Multiplying Madness
Difficult Division
Customary Questions
Customary Conversion
Potpourri
100
Each students need 3/4 lbs of sand for an experiment. About how much sand is needed for 21 students?
What is 15 lbs?
100
The mall is 15 miles from your house. You drive there in 1/3 hour. What is your average rate of travel in miles per hour?
What is 45 mph?
100
Does a banana weigh less or more than 2 lbs?
What is less?
100
4500 lb to tons
What is 2 1/4T
100
Solve: 1/4 + 3/4 * 1/2 - 3/16
What is 7/16?
200
How many minutes are in 2/3 of an hour?
What is 40 minutes?
200
It takes 9/16 pounds of clay to make a tea cup. How many teacups can you make with 4 pounds of clay?
What is 7?
200
Name all the customary units of weight.
What is ounce, pound, ton?
200
3 lb 7 oz to ounces
What is 55 oz?
200
A trail mix recipe calls for: 3 1/4 c of granola 2 c of nuts 1 1/2 c of raisins How many cups of trail mix does this recipe make?
What is 6 3/4c?
300
A recipe for homemade paste calls for 1/3 cup of flour. How much flour is required to make 1/2 of the recipe?
What is 1/6 c?
300
You want to make 3 curtains from 2 1/3 yard piece of material. How much material will you have for each curtain?
What is 7/9 yd?
300
Name all of the customary units of capacity that we learned about.
What is fluid ounce, cup, pint, quart, gallon?
300
Hank Aaron hit a record 755 home runs in his career. The distance around a baseball diamond is 360 ft. About how many miles did Aaron run after hitting home runs?
What is 51 miles?
300
Nicole is planning a party. She invites 24 guests. She wants to serve at least 2 cups of fruit punch to each guest. She plans to fill a 3 1/2 gallon punch bowl. Will she have enough punch for her guests? Explain (how many cups does she need, and how many does she have).
Yes, she needs 48 cups and the punch bowl is 56 cups.
400
What is the area of a square with a length of 2 1/2m and a width of 3/4m?
What is 1 7/8 square meters?
400
During a 5 hour snowstorm, it snows 6 1/2 inches in the first 2 hours and 4 inches in the last 3 hours. What is the average rate of snowfall in inches per hour, for the entire snowstorm?
What is 2 1/10 in/h?
400
The amount of water you can hold in the palm of your had ins 3/4 of what unit?
What is fluid ounce?
400
About 6 gallons of ice cream and related frozen desserts are eaten per person per year in the United States. About how many fluid ounces per person per day is that? Round to the nearest fluid ounce.
What is 2 fl oz?
400
The area of a rectangle is 64 1/6 ft. What is the width of the rectangle in inches, if the height is 12 5/16ft?
What is 60in?
500
A recipe makes 12 muffins. Your pan will hold a total of 18 muffins. Will your pan hold 1 1/2 times the recipe?
Yes, exactly.
500
A screening room at a movie theater is open from 12:30 p.m to 1:00 a.m. The length of each movie is 2 1/4 hours How many movies can be shown on the screen during one day?
What is 5?
500
To serve each of 20 campers an 8-ounce glass of milk, a counselor used all of two containers of milk. What were the capacities of the containers?
What is 1 gal and 1 qt
500
How many feet per second are you moving in a car that is traveling at 60 miles per hour?
What is 88 ft per sec?
500
A movie poster is about 2 1/2 ft wide. The width of a wall in your bedroom is 14 feet. If you put poster all along the wall in a row (without overlapping), and each posters costs $12. How much will you spend on the posters?
What is $60?
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