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100

Find the area of a triangle with a base of 12 and a height of 7. 

What is 42?

100

The three ways you can write a ratio.

Words, with a colon (:), and as a fraction.

100

Give an equivalent fraction to .45. 

What is 45/100 or 9/20 or multiple other fractions?

100

Amanda, Beth, and Sarah run three races. In each race, one of them earns 5 points, one of them earns 3 points, and one of them earns 1 point. After the three races Beth has the highest point total. 


Give the smallest total score that Beth can have.

What is 11?

100

The lake is always...

What is east?

200

Draw a triangle with an acute angle.

What is any triangle?!

200

Write the ratio of students to teachers in the room. 

*depends...should be between 13:1 and 21:1
200
The product of 1.23 and .78. 

What is .9594?

200

Jessie has $5.10 worth of stamps. She has equal numbers of 50-cent, 20-cent, 10-cent, and 5-cent stamps. She has no other stamps.


Give the number of 50-cent stamps.

What is 6?

200

The zipcode of Bennett Day School.

What is 60642?

300

The base of an isosceles triangle with a perimeter of 23cm and two sides being 7cm. 

What is 9cm?

300

The ratio of cupcakes to pies to cookies is 2:3:5. There are 40 total baked goods. 


Give how many more cookies there are than cupcakes.

What is 12 more cookies?

300

Write three-eighths as a percent and decimal. 

What is 37.5% and .375?

300

A fenced rectangular garden is 10 m wide and 20 m long. When one side is moved outward and two other sides are increased in length, the area increases by 40 sq m.

Give the new perimeter of the garden fence.

What is 64 meters? (12 x 20)

300

The Chicago suburb where Mr. Hurley grew up.

What is Homewood?

400

The interior angle measure of a regular hexagon. 

What is 120 degrees?

400

There is a farm with a ratio of chickens : pigs of 5:7. There are 152 total legs. 


Give the number of chickens. 

What is 20 chickens?

400

The quotient of 4.56 and .8. 

What is 5.7?

400

A gumball machine contains red, green, yellow, and purple gumballs. You cannot control which color you get. You want three gumballs of any one color.

At 50¢ each, the minimum number of cents that guarantees in advance three gumballs of the same color.

What is $4.50?

400

Name the most chicago sports teams in alphabetical order.

What is the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs, Fire, Sky, Stars, White Sox

500

The volume of a cereal box with dimensions 8.5 in x 11 in x 2.25 in. 

What is 210.375 cubic inches?

500

Three is to Four as Five is to this number.

20/3 or 6.666666666

500

Find the total cost of a meal that costs $14.90 before a 20% tip.

What is $17.88?

500

At Hurley High School, the first class starts at 8:26 AM and the fourth class ends at 11:26 AM. There are 4 minutes between classes and each class is the same length.

Give the number of minutes in one class period.

What is 42 minutes?

500

The meaning of the four stars on the Chicago flag.

What is Fort Dearborn, Chicago Fire, 1893 World Fair, 1933 World Fair?

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