Word Problems
Ellen is making special bookmarks for a book fair. Each bookmark costs $3.60 to produce. Maria has $34 to spend on making bookmarks and wants to make 10 bookmarks for the event. Will Maria have enough money to make the bookmarks?
No, Maria does not have enough money to spend for 10 bookmarks. She is 2 dollars short.
Sasha is buying candy for a party. Sally is buying 5.2 pounds of jellybeans for $3.92 per pound. About how much money will Sally spend on jellybeans?
a) between $13 and $15 b) between $8 and $10 c) between $23 and $25 d) between $19 and $21
D. between 19 and 21 (20.384)
Lee is organizing a science fair and needs to distribute 9.765 ounces of a special solution equally into 8 beakers for the experiment. How many ounces of the solution will each beaker contain?
1.220 ounces
Eileen is baking cookies for a school bake sale. Each batch of cookies requires 0.50 cups of flour. If she wants to bake 3.5 batches of cookies, how many cups of flour will she need in total?
1.75 cups of flour
A teacher is observing the growth of a plant over several weeks. After the first week, the height of the plant is 1.7 inches. By the end of the second week, the height increases to 2.3 inches. In the third week, the height reaches 2.9 inches, and by the fourth week, it measures 3.5 inches. What is the pattern in the plant's growth, and what will the height be at the end of the sixth week?
A. It is increasing by 0.6 and will be 4.4 by the end of the sixth week.
B. It is decreasing by 0.6 and will be 2.3 by the end of sixth week
A. It is increasing by 0.6 and will be 4.4 by the end of sixth week.
A pattern is shown here: 1.70, 2.00, 2.300, __, __. What are the next two terms in the pattern?
A. 2.40 and 2.50
B. 2.600 and 2.900
C. 2.500 and 2.700