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### 100

How many degrees are in a right angle?
90 degrees

### 100

Jeremy baked 14 cookies.  Jenna baked six times the amount of cookies Jeremy baked.  How many cookies did Jenna bake?

### 100

Name BOTH formulas we can use to calculate volume.
V = L x W x H AND V = B x H

### 100

1/3 + 5/4 (Write your answer as a mixed number if necessary)
1 and 7/12

### 100

Mr. Grippo ate 6.55 pounds of unicorn meat and then had 3.45 pounds left. How much unicorn meat did he have to start with?
10 pounds

### 200

Find the next number in the pattern: 1, 3, 11, 43, __
171

### 200

Johnny was five in 1997. If his birthday is January 1st, how old is he now?
21 years old

### 200

A certain rectangle has a length of 6 cm, a width of 4 cm, and a height of 8 cm. What is the volume of the rectangle?
192 cubic centimeters

3/5 - 3/8
9/40

### 200

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 1,065 goals in his lifetime. He is now 32 years old. What is the average number of goals he has scored each year in his life? (Divide completely to produce a decimal, round to the nearest hundreth)
33.28 goals per year

### 300

You flip a coin two times. What is the probability that you get "tails" two times in a row? (Express your answer as either a fraction or a percentage)
1/4 or 25%

### 300

Austin has 13 gallons of gas in his car. If he uses 1/6 of the gas to get home, how many gallons of gas are left in the car? (Write your answer as a mixed number if necessary)
2 and 1/6 gallons

### 300

A cube has a base area of 25 cm squared. It also has a height of 5 cm. What is the volume of the cube?
125 cubic centimeters

### 300

4/10 + 7/3 (Write as a simplified mixed number)
2 and 11/15

### 300

Chris buys 12 birthday cards that cost $2.13 each. How much does he pay in total?$25.56

### 400

The width of a rectangle is 12 meters. If the length is 1.5 times the width, what is the perimeter of the rectangle?
60 meters

### 400

Greg orders an ice cream cake from Carvel.  The cake weighs 18 ounces and his friends eat 3/4 of the cake.  How many ounces of cake are left?
4 and 1/2 ounces

### 400

Mr. Torhan is making a crate for his dog. He needs the dimensions of the crate to be 3 x 2 x 4, all measured in feet. What is the volume, in cubic feet, of the crate?
24 cubic feet

### 400

9/4 - 2/7 (Write as a simplified mixed number)
1 and 27/28

### 400

While fishing, Alex realizes he needs a bigger reel to hold all his fishing line.  His original reel holds about 230 yards of line.  If he buys a real that is 2.3 times the size, how much line can the new reel hold?
529 yards

### 500

The local track team has 20 members.  If the coach chooses two players randomly to compete in the sprint, how many different combinations of two players can be picked?
380 different combinations

### 500

Teresa has 123 square feet of wrapping paper. If she needs to wrap presents for 13 people, how much wrapping paper can she use per person EQUALLY?
9 square feet

### 500

Don has a rectangular water glass that holds 60 cubic inches of water. If the glass has a width of 3 inches, and a length of 2 inches, what is the height of the glass?
10 inches

### 500

Write the following as a simplified mixed number: Mary is making a garden. 12/20 acres of it are roses, 6/10 acres are lillies, and 3/4 acres are sunflowers. How many acres of flowers does she have in total?
1 and 19/20 acres

### 500

122.12 divided by 8.6
14.2