Decimal Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Mix Up
100
Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 4 of a certain compact disk had songs with lengths of 3.14 minutes, 4.21 minutes, 4 minutes, and 2.5 minutes. How many minutes of music were on tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 altogether?
What is 13.85 minutes
100
The Pinnacle Tower Building has 12 floors. There are 22 offices on each floor. How many offices are in the Pinnacle Tower Building altogether?
What is 264 offices
100
A landowner had 239 trees to be cut for timber and placed equally on 6 different trucks. What is the BEST estimate of the number of trees on each truck?
What is 40 trees on each truck
100
A newspaper reported that the average house size was 1549.826 square feet. What digit is in the hundredths place in 1549.826?
What is the digit 2
200
The table below shows Juanita's running time for five 50-yard races. Race ----Time (in seconds) 1 --------11.9 2 --------9.7 3 --------8.8 4 --------10.2 5 --------11.6 What was Juanita's total time for the five races?
What is 52.2 seconds
200
Allison and Brenda were working together to paint a rectangular wall in the living room of a house. Allison determined the area to be painted by multiplying four times the length of one side, or 4 × s. Brenda determined the area to be painted by multiplying the length of the wall by the width of the wall, or l × w. Who is correct in determining the area of the wall? *Explain why one girl is correct and the other is mistaken
Brenda is correct, because the formula for finding the area of a rectangle is l x w. According to Allison, it is 4 x s, but that would give us the perimeter of the wall, not the area.
200
Irma’s family went to the zoo. They bought a package of food to feed the animals. The package contained 54 little food pieces. Irma wants to feed 7 animals. Irma wants to figure out about how many pieces she can give to each animal using compatible numbers. What would be one way she could figure it out?
What is thinking that 54 is about 56 and then divide by 7
200
Look at the following list of numbers. Order them from least to greatest. 0.73, 0.731, 0.65, 0.67, 0.069
What is 0.069, 0.65, 0.67, 0.73, 0.731
300
Mike’s family went on a trip. The distances they drove each day are shown below. Monday-49.4 miles Tuesday-78.6 miles Wednesday-87.8 miles Thursday-71.3 miles About how far did Mike’s family drive altogether on their trip?
What is about 290 miles
300
The band room at June's school is rectangular and has an area of 1200 square feet. The length of the room is 40 feet. What is the width of the room?
What is 30 feet
300
There are 181 people planning to attend a charity breakfast. If each table can seat 8 people, what is the minimum number of tables needed for the breakfast?
What is 23 tables
300
Adam is 4.5 feet tall. He is 0.75 foot taller than his brother Mark. How tall is Mark?
What is 3.75 feet
400
Ramon had eight dollars and fifty seven cents. For lunch he bought a drink for $1.06 and a cheeseburger for $2.77. How much money did he have left?
What is $4.74
400
A parking lot was being designed to surround a football stadium. The parking lot needed to hold 10,000 cars. If each row of the parking lot held the same number of cars, which could be the number of rows and the number of parking spaces in each row? A 20 rows with 50 parking spaces in each row B 50 rows with 200 parking spaces in each row C 100 rows with 10 parking spaces in each row D 1,000 rows with 100 parking spaces in each row
What is B
400
Darius is driving to his grandparents’ house. It is 680 miles. If his car can go 24 miles on one gallon of gas, how many gallons will he need to go the total distance to his grandparents’ house?
What is 29 gallons
400
Speed in miles per hour (mph) can be converted to speed in kilometers per hour (kmh) by multiplying the speed in mph by one and six hundred nine thousandths. How is this value written in decimal form?
What is 1.609
500
Emily's mom wanted to fence in her kitchen garden. She bought 62.345 meters of fence. After completing her project, how many meters of fence did Emily's mom have left over?
What is 10.141 meters
500
Mr. Cantú will put 1 flag on each table in the cafeteria for a school event. The cafeteria has 15 rows with 5 tables in each row and 12 rows with 4 tables in each row. Mr. Cantú already has 94 flags. How many more flags does he need to buy? A 48 B 19 C 27 D 29
What is D
500
An employee at a video store worked a total of 90 hours in 3 weeks. She worked 5 days a week. If she worked the same number of hours a day, how many hours did the employee work each day?
What is 6 hours per day
500
Use these digits: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Jennifer made a seven-digit number with four whole number places and three decimal places. She used a 2 in the thousands place, 4 in the tens place, 6 in the tenths place, and 8 in the thousandths place. A. If Jennifer wants to make the largest number possible as she places the remaining digits, what is the number that she forms?
What is 2,745.638
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