Word Problems: Decimals

Read, analyze and solve the following.

5. Mother bought 2.35 kg of pork, 3.75 kg of chicken, 1.1 kg of beef,

and 1 kg of liver. How many kilograms of meat did Mother buy in all?
Answer each problem.

1. During a vacation, Bens records showed gasoline purchases of

19.75 gallons, 15.4 gallons, 13.85 gallons and 21.06 gallons. How many
gallons of gasoline did he buy?

1. Gloria bought a t-shirt for Php.95.75 and a book for Php.175.60. how

2. The perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of the length of its

sides. Find the perimeter of a triangle whose sides are 8.75 cm, 9.6 cm
and 10.375 cm.

afternoon. Did he cover at least 100 km?

3. A household consumes 222.5 liters of water a day. One faucet leaks

3. Rachel has P 3 316.40 in her savings account. If she made

withdrawals of P 285.00, P 472.46 and P 1 042.25, how much money is
left in her account?

household consumes when the faucet is fixed?

4. The Math Club raised Php 1 225.00 during their fund raising

4. One week a jogger ran the following distances : 15.3 km , 18.75 km ,

19 km , 21.5 km, 25.375 km and 30.25 km. If his weekly average is 150
km, did he run less or more?
5. Romeo has P 20 000 in available credit on his Visa charge card. If
she purchases a portable CD player for P 8 139.55, a boom box for P
399.95 and two way speakers for P 3 425.05, how much available credit
does she have left ?
Read, analyze and solve.
1. Alex traveled 41.3 kilometers on Monday and 53.75 kilometers on
Tuesday. How many kilometers did he travel in two days?
2. In a midnight sale, a radio cassette player was sold at P 1 449.95. If
its regular price was P 1 950.50, how much less was the sale price?
3. Anna bought a bunch of flowers for P 125.50. If she gave a P 100
bill and P 50 bill, how much was her change?
4. The rainfall on four consecutive days during a typhoon was 10.31
cm, 12.72 cm, 18.39 cm and 9.84 cm. Find the total rainfall during the
typhoon.

much more did the book cost than the t-shirt?

2. A salesman traveled 78.45 km in the morning and 25.24 km in the

12.25 liters of water a day. Estimate how many liters of water a day a

campaign. The club will be buying 3 items worth Php495.00,

Php347.50 and Php862.90. How much more money does the club
need to buy the items?
5. A rectangular garden measures 22.7 meters by 16.6 meters. Estimate
how many meters of fencing material are needed to enclose it.
Solve the following problems.
1. The perimeter of a quadrilateral is 412.95 cm. If the three known
sides measures 85.56cm, 112.77 cm, and 85.26 cm, how long is
the fourth side?
2. I bought 4 items worth P39.90, P68.60, P 58.75 and P120.25.
How much change will I get from P 500-bill?
3. A rectangle is 13.8cm. long and and 9.7 cm wide. Find its
perimeter.
4. Obed and Dario hiked 15.1 km. In one day and 13.75 km in the
next day. How many kilometres did they hiked in all?
5. Mr. De Guzman and the boys spent P 567.75 for food and P
175.50 for transportation during the Science Fair Camp. If they
had P 800.00 to spend, how much money was left?

Analyze and sole the ff. Problems.

1. The diameter of the earth is 12 763.29 kilometers. If Mercurys

diameter is about 7 913.04 kilometers shorter than that of the earth,
what is the diameter of Mercury?
2. Luz wants to buy a bag that costs 375.95. If she has saved
148.50 for it, how much more does she need?

5. Celia earned 174.75 in 5 days from selling sampaguita, About

how much was her average earnings?
Read, analyze and solve the following problems.
1. A nutritionist poured 0.70 liter of honey into 0.14 liter plastic
cups filled.
2. A rectangular rice field is 0.04 kilometer wide and has an area

3. Martha bought 2.5 m of yellow ribbon, 3.4 m of red, 8.75 m of white,

and 3.70 m of blue. How many metres of ribbon did she buy
altogether?

of 0.80 square kilometer. Find the length of the field.

3. A city government plans to put streetlights along its 8.40 km

4. Delia filled the container with 3.5 litres of water. Her mother used
0.75 litres of water for cooking and 1.25 litres for palamig. How
much water was left in the container?

How many streetlights will the city government need?

4. Mother paid Php198.45 for 0.81 kg of rice. How much did a

5. Mang Caloy cut four pieces of bamboo. The first piece was 0.75
metre; the second was 2.278 metres, the third was 6.11 metres,
and the fourth was 6.72 metres. How much longer were the third
and fourth pieces put together than the first and second pieces put
together?
Solve the following problem.
1. If a notebook is 5.25, how much is the cost of 6 notebooks?
2. A working student earns 25.50 an hour. How much does he earn
in 4 hours? If he works 3 days a week, how much does she earn a
week?
3. Mrs. De Guzmans class rode is 3.8 mile to the observatory. The
next closest observatory is 13 times as far. How many miles is the
second observatory?
4. Leonila bought 7 meters of plastic cover for 69.75. About how
much did each meter cost?

main road. The streetlights are to be placed 0.20 km apart.

kilogram of rice cost her?

5. A hiker walked 5.75 kilometers in 1.25 hours. What was his
average speed?
Read, analyze and solve the following problems.
1. What is the quotient if 24 is divided by 48?
2. Jean has 35 m of wire for hanging pictures. She wants to
divide it into 50 pieces for her frames. How long did she used
for each frame?
3. Father left Php5.00 for his 7 children. How much did each child
received?
4. Mang Ricky is a hardworking man who owns 6 hectares of
land. In his will, he divided his lot equally
Among his 7 sons. How much land each of his son received?
5. Troy and Raffy went to the market to buy 15 kilos of pork.
When they came home, they divided the meat into 16 parts
and put it in plastic bags for future use. How many kilos of pork
does each bag contains?