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200
If a year has 365 days in it, how many days ago was the book checked out?
288 x 365 =105,120 days
200
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Some groups have over 300 flamingos. Which numbers round to 300?
A. 7,300
B. 384
C. 297
D. 345
C and D
200
The longest MLB game lasted for 8 hours and 6 minutes. How many minutes is that?
486 minutes
200
7 x 3 x 10 = 55 + ___
155
400
A giraffe's neck has 7 bones, the same as a human neck. How many bones are in 28 people's necks?
7 x 28 = 196 bones
400
A cheetah can run seventy-five miles an hour, which is faster than a car drives on a city street. About how many hours would it take a cheetah to get to get to Oklahoma, which is three hundred sixty-eight miles from Austin, if it ran at full speed the entire time? How many minutes would that be?
about 5 hours
about 300 minutes
400
The longest swim without stopping was 139 miles. Round that number to the nearest ten AND the nearest hundred.
140 miles
100 miles
400
Write three questions about this graph that have an answer of 15.
Possible questions:
1. How many people prefer baseball?
2. How many more people prefer football than basketball?
3. How many more people prefer hockey than baseball?
4. How many more people prefer soccer than basketball?
600
Sloths can hold their breath under water for 40 minutes. In four hours, how many times would a sloth need to breathe?
6 times
600
A kangaroo can jump over ten feet high in a single leap.
Which of these numbers, when rounded to the nearest 10, would have an eight in the tens place?
A. 25,687.88
B. 138,281.2
C. 9,856,984.9
D. 78,678.87
B, C, and D
600
Sha'Bella's mom loves to run marathons. A marathon is 26.2 miles. If she ran three marathons last year, how many miles did she run during those races?
78.6 miles
600
How many children prefer cheese than pepperoni pizza?
15 - 9 = 6 children
800
Children have about 300 bones, while adults have 206 bones. How many more bones do the children have than the adults in Rune's family? (His family has 4 kids and 2 parents.)
The children have 788 more bones than their parents.
800
Ants are the strongest animals - they can carry up to fifty times their weight. This is like a human lifting a car!
If an ant weighs 4 mg, how much weight could two ants carry if they worked together?
400 mg.
800
Bo Nix, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos, will make $18,765,091.58 as a football player over the next four years. Write this number in expanded notation.
(1 x 10,000,000) + (8 x 1,000,000) + (7 x 100,000) + (6 x 10,000) + (5 x 1,000) + (9 x 10) + (1 x 1) + (5 x 0.1) + (8 x .01)
800
Luc tracked his steps and made this pictograph. How many fewer steps did he walk on Monday and Tuesday than on Wednesday - Friday?
13,500 - 900 = 4,500 fewer steps
1000
The average person blinks 15-20 times per minute. Which of these is NOT a good estimate for how many times a person blinks in 1 hour?
A. 1,200 times
B. 500 times
C. 950 times
D. 900 times
B
1000
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. How many hours would they be awake in a full week?
2 x 7 = 14 hours
1000
basketball = 12
hoop = 6
shoes = 14
clipboard = 7
? = 39
1000
Helen has 61 cards.