Purchase & Sale Problems ( Week 22 Practice)
1. How much (in dollars) do 100 pieces of chocolate cost if 1000 pieces cost $300? 2. Alice can buy a dozen candy bars for 36 cents. If she spends $3.6 on the candy bars and sells them for a total of $7.2, how much will she charge (in cents) for each candy bar? 3. Julia spent $5.04 on the pencils and sold them for a total of $9.36. If 12 pencils cost $0.84 when being bought, how much did she charge (in cents) for each pencil when she sold it? 4. A shipping company charges $2.4 for a package that weighs under 3 pounds. It charges 49 cents for each additional pound over 3 pounds. How much (in dollars) will it cost to ship a 20 pound package? 5. 161 pounds of sugar are packaged into boxes each containing pounds of sugar. Each box is then sold for $1.56. How much money is made from selling all the sugar (in dollars)? Round your answer to the nearest cent.