Measurement Word Problems
A snake was 35 inches long. Now it is 57 inches long. How much did the snake grow?
22 inches
Erin wants to buy a dictionary that costs $12, a dinosaur book that costs $16, and a children's cookbook that costs $11. She has saved $29 from her allowance. How much more money does Erin need to buy all three books?
$10
Carrie and Jamie made cookies for the Bragg bake sale. Carrie baked 77 cookies. Jamie baked twice as many as Carrie. How many cookies did they bake altogether?
231 cookies
Leonardo and Raphael have equal‐sized pizzas. Leonardo's pizza is cut into 6 slices. Raphael's pizza is cut into 8 slices. Leonardo eats one slice of his pizza and Raphael eats 2 slices of his pizza. Are the fractions equivalent?
No, because 2/8 is greater than 1/6
1/2 - 2/8
2/8
Bob wants to build a fence that will be 20 yards long and 8 feet tall. If a gallon of paint will cover 120 square feet of the fence, how many gallons of paint should he buy?
There are 3 feet in 1 yard
4 gallons of paint
Grace started her own landscaping business. She charges $16 an hour for mowing lawns and $25 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?
$1,233
There are 100 fifth graders at Bragg School. 45 of them are girls. On Monday, 10 fifth grade girls and 8 fifth grade boys were absent. How many fifth grade boys were at Bragg on Monday?
47 5th grade boys
Jasmine feeds her cat 1/4 cup of food each day. There are 6 cups of cat food in the bag. How many days will the bag of cat food last?
24 days
Simplify 56/10
5 and 3/5
A swimming pool holds 2,500 liters of water. If you want to fill it with a hose that delivers 50 liters per minute, how long will it take to fill the pool?
50 minutes
For a bake sale, the chess club needed to sell $300 worth of goods to meet their goal. Each item cost $2. Each club member made 30 items. They sold 127 items. How much money did the chess club make?
$254
Bradley has tomato plants in his garden. This year the plants grew 118 tomatoes. Birds ate 17 of the tomatoes. 19 were ruined by bugs. He picked the rest. He froze half of them and canned the rest. How many tomatoes did he can?
41 tomatoes
A box of paper clips fell on the floor. Betty picked up 2/5 of the paper clips and Joanne picked up 3/10. How many of the paper clips did they pick up altogether?
7/10 of the paper clips
Solve and simplify if needed:
3 and 5/6 + 14/12
5 wholes
You are measuring a room that is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. What is the area of the room in square meters if 1 foot is approximately 0.30 meters?
36m2
Mrs. Needham bought 18 bags of candy for Halloween. Twelve of the bags had 56 pieces of candy each. Six of the bags had 112 pieces of candy each. If each piece of candy was worth a nickel, how much money did Mrs. Needham spend at the store?
$67.20
Sam has 45 cat stickers, 56 dog stickers, 18 bird stickers and 21 snake stickers. He wants to share them equally between his 5 friends. How many stickers will each friend get?
28 stickers each
Jane and Jerry were counting the months until their birthdays. Jane said three-fourth of the year would pass before it was her birthday. Jerry said he only needed to wait 1331 of the year. How much longer did Jane have to wait than Jerry?
5/12 of a year longer
Are these fractions equivalent?
2/3 and 34/51
yes
Jane is making cookies and needs 1 1/2 cups of flour for each batch. Each batch makes 24 cookies. How many cookies can she make if she has 12 cups of flour?
192 cookies
100 elementary schools are collecting can food items for a local charity.
● The schools have a goal to donate 30,000 cans.
● The approximate value of each can is $0.83
● 42 schools have each collected 386 items.
● 33 schools have each collected 178 items.
What is the monetary value of the number of cans they are short?
$6,568.62
A large math competition was held for 5th grade students in Wyoming.
· 45 different schools sent students to the event.
· Each school sent 32 students.
· Students were placed into teams with 12 students on each team.
How many teams were formed?
120 teams
On the last math quiz, Tara answered 5/7 of the problems correctly and Julia answered 7/10 of them correctly. If each problem is worth the same amount, who got the higher grade?
Tara got the higher grade
5/6 + 4/9 + 1/2
32/18 = 1 14/18 = 1 7/9