Place Value
Nevada, Arizona, Montana, California, Texas, Alaska
Ray, Robin, and Freddy went fishing. They spent 1/6 of their money on water, 4/6 of their money on lunch, and the rest on worms. What fraction of their money was spent on worms?
1/6 of their money was spent on worms.
Alison bought 3 bottles of water that cost $1.25 each. She paid with a $20 bill. How much change did she get back?
Alison will receive $16.25 in change.
Sally's sunflower plant is 8 feet 9 inches tall. How many inches tall is her sunflower plant?
Answer: 105 inches
A restaurant sells 1,725 pounds of spaghetti and 925 pounds of linguini every month. After 9 months, how many pounds of pasta does the restaurant sell?
After 9 months, the restaurant sells 23,850 pounds of pasta.
494,852 people went to the water park in the month of July. Round this number to the nearest ten thousand to estimate how many people went to the water park. Use a number line to show your work.
490,000
Joanne wrote a letter that was 1 and 1/4 pages long. Katie wrote a letter that was 3/4 page shorter than Joanne's letter. How long was Katie's letter?
Katie's letter was 2/4 page long.
Jenna wants to make a dress for her costume in the school play. She has 7/10 yd. of red fabric and 84/100 yd. of blue fabric. How much fabric does Jenna have altogether? Record your answer as a fraction and as a decimal.
Fraction: 1 and 54/100 yd. of fabric
Decimal: 1.54 yd. of fabric
It took Jessica 5 hours and 45 minutes to complete her homework last night. How many minutes did it take Jessica to complete her homework?
If Suntrust Park holds 97,439 fans and Shea Stadium holds 84,592 fans, how many fans will both parks hold?
Both parks will hold 182,031 fans.
The Carson family saved up $39,580 for a new home. The cost of their dream home is 10 times as much as they have saved. How much does their dream home cost?
$395,800
A butcher prepares 120 sausages using 3/8 pound of meat for each. How many pounds of sausage did he use in all?
The butcher used 45 lbs. of sausage in all.
Henry has 8 dimes and 49 pennies. He wishes to buy a toy at the toy store that costs $1.99. Using <, >, or =, compare the amount of money Henry has to the amount of money the toy costs and then tell whether or not Henry has enough money to purchase the toy.
$1.29 < $1.99
Henry doesn't have enough money to purchase the toy.
Roger's cat weights 7 pounds 11 ounces. How many ounces does Roger's cat weigh?
Answer: 123 ounces
Jared sold 194 Boy Scout chocolate bars. Matthew sold three times as many as Jared. Gary sold 297 fewer than Matthew. How many bars did Gary sell?
Gary sold 285 chocolate bars.
Soldier Field has a seating capacity of 432,875 people. Write this number in expanded AND word form.
Expanded: 400,000 + 30,000 + 2,000 + 800 + 70 + 5
Word: four hundred thirty-two thousand, eight hundred seventy-five.
Carol made punch. She used 12 and 3/8 cups of juice and then added three times as much ginger ale. Then, she added 1 cup of lemonade. How many cups of punch did her recipe make?
Carol's recipe made 50 and 4/8 (or 1/2) cups of punch.
Jeremiah has 5/10 of his birthday cake left over from the weekend. His cousin Gabby has 34/100 of her birthday cake left from the weekend. Using <, >, or =, compare the remainder of Jeremiah's cake to Gabby's cake and tell who has more cake left.
50/100 > 34/100
Jeremiah has more cake left over than Gabby.
Jeremy's paper airplane flew 7 feet 9 inches. Macy's paper airplane flew 87 inches. Macy said her airplane flew further? Is she correct? Explain how you know.
Macy is incorrect - 7 feet 9 inches is a total of 93 inches so Jeremy's airplane flew 6 inches further than Macy's did.
Molly's photo album has a total of 97 pictures. Each page of the album holds 6 pictures. How many pages can Molly fill? Will there be any pictures left?
Molly can fill 16 pages with 1 picture left over.
At President Lincoln's inauguration in 1861, the newspaper headlines stated there were about 30,000 people in attendance. If the newspaper rounded to the nearest thousand, what is the largest number and smallest number of people who could have been there?
Largest: 30,499
Smallest: 29,500
Mrs. Smith bought some orange juice. Each member of her family drank 2/3 cup for breakfast. There are 5 people in her family. How many cups of orange juice did they drink?
Her family drank 3 and 1/3 cups of juice.
Andrew and Sam ran in a relay race. Andrew had a time of 8.4 seconds. Sam had a time of 11.38 seconds. Together, how long did it take them to complete the race? Record your answer as a fraction and as a decimal.
Fraction: 19 and 78/100
Decimal: 19.78 seconds
Lemonade costs $1.25 per quart. If Tim bought 2 gallons of lemonade, how much did he spend?
Tim spent $10.00
114 pencils come in a box. If 4 teachers share 6 boxes of pencils equally, how many pencils will each teacher receive? Will there be any pencils left over? If so, how many?
Each teacher will receive 171 pencils and there will not be any pencils left over.