Purchase & Sale Problems ( Week 22 Practice)
1. How much (in dollars) do 1000 pieces of chocolate cost if 10 pieces cost $3? 2. Alice can buy a dozen candy bars for 24 cents. If she spends $4.8 on the candy bars and sells them for a total of $24, how much will she charge (in cents) for each candy bar? 3. Laura spent $3.84 on the pencils and sold them for a total of $7.68. If 12 pencils cost $0.96 when being bought, how much did she charge (in cents) for each pencil when she sold it? 4. A shipping company charges $2.2 for a package that weighs under 4 pounds. It charges 44 cents for each additional pound over 4 pounds. How much (in dollars) will it cost to ship a 68 pound package? 5. 308 pounds of sugar are packaged into boxes each containing pounds of sugar. Each box is then sold for $1.73. How much money is made from selling all the sugar (in dollars)? Round your answer to the nearest cent.