Purchase & Sale Problems ( Week 22 Practice)
1. How much (in dollars) do 10 pieces of chocolate cost if 100 pieces cost $30? 2. Susan can buy a dozen candy bars for 72 cents. If she spends $14.4 on the candy bars and sells them for a total of $24, how much will she charge (in cents) for each candy bar? 3. Martha spent $6.48 on the pencils and sold them for a total of $17.28. If 12 pencils cost $0.72 when being bought, how much did she charge (in cents) for each pencil when she sold it? 4. A shipping company charges $2.3 for a package that weighs under 5 pounds. It charges 45 cents for each additional pound over 5 pounds. How much (in dollars) will it cost to ship a 62 pound package? 5. 182 pounds of sugar are packaged into boxes each containing pounds of sugar. Each box is then sold for $1.96. How much money is made from selling all the sugar (in dollars)? Round your answer to the nearest cent.