Fractions
A fisherman has 6 pieces of rope that are ⅖ yards in length. What is the total length of rope that the fisherman has?
12/5 or 2 2/5 yards
An elephant at the zoo weighs 2,196 pounds. Her baby is half her weight. How much does the baby elephant weigh?
1,098 pounds
Isabelle spent half of her weekly allowance playing mini-golf. To earn more money her parents let her wash the car for $4. What is her weekly allowance if she ended with $12?
$16.00
Monica works in a coffee shop. She poured ⅚ gallons of coffee equally into 10 cups. How much coffee was in each cup?
1/12 gallons
There are a total of 2,671 honey bees living in a hive. Of those bees, 1,032 of them are females. The rest are males. How many male honey bees are living in the hive?
1,639 male honeybees
Ally had $24 to spend on seven pencils. After buying them she had $10 left. How much did each pencil cost?
$2.00
The football team asked to run a total of 9 miles around the field. If one lap around the field is ⅜ of a mile, How many times must the team run around the field?
24 times
Anita goes to the park each day to feed the pigeons. On Monday, there were 43 pigeons at the park. On Wednesday there were 37 pigeons at the park. There were 29 fewer pigeons at the park on Monday than on Tuesday. How many pigeons were at the park on Tuesday?
14 pigeons
Benjamin has $596. He spends $200 on new headphones and the rest of the money divides evenly amongst his three little brothers. How much money did he give to each brother?
He gave each brother $132
Sarah baked 28 chocolate chip cookies. She ate ¼ of the cookies and split the rest of them equally amongst her three friends. How many cookies did she give each friend?
7 cookies
Henry spotted 45 squirrels and 28 rabbits in his backyard today. There were 12 less squirrels and 7 more rabbits in his backyard yesterday. How many squirrels and rabbits did Henry spot in his backyard altogether?
141 squirrels and rabbits
Jenna and Kenny do chores around the house to earn money for a new TV. Jenna earned $15 each week to walk the dog. Kenny earned $20 each week to mow the lawn. After 4 weeks, How much money did they earn altogether? If the TV cost $199, how much money do they still need?
They earned $140 altogether. They still need $59.
There are 96 fish at a pet store. Of those fish, ⅔ are Goldfish and the rest are Guppies. If the Guppies are divided evenly into 4 tanks, how many Guppies would there be in each tank?
16 Guppies
A pizza shop sold 307 pepperoni pies this week. They sold 726 Buffalo chicken pies and 198 less pepperoni pies than cheese pies.
A) How many cheese pies did the pizza shop sell?
B) What is the total amount of pizza pies sold?
A) 505 cheese pies
B) 1,538 pizza pies
Taylor has $100 to spend at a toy store. The toy store is having a sale where you save $10 if you buy 3 board games. Taylor bought 3 board games that cost $18 each.
A) How much money did she spend on the games?
B) How much money did she have left over?
A) $44 spent on the games
B) $54 left over