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100
I am the number of pints in 3 gallons. Cheat: 1 gallon = 8 pints
What is 24 pints?
100
I am the volume of a rectangular prism with a height of 10 feet, a width of 6 feet, and a length of 12 feet.
What is 720 feet cubed?
100
A teacher surveyed her students to see how much each one's lunch box weighed. 3 children said theirs each weighed 3/8 of a pound. 2 children said theirs each weighed 5/8 of a pound each. This is the weight of all 5 lunchboxes.
What is 2 3/8 pounds?
100
1/3 a yard. = _______ inches 
12
100

Mrs. Turner is doing a science project with her class. She needs 2/3  cups of dirt for each student. She has 30 students in her class. How many cups of dirt does she need?

20 cups 
200
I am the number of inches in 15 feet.
What is 180 inches?
200
I am the volume of a jewelry box with dimensions of 9 inches, 12 inches, and 6 inche
What is 648 inches cubed?
200
These are the lengths, in inches, of 8 different bugs: 1/8, 2/8, 6/8, 1/8, 1/8, 3/8, 7/8, 2/8 This is the difference between the longest bug and the shortest.
What is 6/8 of an inch?
200
Jared  watching his sugar intake. He saw his breakfast cereal had 2.5 cups of sugar per serving, his orange juice had 1 pint of sugar per serving, and his yogurt had 1/2 cup of sugar per serving. How man y cups of sugar is Jared having for breakfast? 
5 cups 
200
This is the answer to 2 divided by 1/13.
What is 26?
300
Sammy bought 2 gallons of Pepsi. If he filled 8 jugs equally with the Pepsi, this is the number of quarts in each jug. 
What is 1 quarts
300
This is the volume of a rectangular prism with a base are of 68 square centimeters and a height of 16 centimeters.
What is 1,088 centimeters cubed?
300
These are the lengths, in inches, of 8 different bugs: 1/8, 2/8, 6/8, 1/8, 1/8, 3/8, 7/8, 2/8 Create a line plot recording these bugs' lengths.
What is (See line plots.)
300
Jerome built a rectangular prism with cubes. He used 6 layers of 12 cubes to build the prism. Wha is the volume of the prism? 
72 
300
Joe's dad packaged deer meat in boxes that measured 12 inches by 18 inches by 7 inches. He put them in a freezer that had a volume of 9,072 inches cubed. This is the number of boxes that would fit in the freezer.
What is 6 boxes?
400
John leaves school at 2:30 each afternoon. By the time he gets home and finishes his homework it is 4:15 pm. This is the number of minutes John spends traveling home and doing his homework.
What is 105 minutes?
400
A bakery packs their cookies, individually, in boxes that measure 2 inches by 4 inches by 1 in. It ships these cookies in larger shipping boxes that measure 12 inches by 8 inches by 4 inches. This is the number of individual cookie boxes that fit in each larger box.
What is 48 smaller boxes?
400
These are the lengths, in inches, of 10 different seashells: 1/8, 1/4, 6/8, 1/8, 1/8, 3/8, 7/8, 1/4, 3/4, 1/2 Create a line plot and plot the 10 seashells' lengths.
What is (See line plot.)
400
Hailey baked a cake that had a base area of 96 inches squared. The height of the cake was 1.5 feet. What is the volume of the cake? 
12 ft cubed


or 

144 inches squared

400
The volume of a gift box is 21,000 cm. cubed. The length of the box is 70 cms., and the width is 5 cms. The height is _____________ cm.
What is 60 cms.?
500
The kids are asked to carry all the supplies for the camping trip. 


Karen's backpack weighs 10 pounds and 4 ounces.

Mik's backpack weighs 6.5 pounds  

The kids decided to distribute the weight in their backpacks so each person carries an equal weight on the trip. How much should each backpack weigh

8 pounds 6 ounces 

or 

133 ounces 

or 

8 6/16 pounds 

500
Mrs. Scott filled her garden box halfway with soil. Her garden box measured 5 feet long by 3 feet wide by 4 feet high. This is the volume of soil she used to fill the box halfway.
What is 30 cubic feet?
500
These are the lengths, in inches, of 10 different seashells: 1/8, 1/4, 6/8, 1/8, 1/8, 3/8, 7/8, 1/4, 3/4, 1/2 Mary said there are 6 shells less than 1/2 inch long and 3 greater than 1/2 in long. Is she correct? Explain.
What is yes, she is correct. There are 6 shells less than 1/2 inch, 3 greater than 1/2 inch, and 1 exactly 1/2 inch long.
500
Steve built a sandbox for his nephew. The dimensions of the sandbox were 7 feet by 6 feet by 2 feet. He bought sand bags to fill the box. Each bag contains 3 cubic feet of sand. How many bags will Steve need to fill the box? 
14 bags
500
The base of a 3 dimensional prism is 36 square inches. These are 3 possible pairs of numbers that could be the length and width of this prism.
What is 9 inches and 4 inches? What is 6 inches and 6 inches? What is 36 inches and 1 inch? What is 18 inches and 2 inches? What is 12 inches and 3 inches?
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