Solve each problem and explain the method you used.
0 1. A pound of apples costs $.79. How much would ten
pounds cost? a hundred pounds? a thousand pounds?0 2. Marco plans to return empty soda cans to the
market and collect the deposit money. If he
receives $0.10 for each can he returns, how
much money will he get for 136 cans?0 3. Cashews cost $3.98 a pound. Jake’s bag
weighed 2.7 pounds. Use estimation to find
the cost of the cashews.0 4. Ming earned $2 working at the grocery store on
Monday, $4 on Tuesday, and $8 on Wednesday.
If this pattern continues, how much would he
earn on Sunday? How can you use exponents
to solve the problem?0 5. Dried apricots cost $.29 per ounce. Mr. Carlson’s bag of dried
apricots weighs 18.8 ounces. How much will his bag of apricots cost?0 6. Ted buys 100 packages of artificial sweetener. Each pack holds
0.035 oz of sweetener. How many ounces of sweetener does Ted buy?0 7. How many ounces of cereal are in a package that includes this
information on the nutrition label?
serving size............................1.25 oz (1 cup)
servings per package ............8.20 8. Andy found that he could buy individual teabags for $0.30 each or
a package of 20 teabags for $4.79. If he plans to buy 20 teabags,
which is the better buy: individual bags or the package?0 9. The grocery store sold about 9.6 106 lb of coffee this year and
1.1 107 lb last year. Which year did the grocery store sell more
coffee? How much more was sold?- Ms. Lee plans to buy 1.8 lb of pasta at $2.95 per pound; 2 lb of ground
beef at $4.29 per pound; and 2.5 lb of tomatoes at $3.98 per pound.
She has a $20 bill. Is this enough for the purchase?
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