Money Calculations (CIE IGCSE Maths: Core)

A café sells the following drinks.

Johan buys 2 cups of tea, 1 bottle of juice and 1 bottle of water.

Calculate the change he receives from a $10 note.

$ ................................................. 

Complete this bill.

A shop sells bags of compost in three different sizes.

Work out which size of bag gives the best value.
Show how you decide.

Jeremy goes on holiday.
He parks his car in the airport car park from

1000 on Tuesday 17 July to 1700 on Saturday 28 July.

The car park charges are shown below.

Find the total cost of parking his car.

$ ................................................. 

At the airport, Jeremy buys a ring for $53 and a watch for $65.

Work out how much change he receives from $120.

$ ................................................. 

Jodie and her two children go to a football match.

Nadira pays 6 people to work in the shop.

In one week

• 4 people each work for 38 hours
• 2 people each work for 25 hours.

They are each paid $11.40 for each hour they work.

Calculate the total amount Nadira pays these 6 people in one week.

$ ................................................... 

Harriet works at the café for 34 hours each week.
She is paid $8.25 for each hour.

Mr Lester has a fruit and vegetable shop.

Apples cost 32 cents each.
Suki buys 6 apples.

Work out the change Mr Lester gives Suki when she pays with a $10 note.

$ ...................................................

Green grapes cost $3.10 per kilogram.
Red grapes cost $2.80 per kilogram.
Work out the total cost of buying 0.6kg of green grapes and  kg of red grapes.

$ ...................................................

George spends $12 on fruit each week.
The total amount he spends on food is $75.

Work out the percentage of the $75 he spends on fruit.

.................................................%

Mr Lester buys pineapples for $1.50 each.
He makes 60% profit when he sells them.

Work out the selling price of a pineapple.

$ ...................................................

Saddak buys 3 cups of tea and 2 cookies for .
A cup of tea costs .

Work out the cost of one cookie.

........................

One Monday afternoon, a cinema sells 24 adult tickets, 16 child tickets and 8 senior tickets.

Work out the total amount of money received for these tickets.

$ ........................... 

In the cinema café, Harry buys a cup of tea for $1.85 and a cake for $1.70 .

Work out the change he receives from a $5 note.

$ ....................................

Stef buys 3.5 kilograms of bananas.

Oranges cost 85 cents each.
Leo has a $10 note.

Work out the maximum number of oranges he can buy.

While Georgiana waits for her train, she buys a cup of hot chocolate.

Work out which cup of hot chocolate is the best value.
Show all your working.

The cost of hiring a car for 12 days is $167.90 .
The cost of hiring this car for the first day is $20.50.

Work out the cost per day for the remaining 11 days.

$ .................................

Rangan buys 3.6 kg of potatoes and 2.8kg of leeks.
The total cost is $13.72.
Leeks cost $2.65 per kilogram.

Find the cost of 1 kg of potatoes.

$.................................

A fuel tank holds 52 litres when full.
The tank is a quarter full.
Jim fills the tank with fuel that costs $2.18 per litre.

Work out how much Jim pays.

$ .................................................

Navja works in a post office.

The table shows the costs of sending parcels by post.
The cost depends on the mass, m grams, of the parcel.

Type of parcel	Mass (g)	Cost ($)
Small		0.76
Medium		0.95
Large		2.20
Extra large		5.60

Sai sends each of these four parcels by post.

He pays with a $20 note.

Work out how much change he receives.

$ ................................................. [4]

On 1 April, the cost of sending any parcel increases by 5%.

“As the cost of an Extra large parcel increases by $0.28 then the cost of a Large parcel will also increase by $0.28 to $2.48.”

Explain why Avani is incorrect.

[1]

Pranav paints a wall of area 53m².
One litre of paint covers an area of 4.5m².
Paint is sold in 2.5 litre tins, each costing $24.75 .
Pranav buys the least number of tins to paint this wall.

Work out the cost of the paint.

$ .................................................

Mr Razif travels by bus from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur with his wife and his four children.

Work out how much Mr Razif saves if he buys a family ticket and one child ticket rather than six individual tickets.

$ ............................

The bus leaves Singapore at 1240 and arrives in Kuala Lumpur at 1735.

Work out, in hours and minutes, the time this journey takes.

.................... h ...................min

Mr Razif changes some dollars into Malaysian ringgits.
He receives 318 ringgits when the exchange rate is  ringgits.

Work out how many dollars he changes.

$ .............................

The cost of each visit to the car park is shown in the table.

$ ................................ [1]

[1]

$ ............................... [1]

Work out how much he saved by buying a weekly ticket.

$ .................................. [3]

Mr and Mrs Baker go on holiday with their three children.
They fly from Miami to Mexico City.

$ ................................. [3]

[2]

$ ................................. [2]

$ ................................ [2]

The table shows the cost of tickets for a museum.

The Reeve family visit the museum.
Mrs Reeve is aged 36, her father is 67, her mother is 65, and her three children are 2, 7 and 12.

Work out the total cost for these six people to visit the museum.

$ ..........................

Mrs Reeve buys 6 ice creams.
Each ice cream costs $1.30 .

How much change does she receive from $10?

$ ...............................