P6 Decimals Word Problem

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1. A kilogram of rice costs $6. What is the cost of 400 gr of the rice?

2. A shop owner bought 30 files and some diaries. He paid $82.50 for the files. Each diary cost
10 times as much as a file. What was the cost of each diary?
3. There are 1000 workers in a factory. Each worker works 30 hours a week and is paid $5.50
an hour. How much does this company have to pay the workers altogether this week?
4. A motorist drives from home to his office. The distance between his home and office is 32.27
km. After driving 15.65 km, he stopped at a petrol station. How much further does he have
to drive before he arrives at his office? Give your answer to the nearest kilometers
5. Mrs Lee ought 10.58 kg of fish paste. She used 0.025 kg of fish paste for each fish ball. She
made 300 fish balls in all. How much fish paste was left?
6. One lap of a racing track measures 4.68 km. During a race of 56 laps, a driver stops to refuel
after completing 29 laps. How many kilometers more does he have to drive to finish the
race?
7. Madam Rokiah bought 300 m of ribbon to make some decorative flowers. She used 1.22 m
to make one large flower. She made 200 such large flowers and 100 smaller flowers with the
remaining ribbon. What was the length of ribbon used to make one small flower?
8. Beena bought some buns and cakes for $24.80. A bun and a cake cost 90 cents altogether.
She bought more buns than cakes. The cost of the extra number of buns was $6.80. How
many cakes did she buy?
9. A plastic tub has a capacity 13.5 liters. It can hold 3 times as much liquid as a pail. The pail
can hold twice as much liquid as a tin. Find the capacity of the pail and that of the tin in liters
10. Pauline mixed 0,32 l of syrup with 12 times as much water to make orange squash. She
poured the orange squash equally into 6 bottles. Find the volume of orange squash in each
bottle in liters, correct to 2 decimal places
11. May paid $35 for 10 kg of raisins. She put half of the total mass of raisins into pack A and the
remaining raisins into pack B. Then, she sold the raisins in Pack A at $4.50 per kg and that in
pack B at $5.50 per kg. If she sold all the raisins, how much money did she earn?
12. Sasha has 3 similar big cups and 3 similar small cups. The total mass of 6 cups is 498.7 gr. The
mass of the bigger cup is three times the mass of the small cup. Find the total mass of the 3
small cups, correct to 2 decimal places.

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