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The regular price of a calculator is $12.30. Warren paid 75¢ less than the regular price for the calculator. He also paid $1.48 for a pad of paper. What is the total amount Warren paid for these two items?
What is 13.03
100
The base of a rectangular prism has a length of 15 inches and a width of 13 inches. What is the area of this base of the prism in square inches?
What is 195
100
Anthony has a goal of saving $96.20. He will save the same amount each week for 13 weeks. How much will Anthony need to save each week in order to meet his goal?
What is $7.4
100
Denise spent $3.45 on snacks every day for 11 days. What is the amount of money Denise spent on these snacks?
What is $37.95
100
A rope was 14.35 inches long. Megan cut the rope into 7 pieces of equal length. What was the length of each piece of rope in inches?
What is 2.05 inches
200
Scott drank 3.5 bottles of water yesterday. Each bottle contained 1.2 pints of water. What was the number of pints of water Scott drank yesterday?
What is 4.2
200
On Thursday the Meat King Market sold 210 pounds of ground beef. On Friday they sold twice that amount. On Saturday they only sold 130 pounds. How much more meat did they sell on Friday than Saturday?
What is 290 Ibs
200
Tara has a box of 1,098 beads for making bracelets. She wants to put 15 beads on each bracelet she makes. What is the greatest number of bracelets Tara can make with these beads?
What is 73
200
Mr.Márquez had 123 eggs in a refrigerator in his restaurant. He put 32 more cartons of eggs in the refrigerator. Each carton contained 18 eggs. What is the number of eggs Mr. Márquez now has in his refrigerator?
What is 699
200
A company makes 625 cell phone cases each day. How many cell phone cases does the company make in 31 days?
What is 19,375
300
Freddy exercised 2.5 hours per day on 4 days last week. He burned 330 calories per hour while exercising. How many calories did Freddy burn by exercising last week?
What is 3,300
300
Harvey wants to buy a gift for his father that costs $35.92 and a gift for his sister that costs $52.08. He has saved $16.28. How much more does he need to save in order to buy the gifts?
What is $71.72
300
Faith had $100. She went to the grocery store and bought three gallons of ice cream for $7.29 each. Then she went to the farmer's market and bought two dozen ears of corn for $5/dozen. How much money did Faith have left?
What is $68.13
300
Grace started her own landscaping business. She charges $6 an hour for mowing lawns and $11 for pulling weeds. In September she mowed lawns for 63 hours and pulled weeds for 9 hours. How much money did she earn in September?
What is $477
300
William has a lemonade stand. Today he made $17.55 in lemonade sales and one third that amount in cookie sales. How much money did William make altogether?
What is $23.40
400
Calvin paints pictures and sells them at art shows. He charges $56.25 for a large painting. He charges $25.80 for a small painting. Last month he sold six large paintings and three small paintings. How much did he make in all?
What is $414.90
400
Brayden and Gavin were playing touch football against Cole and Freddy. Touchdowns were worth 7 points. Brayden and Gavin scored 7 touchdowns. Cole and Freddy's team scored 9 touchdowns. How many more points did Cole and Freddy have than Brayden and Gavin?
What is 14 points
400
A student graphs a point that is represented by the ordered pair(3,0). In this ordered pair, what does the number 3 indicate?
What is the point is 3 units to the right of 0 on the x-axis.
400
Ann is baking cookies. She bakes three dozen oatmeal raisin cookies, two dozen sugar cookies, and four dozen chocolate chip cookies. Ann gives away two dozen oatmeal raisin cookies, 1.5 dozen sugar cookies, and 2.5 dozen chocolate chip cookies. How many total cookies does she keep?
What is 30 cookies
400
Last month Jim drove his car 2,718.3 miles. That brought the car’s total mileage to 87,416 miles. What was the car’s total mileage before last month?
What is 84697.7 miles
500
Jennie makes quilts. She can make 7 quilts with 21 yards of material. How many yards of material would be required to make 12 quilts?
What is 36 yards
500
Mr. Anderson had 185 pieces of wood. He sold 25 pieces of wood to his neighbor and stacked the rest of the wood into piles around his house. Each pile of wood contained 40 pieces of wood. How many piles of wood did Mr. Anderson make? DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Write an equation to solve this problem! It must be complete based on the order of operations!
What is 4 piles
500
Raymond used 42 cubes to build the first layer of a rectangular prism. The edge length of each cube was 1 inch. The finished prism had a total of 7 layers. What is the volume of Raymond’s prism in cubic inches?
What is 294
500
The lengths of two insects are given below. • Ladybug: 10 millimeters • Walking stick: 30 centimeters What is the difference in length of these two insects in millimeters?
What is 290
500
The table shows the population of three Texas counties. The population of Gray County is missing. Population: County Population Anderson 58,308 Dallas 2,416,014 Brazos 197,632 Gray The population of Gray County is 35,553 less than the population of Anderson County. What is the combined population of these four counties?
What is Gray County is 22,775, so the combined population is 2,694,729
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