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Lesson 1 - Money Word Problems

The document appears to be a set of math word problems related to shopping in the fictional world of Harry Potter. It includes 4 sections with increasing levels of difficulty (bronze, silver, gold, platinum) and focuses on calculating totals, making change, and determining missing information from spending amounts. The problems involve common items from the world like galleons, sickles, knuts, chocolate frogs, wands, broomsticks and more.

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Lesson 1 - Money Word Problems

The document appears to be a set of math word problems related to shopping in the fictional world of Harry Potter. It includes 4 sections with increasing levels of difficulty (bronze, silver, gold, platinum) and focuses on calculating totals, making change, and determining missing information from spending amounts. The problems involve common items from the world like galleons, sickles, knuts, chocolate frogs, wands, broomsticks and more.

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Bronze

£4.98 £28.19 £7.02 £11.79

£54.27 £23.45 £29.99 £42.05

1. Hagrid goes shopping down Diagon Alley and buys a sorting hat and a golden snitch. How much
money does he spend?

2. Professor Dumbledore purchases an invisibility cloak and a house elf. How much does he spend in
total?

3. Harry goes to the pet shop and buys an owl and a cage. He then goes and buys a new wand. How
much money does Harry spend?

4. Ron buys a new broomstick and a sorting hat.


Hermione buys 2 golden snitches and an invisibility cloak.
Who spends the most money?
What do they spend altogether between them?
Silver
Acid Pops Bertie Botts Beans Chocolate Frogs Pumpkin Pasties

£10.62 £8.79 £6.49 £4.76

Sherbet Lemons Treacle Tart Butter Beer Pumpkin Juice

78p £2.07 £7.81 £1.34

1. Professor Snape goes into the shop and buys 2 bottles of pumpkin juice and some sherbet lemons. He
pays with £10. How much change does he get?

2. Hermione buys 2 chocolate frogs and a slice of treacle tart. How much change does she get from £20?

3. Ron goes to Diagon Alley and buys a box of Bertie Botts beans, a jar of acid pops and 2 butter beers.
How much change does he receive from £50.

4. Malfoy buys 2 bowls of pumpkin pasties and a jar of acid pops.


Goyle buys a butter beer, 2 bottles of pumpkin juice and a box of Bertie Botts beans.
They both pay with £25. Who gets the most change?
Gold

Philosopher’s Stone Sneakoscope Quidditch Ball Diary

£23.09 £4.56 £6.27 £3.90

Locket Sorting Hat Goblet of Fire Cauldron

£12.85 £5.97 £8.19 £19.84

Hermione buys a philosopher’s stone, a cauldron and a sneakoscope.


Harry buys a locket, 2 goblets of fire and a cauldron.
They both pay with £50. Who gets the most change?

The following wizards have all been on a shopping trip and have lost 1 item each! Find their missing items.

1. Fred Weasley bought a sorting hat, a quidditch ball and one other item. He paid with £20 and received
£3.86 change. Which item is missing?

2. Hagrid bought a sneakoscope, a goblet of fire and one other item. He paid with £25 and got £5.98
change. Which item did he lose?

3. Professor Dumbledore bought a cauldron, a locket and one other item. He paid with £50 and got £9.12
change. Which item is missing?

Platinum

Harry goes into a sweet shop with 100 sickles to spend.

There were peppermint toads for 20 sickles, jelly slugs for 30 sickles, fizzing whizzbees for 50 sickles and
cockroach clusters for70 sickles.

Peppermint toads Jelly slugs Fizzing whizzbees Cockroach clusters


20 sickles 30 sickles 50 sickles 70 sickles

What could he buy if he wanted to spend all of his money?

Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Hagrid went into the shop too. They each had 200 sickles to spend.

Ginny bought at least 1 of each kind of sweet and received 10 sickles change. Which sweet did she have two of?

Ron bought at least one kind of sweet, but he does not like peppermint toads. He received no change. Which sweets
did he buy?

Hermione bought the same number of sweets as Ron but she had 3 different kinds. Which sweets did she buy if she
received 60 sickles change?

Hagrid chose 8 sweets. What could he have bought?

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