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Making Change - Canadian Currency

You are a cashier at a hardware store. Your first customer's change is $56.95

What coins did you use? What bills?

Could you make the same change another way? Explain what bills and coins you could use instead of your previous way of giving back change.

How much did the original item cost? How did you calculate this?

The next customer's change is $22.55.

What coins did you use? What bills? Could you make the same change another way?

What coins did you use? What bills?

How much did you give back to the customer?

You have to count the till after your lunch break.

Count up all the bills. How much money do you have?

Now count up all the change. How much do you have in change?

Add the bills and the change from the two answers before this. How much do you have altogether? Write the amount below.

You should have $124.00 based on the cashier print out but you have more. How much is the till over the amount?