Money, Money, Money, Money, Monnneyyy
World Record Holders
This or That
Math Trivia
Area/ratios
100
Brittany paid $4.50 for 3 pounds of apples, how much did she pay per pound?
What is $1.50 per pound of apples?
100
The world recorder holder for fastest growing hair is at 0.75 inches in 1 month. Write this ratio in 3 different ways.
What is 0.75 inches/1 month, 0.75 inches: 1 month, 0.75 to 1 month?
100
Kevin made $50 in 5 hours of work, and Jessica made $80 in 10 hours. Who earned more money per hour?
Who is Kevin? He made $10 per hour, and Jessica made $8 per hour.
100
What is the formula to find the volume of a rectangular prism?
V = L * W * H
100
What is the area of the following polygon?
A = 24 square centimeters
200
Paul makes $75 for working 5 hours as a bank teller. How much does he make per hour?
What is $15?
200
Michael Phelps won 22 medals in 4 Olympic Games. What is his rate of medals won for each Olympic Game? (hint: it's ok if it is not a whole #).
What is 5.5 medals per Olympic Game?
200
Ashlee's juice mix has 5 cups of pineapple juice and 2 cups of grape juice. Dario's juice has 6 cups of pineapple juice and 3 cups of grape juice. Whose juice tastes more like pineapple?
What is Ashlee's juice?
200
The sixth grade intramural basketball team has a boy-to-girl ratio of 6:9. Which of the following ratios is equivalent to this ratio?
a. 6 boys to 12 girls b. 3 boys to 4 girls
c. 12 boys to 18 girls d. 24 boys to 35 girls
The correct ratio is C.
200
Which Letter represents the Height?
The height is Letter A.
300
Amari made $200 working 4 hours as a graphic designer. If she works 10 hours and gets paid the same hourly rate, how much money will she earn?
What is $500?
300
Anthony Morigerato, who lives in New York, currently holds the world recorder for fastest tap dancer. He recorded 1,163 taps in 1 minute. If he could continue this rate for an hour, how many taps would he have completed?
What is 69,780 taps in an hour?
300
Bernie buys 2 pairs of same priced shoes for $95. Darius buys 3 pairs of same priced shoes for $138. Who paid more for one pair of shoes?
Who is Bernie? He paid $47.50 per pair of shoes and Darius paid $46 per pair of shoes.
300
The name of a number with a billion zeroes after 1 has this special name. (hint: it's also the name of a very, very famous website).
What is googol? (it's pronounced google!)
300
What is the area of the following figure?
A = 4.5 square meters
400
Rihanna's new album has 12 songs that costs $12.96 on I-Tunes. Jay-Z's record company wants to charge the same rate per song for his 14 song album. How much with Jay-Z's new 14 song album cost?
What is $15.12?
400
American Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the women's world record for the 100 meter race. She ran this in a little over 10 seconds. How many meters does she run in 1 second?
What is about 10 meters per 1 second?
400
It took Alex 5 hours to read 4 articles. It took Abby 7 hours to read 6 articles. If they continue at this pace, who will read 24 articles first?
Who is Abby? Abby will take 28 hours and Alex will take 30 hours.
400
The word "algebra" comes from what language?
What is Arabic?
400
What is the volume of the rectangular prism?
V = 1080 cubic inches
500
15 movie tickets cost $120. At this rate, what is the cost per ticket?
$8.00 per ticket
500
For every 30 alligators, there must be 15 ponds. Write the ratio of alligators to ponds in three ways.
30/15
30:15
30 to 15
500
A bag of marbles contains 144 marbles. Some are red and the rest are blue. There are 18 red marbles for every blue marble. How many blue marbles are in the bag?
8 Blue marbles are in the bag.
500
Dr. Smith is making doughnuts for her class on Wednesday. The recipe calls for 4 eggs for each cup of flour. If she uses 28 eggs, how many cups of flour will she need?
She will need 7 cups of flour.
500
On a train there are 10 freight cars for every 2 passenger cars. How many passenger cars are there if it has 50 freight cars?
It would have 10 passenger cars.