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No Calculator!

Mrs. Durant has $13 in her snack budget. She buys 3 jumbo packs of trail mix, and each pack costs $5.

After buying the snacks, how much money does she have left in her budget?

-$2.00 

meaning she is $2 over her budget.

100
Use a calculator!

A cube with side lengths of 1.4 inches rests on a table. 


What is the surface area of that cube?

11.76 inches2

100

No calculator! Jaydence and Tucker are trying to stop Ms. Raven before she unlocks a stolen vault at the school.

To crack the code, they find a clue: “The code is a number. If you multiply it by 3 and then subtract 6, you get 24.” 

Question: What number unlocks the vault?

The number that unlocks the vault is 10

100

No Calculator! Students went on a hike and found a snake in a shallow creek 4.5 inches below the surface of the water. Curious, they threw rocks into the creek. The largest rock sank to the bottom, 1 foot below the surface of the water. Note: 1 foot = 12 inches

What is the vertical distance between the snake and the rock?


7.5 inches

100

True or False: A unique triangle can have three side lengths of 3 inches, 2 inches, and 10 inches. Do not use a calculator!

False

200

Use a calculator!

Terence finds a new Elden Ring game priced at $60.00 before tax. The video game store charges a 7% sales tax on the retail price.

How much does Terence pay in total, including tax?

$64.20

200

Use a calculator! Note: The image is not drawn perfectly to scale.

How much space is inside of the tent that has the shape of a triangular prism, below? 

110.76 ft3

200

Use a calculator! Find the value of x in the perfectly balanced scale.

x = 7

200

Use a calculator! It took a group of boys approximately 35 minutes to walk 1.2 miles around the camping grounds. Assuming boys walked the same rate, how long would it take them to walk 3 miles? 

Approximately 87 minutes. Other acceptable answers are 87.5 minutes. 87 minutes and 30 seconds. Around 88 minutes. An hour and 27 minutes

200

True or False: Only one unique triangle can have three angles measuring at 50 degrees, 50 degrees, and 80 degrees. Do not use a calculator!

False

300

Use a calculator! KJ works at a local bookstore. She earns a daily wage of $40 each day. In addition, she earns a 10% commission on the total money he brings in from selling horror books.

Over the course of a week, KJ sells $240 worth of horror books. How much money does KJ make in a week?

$304.00

300

Use a calculator! India buys a circular pool for her mansion with a circumference of  18pi feet. How much floor space should the pool take up?

 81pi feet2 or approximately 254.5 feet2 

300

Use a calculator! What percentage of squares represent the smile of the robot?

12.5%

300

Use a calculator! A bathroom at a camping site flooded as water poured out at a constant rate of 2.8 gallons every 2.5 minutes. The water flowed continuously for 24 hours.

How many gallons of water poured onto the floor?

1,612.8 gallons 

300

Use a calculator! Determine the value of x in the image below.

X = 35