Math Drills
How Savings Grow
1Word Problems
What this worksheet covers
Grade 6 (Elementary School) / Various Word Problems / How Savings Grow
Scenes growing or shrinking by the same sum every month are asked about from the side of the number of times, as word problems. The months until two people's savings together reach a target, cases where a sum is held from the start, the Catching Up shape, giving the months until the smaller side draws level, the months until spending leaves a fixed amount, and the months until a gap opens are lined up.
In a question with Starting Savings, an expression gets set up dividing the target sum by the monthly sum as it stands. What piles up each month is the remainder once the starting sum is taken from the target. The figure inside the division being the difference of the two sums of money in the writing means it is right.
In place of the view of regularity that counted cycles, what gets watched here is the pace at which a steady change piles up. What grows turns from a sum of money into the progress of a job with the whole taken as 1, in Work-Rate Problems.
- Savings (Basics)1 question
- Starting Savings1 question
- Catching Up1 question
- Spending Over Time1 question
- The Gap Widens1 question
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Problems and answers on this worksheet
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(1)Starting next month, Alex will save 100 dollars each month, and her older sister will save 200 dollars each month. After how many months will the total savings of the 2 people be exactly 1800 dollars? Answer □
Answer: 6months later
(2)Torin has 500 dollars now. If he saves 300 dollars every month starting next month, how many months later will his savings reach 2600 dollars? Answer □
Answer: 7months later
(3)The older brother has 1200 dollars and the younger brother has 300 dollars now. Starting next month, the older brother will save 100 dollars and the younger brother will save 400 dollars every month. After how many months will the savings of the 2 people be the same amount? Answer □
Answer: 3months later
(4)Lily has 3000 dollars now. If 400 dollars is spent every month, in how many months will 600 dollars be left? Answer □
Answer: 6months later
(5)Older brother earns and saves 500 dollars every month from mowing lawns, and younger brother earns and saves 300 dollars every month from walking dogs. Right now, the 2 brothers both have 0 dollars saved. After how many months will the difference between the 2 brothers' savings be 1200 dollars? Answer □
Answer: 6months
