Sheet # 6/The Winter Olympics
Name: _____________________ Date_____________
Explain and Show Your Work.
The United States Mint will start selling gold and silver coins commemorating the Salt Lake Games on January 21st. It will sell 80,000 gold $5 coins and 400,000 silver dollar coins.
1) How many coins will be sold in all?
2) If each gold coin costs $5 and each silver coin costs $1, how much money will you need to buy 80,000 gold coins and 400,000 silver coins?
Answers for sheet # 6
1) 480,000 coins
2) 80,000 x $5 = $400,000
400,000 x $1 = $400,000
Total = 400,000 + 400,000 = $800,000