Worded Questions
Sunny read 5 books, Phillip read 6 books and Breanna read 7 books.
One book was read by all three children, but every other book was different.
How many different books did the children read?
16 different books
1 common book + 4 more read by Sandra (5 -1) + 5 more read by Deacon (6 – 1) + 6 more read by Breanna (7 – 1)
Mental Math
222-123
99
MENTAL MATH
37 + 70 =
107
MENTAL MATH
4 x 12
48
Simplify 64/4
=?
16
3x = 6
2
Branson and his sister Beatrice combined their allowance of $7 each, so they could buy a movie for $12.
They bought $1 containers of fruit salad with the remaining money and split the containers evenly between them.
How many containers of fruit salad did they each get?
1 container each
$7 + $7 = $14 combined allowance; $14 - $12 = $2 remaining money; $2 divided by $1 per container = 2 containers of fruit salad; 2 containers divided by 2 people
562-572
-10
MENTAL MATH
155 + 245 = ?
400
45 x 8 =
360
1/2 + 1/4 + 3/5 =
= 3/2
5x = 4x
x = ?
x = 0
Gregory's nine chickens laid an average of six eggs each per week. Gregory sold those eggs for $3 per dozen. How much money did he collect in two weeks if he sold all his eggs?
$27 in two weeks.
9 chickens x 6 eggs per chicken per week x 2 weeks = 108 eggs in two weeks. 108 eggs divided by 12 eggs per dozen = 9 dozen. 9 dozen eggs x $3 per dozen
Mental Math
60 - 31 =
29
MENTAL MATH
98 + 99 =
197
76 x 5 = ?
380
Express 7/8 as a decimal
= 0.875
(3x – 2)(4x + 1) =
A)12x2 – 8x – 2
B) 12x2 + 5x – 2
C) x2 – 5x – 2
D) 12x2 – 5x – 2
D) 12x2 – 5x – 2
Harmony used discarded paper to make notepads for her friends.
She would fold five letter size pieces of paper three times then cut along the lines. She would then stack the smaller note papers and staple them together.
How long would one notepad last if someone wrote ten notes per day?
4 days.
Folding three times makes 8 sections or note size pieces of paper per letter size paper.
8 sections x 5 papers = 40 note size papers.
40 note papers divided by 10 notes per day
42-18
24
MENTAL MATH
30 + __ = 131
101
125 x 872 =
109,000
Express 1.625 as a fraction
= 1 5/8
Simplify: 675 ÷ (6 + 9 ÷ 3)
A) 15 B) 9 C) 75 D) 225 E) 135
C) 75
When Gisselle decided to stop eating junk food, she started saving more of her allowance to buy a larger bicycle.
She saved $6 every week for 8 weeks and found a nice used bicycle for $50.
She thought that she had close to that amount in her savings jar.
Did she have enough money for the bicycle?
No
$6 per week x 8 weeks = $48. $50 - $48 = $2, so she had $2 too little for the bicycle.
Mental Math
Shane's mom said to take a break after lunch at 12:25 p.m. His break was over at 1:10 p.m. How long was his break?
45 minutes
143 + 134 =
MENTAL MATH
50 x 2 =
100
2/9 of the people on a restaurant are adults.
If there are 95 more children than adults, how many children are there in the restaurant?
133
A boy is mowing a rectangular lawn 40 ft. long and 30 ft. wide. He has cut all of it except for a rectangle that is 20 ft. long and 15 ft. wide.
What fractional part of the lawn remains uncut?
A) 1/4 B) 2/5 C) 3/125 D) 3/4
A) 1/4