Buying groceries

Buying groceries

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This task is about working out how much some things cost.
milk carton.png ice-cream-carton.png chips packet.png
$1.25 $4.65 $2.20
 
 
Ivy bought milk, ice cream and potato chips at the supermarket. 

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a)  How much did they cost altogether? $ 

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b)  If Ivy gave the checkout operator $10, how much change would she receive? $  

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c)  If Ivy had not bought the cheapest item, how much would she have paid? $ 

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d)  Which 2 items could Ivy buy if she had only $5?
     milkice creampotato chips and milkice creampotato chips (Select one from each list)

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Jill has $4.  She wants 3 cans of drink from the drinks machine.
Each can costs $1.20.
e)  How much money will she have left?
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with SOME auto marking).
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Number and Algebra, Number Strategies
Keywords: 
addition, subtraction, decimals, money
Description of task: 
Students use addition and subtraction to work out costs related to the purchase of grocery items.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' ability to apply additive or simple multiplicative ideas flexibly to combine or partition whole numbers to solve addition and subtraction problems.
 
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Additive thinking, sets 6-7
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y7 (06/1996)

Y8 (06/1996)
a) $8.10 very easy very easy
b) 1.90 [Accept 10 – answer to a).] easy easy
c) $6.85 easy very easy
d) milk and potato chips [Accept if total cost of $3.45 is given] very easy very easy
e) 40c easy -