Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

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Make Change

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Imagine that you are working in a

music store. A customer wants to

buy a CD that costs $13.88 and gives

you a twenty-dollar bill. What coins

and bills would you give the

customer as change? What would

be the value of the change?

To make change:

• Count up from the cost to the amount given.


• Start with the coins that have the least value.


• Use the fewest possible coins and bills.
  amount
  cost given
  $13.88 $13.89 $13.90 $14.00 $15.00 $20.00

Arrange the money in order.

Count the change: $5.00 
 $1.00 
 $0.10 
 $0. 01
 $0.01

$5.00 $6.00 $6.10 $6.11 $6.12

You would give the customer 2 pennies, 1 dime,

1 one-dollar bill, and 1 five-dollar bill as change.

The value of the change is $6.12.

Use money. Write the fewest coins and bills

you would give as change. Then write the

value of the change.

1 1. Cost: $0.81 2. Cost: $2.54

Amount given: $1.00 Amount given: $3.00

twenty-dollar bill

$20.00

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