Word Problems
There are 812 students at Paw Creek Elementary School. 429 of them are girls. How many are boys?
383 boys
What fraction does the shaded part of the diagram represent?
3/8
Zaiden and Kyrie both split their Crunch bar into 6 pieces. Kyrie ate 3 pieces. Zaiden at 4 pieces. Who ate more of their Crunch bar?
Zaiden, because their pieces are the same size and Zaiden ate more of them.
Ms. DeVitto has 48 pencils. She wants to share them equally between 8 of her friends. How many pencils will each friend get?
6 pencils
Mr. Langrock wants to get new floors in the gym. Help Mr. Langrock know how many tiles to order by finding the area of the gym below.
30 square units
Miguel has 398 baseball cards and 245 football cards. Which of the following best describes about how many cards Miguel has?
A Less than 600 cards
B About 650 cards
C About 700 cards
D More than 700 cards
B
Ms. Hickner brought in a tray of brownies. She cut them into eighths. The teachers ate 5 of them. What fraction represents how much of the brownies are left?
3/8
Which fraction is equivalent to 1/4?
a. 1/6
b. 2/8
c. 3/4
d. 2/4
B.
Kelvin’s bedroom has 24 tiles on the ceiling.
The tiles are in equal rows.
6 tiles are in each row.
How many rows of tiles are there in Kelvins room?
4 rows
Which of the following rectangles has the greatest area?
Nicolette has a collection of 342 stamps. Nicolette has 126 more stamps than her sister Katina. How many stamps does Katina have?
216 stamps
What point does the dot on the number line represent?
2/6
What fraction is equivalent to 3?
a. 3/3
b. 9/3
c. 1/3
d. 6/3
b. 9/3
Monique noticed a pattern when looking at the multiples of 4 and 8. What may she have noticed?
D.
Da’Mani drew this rectangle on a sheet of graph paper. What is the area of the shaded rectangle?
24 square units
Raquel has 274 beads. She is working on a craft that uses 503 beads. How many more beads does she need to finish the craft?
229 more beads
Find the distance between points C and D.
5/8
Ms. DeVitto split her sandwich into fourths and ate two pieces. Mrs. Hickner split her sandwich into sixths, and ate two pieces. Who ate less?
Ms. Hickner ate less, because they ate the same number of pieces, but Ms. Hickner's pieces were smaller.
Which value of L makes the equation true?
5 = L ÷ 7
35
Jason wants to find the area of the rectangle below. The rectangle is 9 units wide and 4 units long. What expression could he use to help him find the area?
(2 x 9) + (2 x 9)
Julian has been mowing his neighbors grass to earn money to buy a new game.
He earns 10 dollars each day for mowing
He has mowed 4 yards so far this week
He still needs 15 more dollars to buy the game. How much does the game cost?
55
What fraction is represented by the car on the number line?
a. 2/3
b. 5/6
c. 4/4
d. 3/6
Iker got a chocolate bar. He broke his chocolate bar into 2 pieces. Then, he cut each half into thirds. He ate 2 pieces. How much of the chocolate bar did he eat?
a. 1/3
b. 2/4
c. 2/2
d. 3/6
a. 1/3
Ms. DeVitto was looking at the chart below and realized something about multiples of 9. What could it be?
D.
Penelope wants to build a treehouse. She wants the area of the floor to be 45 square feet. Which of the following could be dimensions for the length and width of the floor?
a. 4 feet wide and 5 feet long
b. 7 feet wide and 7 feet long
c. 10 feet wide and 4 feet long
d. 9 feet wide and 5 feet long
d. 9 feet wide and 5 feet long