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100
What equation would you use to solve the following problem: Moe has three times as many dog biscuits as Riley. Riley has eight biscuits. How many biscuits does Moe have? You must use a variable in your equation. Remember you do not have to solve it, just show how you would solve it.
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100
Write 812,201 in expanded form.
800,000 + 10,000 + 2,000 + 200 + 1
100
Round the number 623,183,429 to the nearest ten thousand.
632,180,000
100
What is 800,000 - 123,195?
676,805
100
A ceiling fan can turn 2 times each second. How many times with the ceiling fan rotate in 1 minute?
120
200
Jack has 82 trains. If he can place 8 on each shelf, how many shelves will he need in order to put all of his trains on
11 shelves
200
Ana said that her number was 800,000 + 7,000 + 600 +3. What is her number in standard form?
807,603
200
Cole and Jazmin each collected seashells. Cole collected 172 seashells. Jazmin collected 149 seashells. Rounded to the nearest ten, how many seashells did they both collect?
320 seashells
200
What is the sum of 1,203,402 and 34,281? Write your answer is written form.
1,237,683 One million, two hundred thirty-seven thousand, six hundred eighty-three
200
Jackson had 15 crayons in his desk. AJ has 5 times less pencils in his desk. How many pencils does AJ have?
3 pencils
300
Mason wanted to buy an iPad mini. Unfortunately, he only has $50. How many times more money will he need if the iPad mini costs $300?
6 times as much
300
What place value would help you decide if 922,301,384 is equal, greater to, or less than 922,310,849?
Ten thousands place
300
Izzy and Alex counted the books in the classroom (including the ones Miss Scordino keeps in her closet) and found that she had around 1,200 books. Write three possible numbers that could be the exact number of books Miss Scordino has.
Allow any answer that would round to 1,200
300
Maria was solving the equation: 12,356 + 18,232. She came up with the answer 20,588. Is she correct? If not, explain what mistake she made.
Maria is incorrect. She did not regroup the 10 thousands into 1 ten thousand.
300
Miss Scordino's class spends 120 minutes each day working on English Language Arts assignments. They spend three times less than that at recess. How long is recess?
40 minutes
400
Mrs. Jansen is buying new books for the library. She is going to buy 36 books each month. How many months will it take her before she has added 150 new books to the library?
5 weeks
400
Paul said he was thinking of a number. He said that his number had 2 thousands, 34 hundreds, and 118 ones. What number was Paul thinking of if it was put into standard form?
5,518
400
Violet and Bentley were given the number 32,485. Violet says it is about 32,000. Bentley says it is about 32,500. Who is correct? Explain your answer.
Both are correct. Violet rounded it to the nearest thousand. Bentley rounded it to the nearest hundred.
400
Seventy-three thousand, three hundred forty-nine people watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone this weekend. Thirty-two thousand, one hundred fifty-five people watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. How many more people watched the Sorcerer's Stone movie compared to the Chamber of Secrets movie?
41,194
400
Spencer, Leilany, and Vanesa were cleaning up pencils left on the ground in classrooms around the school. Spencer collected 32 pencils. Leilany collected 10 more than Spencer. Vanesa was able to collect 25 pencils. Rounded to the nearest ten, how many pencils did the girls collect?
100 pencils
500
Syeni and Ryan are working on their science project. They decided they to buy 6 boxes of Legos. Each box has 25 pieces in it. If they need to split the boxes equally with their three other partners, how many will each person get?
30 Legos
500
Rhodes came up with a number that has 32 hundreds, 15 tens, and 12 ones. Alejandro said his number, three thousand four hundred was less than Rhodes' number. Was he correct?
No, Rhodes' number has a value of 3,362 which is less than Alejandro's number with a value of 3,400.
500
Bradley Creek was collecting socks for Socktober. The school collected 5 boxes of 35 pairs of socks per box. Rounded to the nearest ten, how many pairs of socks did the school collect?
180 pairs of socks
500
Miss Scordino is allotted 2,500 pieces of paper each month. On the first of the month she used 349 pieces of paper. She used 1,283 pieces of paper on the last day of the month. If she had 172 pieces of paper left, how many pieces of paper did she use during the 2nd-last day of the month?
696 pieces of paper
500
Graham and Anthony are packing boxes of canned food to take to a food shelter. They can put 9 cans of food in each small box. There are a total of 134 cans of food. How many boxes will be needed to pack all of the food?
15 boxes
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