Money
U.S. coin word problems
Read original coin stories, identify the relevant counts and find the value of one or several denomination groups.
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Buy two item types
Find the total cost of two relevant purchase categories, including stories with more than one unit of an item.
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Find the two item categories named by the question. For each category, use the number purchased and its unit price to calculate a subtotal. Add those two subtotals, leaving out information about unrelated purchases or possessions.
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Distinguish a unit price from a line total and add the costs belonging to the requested purchase.
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Sam buys 3 notebooks at $1.25 each and 2 pencils at $0.40 each. What is the total cost?
$4.55.
The notebooks cost 3 × 125 = 375 cents and the pencils cost 2 × 40 = 80 cents. Together they cost 455 cents, or $4.55. There are two item types but five individual items.
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- Underline quantity and unit price as a pair, then write a line total for each item type.
- Check an estimate before the exact answer: about $4 for the notebooks and under $1 for the pencils gives a useful scale.
- Grade 3 curation assumes readiness for repeated addition or multiplication and money notation; simplify the quantities when those skills are still developing.
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