Word problems about change

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Two items costing $3.86 and $2.50 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
2
Two items costing $1.36 and $1.35 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
3
Two items costing $3.94 and $3.87 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
4
Two items costing $1.96 and $1.75 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
5
Two items costing $3.17 and $3.57 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
6
Two items costing $1.65 and $2.69 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
7
Two items costing $3.99 and $1.33 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
8
Two items costing $1.07 and $2.18 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
9
Two items costing $2.95 and $2.20 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
10
Two items costing $2.64 and $2.00 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
11
Two items costing $1.13 and $1.50 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
12
Two items costing $3.13 and $3.81 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
13
Two items costing $1.72 and $3.41 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
14
Two items costing $2.43 and $3.63 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
15
Two items costing $2.01 and $1.43 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
16
Two items costing $1.91 and $1.52 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
17
Two items costing $2.76 and $1.98 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
18
Two items costing $3.04 and $2.86 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
19
Two items costing $3.83 and $1.17 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?
20
Two items costing $2.47 and $3.53 are paid for with a $10 bill. How much change is there, in dollars?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1.05 to 10.
Every problem in it will take two steps.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: only the first item was taken off the 10 dollars.
Answers are an amount with two decimal places.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 240 different ones, 100% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.