Algebraic Thinking
Mary has $54. Jack has x times as much money as Mary does. The total amount of money Jack has is $486. What is x?
$9
Mrs. Winters went to the bank with eight 100 dollar bills. She wanted to replace them with all 10 dollar bills. How many 10 dollar bills will the bank give her in exchange?
80 ten dollar bills.
Reduce the fraction 44/99 to its lowest form.
4/9
How many kilometers are there in 4,000 meters?
4 kilometers
The total of the measures of <A and <B equals 90 degrees. If <A measures 51 degrees, then what does <B measure?
39 degrees
Jose purchased 4 books and 8 pens. Each book costs $3, and each pen costs $5. If he gave $100 to the shopkeeper, how much change did he receive back?
$52
Write the expanded for of this number:
954,351
900,000 + 50,000 + 4,000 + 300 + 50 + 1
The cheerleaders ate 9/18 of a sheet cake. Write this fraction in lowest form.
1/2
4 feet and 5 inches is the same as:
53 inches.
1 degree is defined as 1/360 of a whole turn. What fraction of a whole turn is 45 degrees?
1/8
Charlie sells paintings. He charges $35 for a large painting and x dollars for a small painting. He sold 8 large paintings and 6 small paintings and earned $412. How much did he charge for each small painting?
$22
The Campbells have 3,000 books in their personal library. If 1,479 of the books are fiction, and the rest are non-fiction. How many are non-fiction? Round to the nearest hundred.
1,500 books.
Marty eats vegetables 6/7 days out of the week. Dan eats them 3/7 days out of the week. How many more days does Marty eat vegetables each week?
3 days.
A baseball game began at 7:05 PM and lasted for 2 hours and 38 minutes. At what time did the game end?
9 : 43 PM
At ice skating lessons, Erika attempts to do a 360 degree spin, but she only manages a half turn on her first attempt. How many degrees short of her goal was Erika's first attempt?
180 degrees
Keith is helping his grandmother roll quarters to take to the bank. Each roll can hold 40 quarters. Keith's grandmother has told Keith that he can keep any leftover quarters, once the rolling is done. If there are 942 quarters to be rolled, how much money will Keith get to keep?
$5.50
James got 300 coins while diving in the game, The Amazing World of Gumball Splash-Masters! However, he hit 2 birds and lost 12 coins. During the second round, he got 250 coins and hit no birds. How many coins did he have at the end of the second round?
538 coins.
Cook is making sandwiches for the party. If each person at a party eats 2/8 of a pound of turkey, and there are 5 people at the party, how many pounds of turkey are needed?
1 1/4 pound
A chalkboard is 72 inches long and 30 inches wide. What is the perimeter?
204 inches.
Erika's sister, Melanie, attempts to do a 360 degree turn, just like her sister, but she made a quarter turn on her first attempt. How many degrees short of her goal was Melanie's first attempt?
270 degrees
George and Michael are both in fourth grade, but attend different schools. George goes to Hillside Elementary and Michael goes to Sunnyside Elementary. Hillside has 7 fourth grade classes with 18 students in each class. Sunnyside has 5 fourth grade classes with 21 students in each class. How any more students are at Hillside than Sunnyside?
21 students.
John bought 6 packs of beads. Each pack has the same number of beads. Altogether, he has 1,494 beads. How many beads are in each pack?
249 beads.
A one-way airline ticket to Atlanta form New York costs $65.00 more on the weekend than it does during the week. How much would a $225 (weekday price) ticket cost if the traveler needed to fly on a Saturday?
$290.00
Amir bought two cowboy hats for $47, a pair of cowboy boots for $150, and a leather belt for $32. The tax was $13.74. He gave the cashier $300. How much change does she owe him?
$57.26
Trixie is a professional photographer. She uses software on her computer to edit some wedding photos. She rotates the photograph of the bride 120 clockwise. Then she rotates it another 140 degrees clockwise. If she continues rotating the photo clockwise, how many more degrees will Trixie need to turn it to have made a complete 360 degree turn?
100 degrees.