. Show your work, on graph paper: you may write the answers on this worksheet and attach the graph paper. Please write neatly. 1. Sam and 3 friends had lunch together. The total bill for lunch came to $ If they shared the bill equally, how much did they each pay? 6. An albatross has a wingspan greater than the length of a car meters! Wingspan is the length from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing. What is the length of each albatross wing (assuming the wing goes from the center of the body? 2. Jamal spent $6.75 on wire to build a rabbit hutch. Wire costs 45 per foot. How many feet of wire did Jamal buy? 7. Luis bought two pieces of wax to make candles. One piece weighed 3.49 kg, and the other weighed 4.71 kg. If wax costs $1.80 per kg, how much did Luis spend altogether? 3. The City Zoo feeds its three giant pandas Ibs of bamboo shoots every day. Each panda is fed the same amount of bamboo. How many pounds of bamboo does each panda eat every day? 8. Mark earned $ for working 23.5 hours last week. He earned the same amount of money for each hour that he worked. What is Mark's hourly rate of pay? 4. Iona's favorite peaches are $2.50 per pound at the local farmers' market. She bought 3.5 lbs of peaches. How much did she spend? 9. Aerobics classes cost $ for 14 sessions. What is the fee for one session? 5. Lisa's family drove miles to visit her grandparents. Lisa calculated that they used 30.1 gallons of gas. How many miles per gallon did the car average? 10. Aria bought a van that holds gallons of gas and gets an average of 15.5 mpg. How many miles can she expect to go on a full tank?

2 11. A chef bought 84.5 pounds of ground beef. He uses 0.5 pounds of ground beef for each hamburger. How many hamburgers can he make? 17. Manny is on vacation in France. He rented a car to drive kilometers from Paris to Brussels and wants to figure out the distance in miles. To convert from kilometers to miles, he needs to multiply the total kilometers by How many miles will Manny drive? 12. An entire apple pie has 36.8 grams of saturated fat. If the pie is cut into 8 slices, how many grams of fat are in each slice? 13. Ishi makes $8.50 an hour rolling sushi at Kyoto Japanese Restaurant. His paycheck shows that he worked hours over the past two weeks. How much did Ishi make before taxes? 18. Emma bought 22.5 yards of cloth to make curtains for two windows in her apartment. She used the same amount of cloth on each window. How much cloth did she use to make each set of curtains? 14. John ran the city marathon in minutes. The marathon is 26.2 miles long. On average, how many miles per hour did John run the race? 19. Alicia wants to cover a section of her wall that is 2 feet wide and 12 feet long with mirrors. Each mirror tile is 2 feet wide and 1.5 feet IOngl How many mirror tiles does she need to cover that section? 15. Shaneeka is saving $5.75 of her allowance each week to buy a new camera that costs $ How many weeks will she have to save to have enough money to buy it? 20. Sound is used to measure ocean depth. Sound travels 1.5 km per second through water. If it takes 3.7 seconds for a sound to reach the bottom of the ocean, how deep is the water? 16. There are 7.2 milligrams of iron in a dozen eggs. How many milligrams of iron are in 1 egg?

3 Greatest Common Factor Greatest Common Factor.the factor shared by two Jr more whole numbers. List Out the following factors: 1. GCF of 64 and 24? Using the same numbers try the cake method: birthday Which way is easier? 2ÿ There are 12 boys and 18 girls in Mrs. Isola's science class. The students must form lab groups. Each group must have the same number of boys and the same number of girls. What is the greatest number of groups Mrs. Isola can make if every student must be in a group?, Mrs. Heston makes balloon arrangements. She has 32 blue balloons, 24 yellow balloons, and 16 white balloons. Each arrangement must have the same number of each color. What is the greatest number of arrangements that Mrs. Heston can make if every balloon is used?

4 PARTY IT U pm,oo GCF 24 and 36 Celebrate With A Birthday Cake GCF of 48 and 64 GCF of and 40 GCF of and 20 You Try: GCF of 24 and 30 GCF of and 54

5 Name: Date: Period: Greatest Common Factor Homework Directions: List the Greatest Common Factor for each pair of numbers using the birthday cake method. > 9 and and and and 60 S and 12

6 A florist has 36 roses, 27 tulips, and 1S carnations she must use to create bouquets. What is the largest number of bouquets she can make without having any flowers left over? Ming has 15 quarters, 30 dimes, and 48 nickels. He wants to group his money so that each group has the same number of coins. What is the greatest number of groups he can make? The choir director at MPJH wants to divide the choir into smaller groups. There are 24 sopranos, 60 altos, and 36 tenors. Each group will have the same number of each type of voice. What is the biggest number of groups that can be formed? Mrs. Duncan has 60 folders, 45 pairs of scissors, and 30 rulers. What is the greatest number Mrs. Sandoval can use to divide the school supplies into equal groups? **Jared has 12 jars of grape jam, 16 jars of strawberry jam, and 24 jars of raspberry jam. He wants to place the jam into the greatest possible number of boxes so that each box has the same number of jars of each ldnd of jam. How many boxes does he need? **Mrs. Legler is malting fruit baskets. She has 30 apples, 24bannanas, and 12 oranges. What is the largest number of baskets she can make if each type of fruit is distributed equally among the baskets?

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