Word Problems
A librarian taking inventory, counts 428 books on each of six different shelves.
How many books are there on those shelves?
2,568
Thomas wants to plant a hedge of bushes along three sides of his yard. He purchased a total of 48 bushes. He will plant the same number of bushes on each side. Which operation should be used to determine how many bushes he will plant along each side of his yard?
A. addition
B. subtraction
C. multiplication
D. division
D. division
Which number is equal to five hundredths?
A. 0.5 B. 0.50 C. 0.05 D. 0.500
C. 0.05
A state has 49,649 miles of roads.
An adjoining state has 11,420 miles of roads.
How many total miles of roads do the two states have?
61,069 miles of roads
6 ten thousands+3 thousands+6 hundreds+4 tens+8 ones
A. 6348 B. 60,348 C. 63,648
C. 63,648
The school cafeteria served 897 breakfasts in January and 732 breakfasts in February.
How many breakfasts did the cafeteria serve in those two months?
1,629
What is the value of n?
n= 34 x 8
A. 272 B. 282 C. 294 D. 298
A. 272
Which of the following is a pair of equivalent fractions?
A. 8/12 and 1/2 B. 3/9 and 1/3
C. 5/8 and 3/4 D. 8/10 and 3/4
B. 3/9 and 1/3
Which of the following number sentences is true?
A. 423< 4.230 B. 3839>3,938
C. 2698>2,896 D. 4721<4,271
A. 423< 4,230
Robert eats dinner 30 minutes before sunset. Sunset is at 7:45 p.m.. At what time does Robert eat dinner?
7:15 p.m.
Johann was interested in the amount of snow that had fallen so far this year.
The first snowfall left 10.3 cm.
The second left 4.8 cm
The third left 5.1 cm.
What was the total snowfall so far this year?
20.2 cm
Sajid buys a 1 meter long piece of ribbon. He uses 74 centimeters of the ribbon for his craft project.
How many centimeters of ribbon does he have left?
A. 26 B. 28 C. 36 D. 38
A. 26
Which number is equivalent to 17/3 ?
A. 4 1/3 B. 4 2/3 C. 5 2/3 D. 6 1/3
C. 5 2/3
Which of the following number sentences is true?
A. 423< 4.230 B. 3839>3,938
C. 2698>2,896 D. 4721<4,271
C.0.05
We are making flash cards to study for our test. We can make 8 flash cards out of 1 piece of paper. If we divide 24 sheets of paper evenly among our group of 3, how many cards will each of us make?
64 cards
A room is 20 feet long and 16 feet wide. What is the area?
A. 72 square feet B. 160 square feet
C. 320 square feet D. 400 square feet
C. 320 square feet
Which of the following mixed numbers is the same 19/5?
A. 1 9/5 B. 3 4/5 C. 5 9/5 D. 6 9/5
B.3 4/5
What is the place value of 2 in 343.12?
A. tens B. hundreds
C. tenths D. hundredths
D. hundredths
In the 2000 Olympics , Marion Jones of the United States won the Gold Medal for running the 200 meter race in 21.64 seconds. Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas won the Silver Medal. Her time was 22.27 seconds. How much faster did Marion Jones run the race than Pauline Davis-Thompson did?
A. 6.3 seconds B. 1.63 seconds
C. 0.64 seconds D.0.63 seconds
D. 0.63 seconds
A group of 6 children bought 3 dozen pencils together in order to save money. If they divide the 3 dozen equally, how many pencils will each person in the group get?
6 pencils
A wild elephant drinks 8 times as much water per day as a camel drinks per day in summer.
A camel drinks 5 gallons of water daily.
How much water does a wild elephant drink per day?
40 gallons of water
Solve: 16/36 - 1/9 = ______
12/36 or 1/3
Use rounding to estimate the sum. 508+197
A. 600 B.700 C.800 D.900
B.700
Suppose that m stands for the number of CD's in George's collection. George gives Anna 4 CDs. Which of the following expressions shows the number of CDs George has then?
A. m+ 4 B. m - 4 C. m x 4 D. m/4
B. m - 4