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6. Juanita earns R4 756 per month. Latifa earns R1 297 more
than Juanita per month.

(a) How much does Latifa earn?

(b) How much will Juanita have left over if she pays R1 300 for
her rent?
(c) How much will Latifa have left over after she pays R230 for
her TV licence, R2 400 for rent and R489 for life insurance?

7. A tank can hold 5 000 ℓ of water. At the beginning of the rainy
season, it contains 1 457 ml of water. How much more water
does the tank need to be full?

8. Bongi has 1 286 pear trees on his farm. Josh has 2 745 pear
trees on his farm. How many more pear trees than Bongi does
Josh have?

9. Red Ribbon Bakery delivers 1 856 loaves of bread daily
and Tangwa Bakery delivers 2 774 loaves daily. What is the
difference between the numbers of loaves delivered daily by
the two bakeries?
10. A road grader scraped 1 254 m of a gravel road on Tuesday.
On Wednesday the grader worked 1 898 m of the road and on
Thursday 1 424 m.

(a) How much of the road was scraped altogether?

(b) How much more of the road was scraped on Tuesday and
Thursday together than on Wednesday?

11. Hannah bought a new sewing machine for R5 628 and a new
tumble dryer for R3 509.
(a) How much did she spend altogether?

(b) How much more did she spend on the sewing machine
than on the tumble dryer?

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