Using Place Value
Fractions
Story Problems
100

Compare using  the less than, greater than or equal to sign: 42,617    ?   42,167

42,617  is greater than  42,167

100

Which fraction is greater?

6/10 or 3/8

6/10

100

At one Chiefs game at Arrowhead stadium, 93,532 fans attended. At the next home game, there were 97, 047 fans. How many more attended the second game than the first game?

3,515 more fans

200

Round 971,278 to the nearest hundred

971,300

200

The mixed number that shows the

same amount as this fraction: 

12/5

2 and 2/5

200

The five middle schools that feed into Northtown High School each have 235 students in their 8th grade class. When the 5 8th grade classes go to Northtown High School next year, how many students will be in the freshman class?

1,180 students

300

Write this in standard form (as a number): Five hundred three thousand fifteen

503,015

300

Mrs. Smith wants to make two pasta casseroles next week. One needs 1 3/5 of a pound of pasta. The other needs  2 3/5 pounds of pasta. How much pasta will she need to buy to have enough for both recipes?

4 and 1/5 Pounds

300

Some workers who wanted to replace the carpet in the Welsh family’s gaming room figured out that the area of the gaming room was  63 square feet. They had measured the length of the room as 9 square feet. How wide was the room?

The gaming room was 7 feet wide.

400

Select all of the numbers that will round to 56,000: 55,432, 55,711, 56,099, 56,909

B 55,711

and 

C 56,099

400

Jadyn went out running to prepare for her next  cross country meet. She planned to run 3 5/8 miles. After running 1 3/8 miles, she stopped for some water. How much farther did she have to run after she stopped?

2 2/8 miles

400

The Wilkens family wanted to put pretty decorative brick around the edge of their rectangular patio in the backyard. The patio is 8 feet wide. It is twice as long as it is wide. How many total feet worth of bricks will they need to put the brick all the way around the patio?

48 feet worth of bricks

500

Write this in standard form (as a number): 2 x 10,000 + 3 x 1,000 + 4 x 10 + 3 x 1

23,043

500

Josie was making trail mix. In each batch, she put 2/3 of a cup of almonds. If she makes 4 batches, how many cups of almonds will she use?

8/3 - which is also 2 2/3 cups of almonds

500

Sonya, Tyler and Anna bought a lot of beads to make necklaces and bracelets with. They bought 374 beads. Can they divide the 374 beads among themselves with everyone getting the same number, or will there be some leftover?

No, they cannot divide them evenly. Each person would get 124 beads, but there would be 2 left over.