Decimals

  1. A tailor bought 600 metres of cloth at $2.20 per metre. If each metre cost $0.20 less, how much more cloth could he buy with the same amount of money?
  2. A racket and 4 shuttlecocks cost $13. The racket costs $5.50 more than a shuttlecock. Find the cost of a shuttlecock.
  3. Book A cost 30 cents more than Book B. Book B cost 60 cents more than Book C. Gopal bought 4 books of each type. He paid $30 in all. Find the cost of each book.
  4. 1 kg of sugar and 1 kg of flour cost $1.80 altogether. A housewife bought 2 kg of sugar and 4 kg of flour for $5. How much did 2 kg of sugar cost?
  5. Mrs Lin bought 12 pears and 4 apples. Mrs Wang bought 12 apples and 4 pears. Mrs Wang paid $1.60 less than Mrs Lin. If an apple cost 35 cents, how much did a pear cost?
  6. Limei went to market with $48. This amount of money was just enough to buy 4 kg of beef and 3 kg of mutton. Limei, however, bought 3 kg of beef and 4 kg of mutton, and had $1.50 left. Find the cost of 1 kg of mutton.
  7. Meihua bought some pears and apples for $4. There were 7 more apples than pears. A pear cost 50 cents and an apple cost 25 cents. How many pears and how many apples did she buy?
  8. A transport company delivered 1000 vases for Mr Li. It charged $0.40 for every vase safely delivered. But it had to pay Mr Li $5.10 for each vase broken. If Mr Li paid a total of $383.50 for the delivery, how many vases were broken?
  9. Box A contains 50 cent coins and Box B contains 20 cent coins. There are 19 more coins in Box B than in Box A. But the amount of money in Box A is $1.30 more than in Box B. How much money is in Box A?
  10. Mary gets $0.20 more pocket money than John every day. Each of them spends $0.70 a day and saves the rest. If John saves $25 and Mary saves $10 more than John, how much pocket money does John get a day?
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