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If a basketball player has scored 56 in their career, and they have averaged 52 points per game, how many games have they played?
54 or 625 games (56 ÷ 52 = 56-2 = 54 = 625)
The weight of a baby crocodile is approximately 32 pounds. An adult crocodile can weigh up to 35 times that amount. How much can an adult crocodile weigh given these numbers?
37 or 2,187 pounds (32 x 35 = 37 = 2,187)
A tray of chocolate chip cookies has 43 cookies on it. If each cookie has 53 calories. How many calories does the whole tray of cookies have?
203 or 8,000 calories (43 x 53 = 203 = 8,000)
The number of ticket sales for a movie can be represented by the following expression: (33)5
How many tickets have been sold?
315 or 14,348,907 tickets (33x5 = 315 =14,348,907)
If a gigantic field has (53)4 flowers in it, how many flowers are in the field?
512 or 244,140,625 flowers (53 x 4 = 512)
If a soccer stadium holds a total of (42)4 people in the stands, how many people can attend the game?
48 or 65,536 people (42x4 = 48 = 65,536)
At an aquarium, there is a fish tank with purple and yellow fish in it. There are 33 purple fish and 53 yellow fish. How many total fish are in the tank?
152 fish (33 + 53 = 27 + 125 = 152)
A candy store sells big bags of lollipops for 74 cents. Each lollipop is worth 72 cents. How many lollipops are in the bag?
72 or 49 lollipops (74 ÷ 72 = 74-2 = 72 = 49)
A TV series pays its cast a total of 87 dollars. If 82 equally-paid actors/actresses need to be hired, how much money does each actor/actress receive?
85 or $32,768 (87 ÷ 82 = 85 = 32,768)
A section of forest has only 2 types of trees: oak and pine. If there are 62 oak trees, and there are 63 times as many pine trees, how many pine trees are there?
65 or 7,776 pine trees (62 x 63 = 65 = 7,776)
A baseball player has a batting average of 2-3. What is the players batting average?
1/23 or 1/8 or 0.125
At the zoo, there are 30 male elephants and 41 female elephants. How many elephants are at the zoo?
5 elephants (30 = 1, 41 = 4, and 1 + 4 = 5)
At a party there were 1/4-3 cupcakes. How many cupcakes were there?
43 or 64 cupcakes (1/4-3 = 43 = 64)
In a movie, the main character was enlarged to 1/3-3 feet tall. How tall are they now?
33 or 27 feet tall (1/3-3 = 33 = 27)
The thickness of a specific flower petal is represented as 3-3 centimeters. How thick is this flower petal?
1/33 = 1/27 = .037 centimeters
In Peyton Manning's NFL career, he threw for 7.194 x 104 yards. Write this number in standard form.
71,940 yards
There are 35,740 penguins on an iceberg. How could this number be written in scientific notation?
3.574 x 104
There were 2.65 x 106 hotdogs sold a sports stadium last year. How many hotdogs were sold?
2,650,000 hotdogs
An actor was paid .009 of his total net worth for his last movie. How could this number be written in scientific notation?
9 x 10-3
The cells in a oak tree leaf are 4 x 10-4 millimeters in size. Express this number in standard form.
0.0004 millimeters
A basketball team scored 1 x 104 points in the regular season, and 1.5 x 103 points in the playoffs. How many total points did they score?
1.5 x 104 or 15,000 points (1 x 104 = 10 x 103, 1 + 1.5 = 15, 15 x 103 = 1.5 x 104 = 15,000)
In a period of 14 days, a blue whale can eat up to 2.8 x 1010 plankton. Assuming it eats the same amount each day, how many plankton does the blue whale eat per day?
2 x 109 or 2,000,000,000 plankton (2.8 ÷ 1.4 = 2, 1010 ÷ 101 = 109, so 2 x 109 = 2,000,000,000)
For a town concert, 2.5 x 102 chocolate chip cookies and 1 x 102 sugar cookies were made. If 7 x 101 people attend the concert, how many cookies total could they each have?
5 x 100 or 5 cookies (2.5 + 1.0 = 3.5, 3.5 x 102 ÷ 7 x 101 = .5 x 101 = 5 x 100 = 5)
A famous actor has made 2 x 102 movies, and averages 5 x 104 dollars per movie. Just based off of these movies, how much money has the actor made in total?
1 x 107 or 10,000,000 dollars (2 x 5 = 10, 102 x 104 = 106, 10 x 106 = 1 x 107 = 10,000,000)
In a field, there are 6 x 105 flowers. 2.5 x 104 are white, and the rest are pink. How many of the flowers are pink?
5.75 x 105 or 575,000 pink flowers (6 x 105 = 60 x 104, 60 - 2.5 = 57.5, and 57.5 x 104 = 5.75 x 105 = 575,000)