Total cost of 2 items
for 2nd grade
Use addition to find out how much the 2 items cost in total
Total cost of 2 items
Learn how to add money costs with this topic
When you buy things you need to know how much it will cost you so that you know if you have enough money to pay for them. So we use addition to calculate the TOTAL cost by adding up each item cost. Adding money is similar to adding any other numbers in math except that if the 2 numbers together add up to more than one dollar then we need to deal with both dollars and cents.
Sometimes we are just adding cents: Say we have 2 things that cost 12 cents each. To know the total cost, we simply add the 12 cents twice to get 24 cents. If the 2 items cost different amounts, we can still add up those 2 amounts to get a total cost. For example,
37¢ + 24¢ = 61¢.
When the total goes over one dollar, we need to get an answer in both dollars and cents. So if we add 75 cents and 75 cents, we have a total of 150 cents but we know that 100 cents is 1 dollar, so we have 1 dollar and a remainder of 50 cents. So the sum with answer is
75¢ + 75¢ = $1.50¢.
Below is a table showing the first 5 question answer pairs for the topic "Total cost of 2 items" as used in the lessons for this topic. Our games and tests for the topic use these 5 items plus 9 additional question answer pairs.
The topic "Total cost of 2 items" is in the category Addition for 2nd grade (ages 7 to 8).
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