Word problems with money

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1
A kettle costs $4.57 and a toaster costs $2.88. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
2
A kettle costs $3.99 and a toaster costs $2.13. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
3
A ticket costs $1.57 and a programme costs $3.69. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
4
A kettle costs $4.20 and a toaster costs $4.60. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
5
A notebook costs $1.86 and a pen costs $4.78. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
6
A ticket costs $3.33 and a programme costs $4.26. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
7
A notebook costs $4.16 and a pen costs $3.28. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
8
A kettle costs $1.92 and a toaster costs $4.35. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
9
A kettle costs $3.98 and a toaster costs $3.11. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
10
A kettle costs $3.94 and a toaster costs $3.03. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
11
A kettle costs $1.34 and a toaster costs $1.12. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
12
A kettle costs $1.33 and a toaster costs $1.17. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
13
A ticket costs $2.99 and a programme costs $1.93. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
14
A notebook costs $2.41 and a pen costs $3.88. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
15
A ticket costs $1.20 and a programme costs $3.13. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
16
A ticket costs $4.89 and a programme costs $4.75. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
17
A notebook costs $4.80 and a pen costs $4.15. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
18
A ticket costs $2.85 and a programme costs $2.79. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
19
A ticket costs $4.27 and a programme costs $3.36. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?
20
A notebook costs $1.72 and a pen costs $4.47. What do the two of them cost together, in dollars?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1.06 to 4.99.
Every problem in it will take one step.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the two prices were subtracted; "together" asks for them joined into one total.
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 4 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.