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Luke was starving after school yesterday and ate 4 whole pizzas. How many halves did he eat?
8. There are 8 halves in 4 wholes.
It takes Caleb six minutes to get ready for school. It takes Sam four times as long to get ready. How long does it take for Sam to get ready for school?
24 minutes
Annaliese read 5 times as long this week as she did last week. If she read for 110 minutes this week, how long did she read for last week?
22 minutes
The perimeter of a rectangular playground is 46 m. If the length of the park is 7m, what is the width of the park?
Show your work!
The width of the park is 16m.
Senora Howard teaches Spanish for 30 minutes. How many seconds is that?
Show your work.
30 minutes = 1,800 seconds
How many eighths are in 2 and one half?
There are 20/8 in 2 and 1/2
It takes Mrs. Schueckler 54 minutes to read her book. This is 6 times as long as it took Lucy. How long did it take Lucy to read the book?
9 minutes
Tiffany has 20 dice. Renee has twice as many dice than Tiffany. Tiffany borrows all of Renee's dice for a math game. Each student needs 3 dice. How many students will be able to play the game?
20 students will be able to play the game.
Ellie Bs room measures 12 m by 7 m. What is the are of this room?
The area is 84 m square.
Mrs. Murphy had to measure a line that was 4 feet from the door to the gym. How many inches are in 4 feet?
4 feet = 48 inches
Ivy had four friends over. They each ate 3/8 of a pizza. How many whole pizzas will they need?
How much pizza is left over?
They will need 2 whole pizzas. 1/8 of a pizza will be left over.
It takes Colin 6 minutes to eat his lunch. It takes Jack 5 times as long! How long does Jack need to eat his lunch?
30 minutes
A hat is on sale for $15. A pair of shoes cost four times as much. A jacket is half as much as the shoes. If Audrey buys one hat, two pairs of shoes and one jacket, how much will he spend?
Audrey will spend $165.
Mrs. O. wants new carpet for her family room. Her family room is 21 ft by 12 ft. How much carpeting does she need to buy to cover the floor?
252 ft sq.
Mrs. Hiltz displayed the Kindergarten's Ocean scenes in the hallway outside the cafeteria. One mural was 5 meters long! How many centimeters are in 5 meters?
5 m = 500 cm
Burke went fishing. He spent 2/3 of his money for lunch, and 1/6 of his money on worms. How much of his money did he have left?
Burke had 1/6 of his money left.
Ben and Chris went fishing. Ben caught 24 fish. He caught 6 times as many fish as Chris. How many fish did Chris catch?
4
A family sized pizza is $24 and costs three times as much as a small pizza. Aiden buys two family sized pizzas and 3 small pizzas. How much does he spend in all?
Aiden spends $72 on pizza! YUM!!!
Mrs. Levesque is decorating the bulletin board in the lobby. The bulletin board is 7 ft by 11 ft. She decides to add a sparkly border around the entire bulletin board. What is the length of the border she needs?
Show how you calculated this!
Mrs. Levesque needs 36 feet of sparkly border.
Mrs. Turner went to the gym for an hour and 45 minutes for the past 5 days! How long did she go to the gym this past week?
Show your work.
Mrs. Turner spent 8 hours and 45 minutes at the gym!
Ellie noticed that her water bottle was 1/2 full, and Margot's was 3/4 full. Ellie said,"I have more water than you do!" How can this be?
Ellie had a larger water bottle.
This month, Mario saved 6 times as much money as she did last month. If she saved $42 this month, How much did she save last month?
$7
Grace counts 4 times as many black kittens as tan kittens for sale at the pet store. She counts a total of 25 kittens. How many more black kittens does Grace count than tan kittens?
There are 15 more black kittens than tan kittens.
Mrs. Charles has a rectangular flower garden that measures 5 yds long by 12 yds wide. One bag of fertilizer can cover 6 square yds. How many bags will she need to buy to cover the entire garden?
Show your work!
Mrs. Charles will need 10 bags of fertilizer.
While at the gym, Ms. Howard lifted a 15 lb weight! How many ounces are in 15 pounds?
Show your work.
There are 240 ounces in 15 pounds.