Math Drills
How Savings Grow
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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, Riley will save 80 dollars each month, and Hannah will save 120 dollars each month. After how many months will the total savings of the 2 people be exactly 800 dollars? Answer □
Answer: 4months later
(2)Liam has 1200 dollars now. If he saves 150 dollars every month starting next month, how many months later will his savings reach 2100 dollars? Answer □
Answer: 6months later
(3)The older sister has 1500 dollars and the younger sister has 500 dollars now. Starting next month, the older sister will save 150 dollars and the younger sister will save 350 dollars every month. After how many months will the savings of the 2 people be the same amount? Answer □
Answer: 5months later
(4)Mia has 2500 dollars now. If 300 dollars is spent every month, in how many months will 400 dollars be left? Answer □
Answer: 7months later
(5)Older brother earns and saves 800 dollars every month from mowing lawns, and younger brother earns and saves 500 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 1500 dollars? Answer □
Answer: 5months
