IXL | Multi-step word problems

Tammy has $20 to spend at the movie theater. She spends $9.50 on a movie ticket. If the snack counter sells bags of candy for $3.50 each, how many bags of candy can Tammy buy with the money she has left?

Write your answer as a whole number or decimal.

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Harper needs to buy some new leotards for gymnastics practice. At the sporting goods store, she finds 2 leotards on sale for $24.80 each. She buys them both and finds out that she saved a total of $22.38. If she saved the same amount on each one, what was the original price of each leotard?

solution

You need to find the original price of each leotard. Since you know the total amount of money Harper saved, start by finding how much she saved on each leotard.

Harper saved a total of $22.38. The amount she saved was evenly divided between 2 leotards.

	1	1	.	1	9
2	2	2	.	3	8
– 2
	0	2
– 2
		0		3
– 2
				1	8
– 1					8
					0

Harper saved $11.19 on each leotard.

Now add to find the original price of each leotard. For each one, Harper paid $24.80 and saved $11.19.

The original price of each leotard was

$35.99.

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