Lesson 5-1
The city of Seattle has 1,241 law enforcement officers in the police department. If the officers are divided into groups of 18, ABOUT how many officers will be in each group?
A. About 30
B. About 60
C. About 130
D. About 700
B. About 60
The total cost to rent a lodge for a reunion is $1,275. If 85 people attend, and they share the rental cost equally, how much will each person pay?
$15
The table shows how many employees are going to the conference. If 27 employees can sit in each row of chairs, how many rows of chairs will they need?
Accounting = 521
Marketing = 536
Central Office = 172
A. 20
B. 27
C. 45
D. 46
D. 46
Kimberly scored a total of 35.12 points in four events at a gymnastics competition. She was awarded the same score for each event. How many points was Kimberly awarded for each event?
8.78 points
What is the quotient of 1.61 / 2.3?
A. 0.8
B. 0.7
C. 0.08
D. 0.07
B. 0.7
Which of the following is the best way to estimate 4,875 / 67 with compatible numbers?
A. 4,800 divided by 70
B. 4,850 divided by 60
C. 4,900 divided by 60
D. 4,900 divided by 70
D. 4,900 divided by 70
Mary is putting 7,305 apples into boxes for shipping. Each box can hold 96 apples. How many boxes of apples can she fill? How many apples will be left over?
76 boxes and 9 apples left over
Bubba's Toy Shop has bags of 32 marbles each on the sale shelf and a bucket of single marbles by the cash register. If there are 1,254 marbles altogether, what is the greatest number of bags of marbles that could be on the sale shelf?
A. 6
B. 38
C. 39
D. 40
C. 39
A construction crew paves 1,147.5 miles of road in 54 days. The same number of miles of road are paved each day. How many miles are paved in a day?
21.25 miles
Russ has a car that averages 9.8 miles per gallon while Mike's car averages 39.2 miles per gallon. How many times more miles per gallon does Mike's car get than Russ's car?
A. 4.1
B. 4
C. 3.5
D. 3
B. 4
Alberto saves $30 each week. How many weeks will he need to save to buy an item that costs $2,484? Explain: Did you use rounding or compatible numbers when estimate?
About 80 weeks. Estimates using compatible numbers 2,400 / 30 = 80.
There are 120 minutes in 2 hours. How many minutes are there in 15 hours?
900 minutes
There are 1,422 possible words that can be used for the spelling bee. This number is 18 times more than will be used in the contest. How many words will be used in the contest?
A. 7.9 words
B. 79 words
C. 709 words
D. 790 words
B. 79 words
Mina's yard is a rectangle with an area of 3,162.6 square feet. If her yard is 42 feet long, how many feet wide is Mina's yard?
75.3 feet
What is 0.486 / 5.4 =
A. 0.011
B. 0.09
C. 0.11
D. 0.9
B. 0.09
A neighborhood collects $8,205 from families to build a swimming pool. Every family pays $88. Which of the following is the best estimate of the number of families in the neighborhood?
A. About 80 families
B. About 90 families
C. About 800 families
D. About 900 families
B. About 90 families
An outdoor concert company is putting on 12 concerts this summer. Each concert sold out. The company sold a total of 1,140 seats. How many people will attend each performance?
A. 9
B. 89
C. 94
D. 95
D. 95
There are 12 inches in 1 foot. How many inches are there in 12 feet?
1,440 inches
A construction company paid $3,792.40 for 76 cases of nails. What is the cost of one case of nails?
$49.90
In 4.5 hours, 11.25 inches of snow fell. Suppose the same amount of snow fell each hour. How much snow fell each hour?
A. 25 inches
B. 6.75 inches
C. 2.5 inches
D. 0.25 inches
C. 2.5 inches
Which of the following is the best way to estimate 5,324 / 98 with compatible numbers?
A. 5,320 divided by 100
B. 5,320 divided by 90
C. 5,300 divided by 100
D. 5,300 divided by 90
C. 5,300 divided by 100
Julia bought a sandwich for $3.50 and a glass of juice for $1.75. The tax was $0.42. She paid with a $10 bill. How much change did she get?
$4.33
Darci wants to buy a computer that costs $1,308. She works at the grocery store where she earns $11 an hour. How many hours will she have to work to earn enough money to purchase the computer?
119 hours
A rectangular soccer field has an area of 6,147.6 square meters. The field is 109 meters long. How wide is the field?
56.4 meters
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo, non-stop flight of approximately 3,610.2 miles across the Atlantic. The flight lasted about 33 hours. About how many miles per hour did he fly?
About 109.4 mph