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Sheet # 518 Daily Warm-ups

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Sally, Pat, and Bea are sharing one 1 meter long piece of red licorice. Sally gets 1/2 of the licorice string, Pat gets 30 cm of the licorice string, and Bea gets the rest of the licorice string.

a) How many centimeters of the licorice string do Sally and Bea each get?






b) What fraction of the total licorice string does Bea get? What percent of the licorice string is this?






c) The licorice string cost $1.20 without tax. There is a 5% sales tax added to the cost of the price of the licorice. How much does each person pay for their part of the 1 meter string of licorice?

























































Answers for sheet # 518

a) Sally = 50 cm

Bea = 20 cm


b) 20/100 = 1/5

20%


c) Sales tax = 6 cents

Total = $1.26

Sally pays half = $0.63

Bea = $0.25

Pat = $0.38