Word problems about change

Difficulty Standard · Set jbw5i2

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1
Two items costing $6.67 and $3.49 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
2
Two items costing $3.84 and $8.59 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
3
Two items costing $9.96 and $9.83 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
4
Two items costing $5.45 and $1.43 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
5
Two items costing $7.58 and $4.13 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
6
Two items costing $7.87 and $5.61 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
7
Two items costing $7.47 and $8.63 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
8
Two items costing $8.29 and $8.42 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
9
Two items costing $1.80 and $5.40 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
10
Two items costing $6.31 and $2.95 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
11
Two items costing $9.41 and $4.75 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
12
Two items costing $6.79 and $4.75 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
13
Two items costing $5.71 and $3.09 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
14
Two items costing $7.30 and $1.92 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
15
Two items costing $9.55 and $2.74 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
16
Two items costing $3.75 and $6.11 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
17
Two items costing $2.26 and $5.79 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
18
Two items costing $8.18 and $4.01 are paid for with a $20 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
19
Two items costing $1.73 and $3.04 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
20
Two items costing $1.51 and $4.14 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1.07 to 20.
Every problem in it will take two steps.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: only the first item was taken off the 10 dollars.
Answers are an amount with two decimal places.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 239 different ones, 100% — 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.