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A merchant shipped 5,204 goods. Write this number in expanded form and word form.
5,000 + 200 + 4
Five thousand two hundred four
A colonial farmer planted 16 rows of corn. Each row had 58 plants. How many plants did he plant in all?
928 plants
A colonial baker made 84 loaves of bread. He sold them equally over 4 days. How many loaves did he sell each day?
21 loaves each day
A family baked bread. They ate 3/8 of a loaf in the morning and 2/8 in the afternoon. How much of the loaf did they eat total?
5/8 of the bread
A wooden table is 15 feet long and 4 feet wide. What is the area of the table?
60 square feet
A merchant shipped 395,204 goods. Write this number in expanded form and word form.
300,000 + 90,000+ 5,000 + 200 + 4
three hundred ninety five thousand two hundred four
A colonial child walked 2 miles to school and 2 miles home. How many miles did the child walk in 5 days?
A colonial farmer harvested 864 ears of corn. He wants to divide them equally into 6 storage bins. How many ears of corn go in each bin?
144 ears of corn will go in each bin
At a colonial market, a merchant sold 5/12 of his apples in the morning and 3/12 in the afternoon. How many more apples did the merchant sell in the morning?
2/12 more
A colonial shopkeeper made 2,458 candles in the spring and 3,672 candles in the summer. How many total candles did he make?
6,130 candles
A farmer harvested 4,389 ears of corn in one field and 2,615 in another. About how many thousand total ears of corn did he harvest?
About 7,000 ears of corn
A farmer stores 225 sacks of wheat each season for 8 seasons. How many bags of wheat are stored in all?
1,800 bags of wheat
A builder has 1,248 wooden planks. Each house requires 9 planks. How many full houses can he build?
138 full houses
A seamstress has 1 whole piece of cloth. She uses 2/9 of it for a shirt and 5/9 of it for a dress. How much is left?
2/9 of the cloth is left
2/9 + 5/9 = 7/9
9/9 - 7/9 = 2/9
A colonial shopkeeper sold 125 candles in one week. The next week, he sold 38 more candles than the first week. How many candles did he sell in total for both weeks?
288 candles
A trading ship carried 6,305 items. It sold 2,789 items at one port. How many items are left?
3,516 items
A builder uses 125 wooden planks to build one house. He builds 8 houses. If each plank costs $3, what is the total cost of all the planks?
$3,072
A cloth maker weaves 35 pieces of cloth each week for 14 weeks. She packs them into boxes of 10. How many full boxes can she make?
49 full boxes
A farmer stored wheat in bins. In one bin, 4/10 was used, and in another bin, 3/10 was used. How much wheat is left?
3/10 is left
A teacher orders 28 boxes of chalk. Each box contains 64 pieces of chalk. If 320 pieces are used, how many pieces remain?
1,472 pieces of chalk
A colonial town in New York had a population of 6,500 people. Another colonial town in Pennsylvania had 6,483 people. Which town had more people?
How many more people does the town have?
A candle maker calculated:
1257 × 4 = 40,848 candles
1,0000 x 4 = 40,000
200 x 4 = 800
50 x 4 = 20
7 x 4 = 28
1. 1,000 x 4 (extra zero was added to make 1,0000)
2. 50 x 4 = 200 (forgot to add an extra zero because 5x4 = 20 so 50 x 4 = 200)
A candle maker produced 945 candles. He puts them into boxes of 9.
A colonial baker made 36 loaves of bread each day for 14 days. On each day, 3/4 of the bread was sold. How many loaves were sold each day?
*convert improper fraction to mixed #
27 loaves
36 x 3/4 = 108/4
108 divided by 4 = 27
A colonial shopkeeper sold 125 candles in one week. The next week, he sold 38 more candles than the first week. How many candles did he sell in total for both weeks?
288 candles