Working out the price of one

Difficulty Stretch · Set bymgzw

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4 identical pens cost $35.76 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
2
10 identical pens cost $68.30 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
3
9 identical pens cost $24.93 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
4
7 identical pens cost $29.89 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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5 identical pens cost $32.25 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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4 identical pens cost $12.96 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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10 identical pens cost $45.70 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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5 identical pens cost $31.40 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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3 identical pens cost $26.85 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
10
6 identical pens cost $39.48 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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2 identical pens cost $3.26 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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2 identical pens cost $14.88 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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5 identical pens cost $7.30 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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10 identical pens cost $65.30 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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2 identical pens cost $3.16 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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2 identical pens cost $8.36 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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9 identical pens cost $20.07 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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5 identical pens cost $28.80 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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6 identical pens cost $27.66 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?
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8 identical pens cost $46.56 altogether. What does one cost, in dollars?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 89.2.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the total was multiplied; one of them costs the total shared between them.
Answers are an amount with two decimal places.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 234 different ones, 98% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.