Problem Solving 1
Add carefully! 38.5 + 6.37 = ?
44.87
Mrs. Rodriquez is shopping for groceries. She needs to buy 3 boxes of macaroni and cheese. Single boxes cost $6.87 each. Packs with 3 boxes cost $12.48. How much money will Mrs. Rodriquez save if she buys the three-box pack instead of 3 single boxes?
$8.13
Taryn's art club needs to raise $318.00 for an upcoming museum trip. So far, they have raised $273.04. They are out of time, and the 8 club members must split the remaining cost. How much will each club member pay?
$5.62
Luana is making a recipe that uses 2 7/8 cups of sugar. She has 1 1/4 cups of sugar in her sugar bowl and 7 1/2 cups of sugar in the canister. How many cups of sugar will Luana have left after she makes her recipe?
5 7/8
A babysitter earns $165 each day for keeping several children. If she babysat the children for 23 days in October, how much money did she earn?
$3,795
Marcus lost his swimming cap and goggles at his last swim meet. He purchased a new cap and goggles set for $23.19 at the sporting goods store. If he gave the cashier $40.00, how much change did he get back?
$16.81
Reduce the fraction 18/27 to its simplest form.
2/3
Lily is making bracelets for 14 friends and herself. Each bracelet will need 48 beads. She already has 4 packs with 150 beads each. How many more beads will Lily need?
120
Alana is using fabric to make a Halloween costume. The black fabric was 2.75 yards long. The orange fabric was 3.2 yards long. She needs at least 10 yards of fabric for her costume. How many more yards does Alana need to make her costume?
4.05 yards
A motorcycle weighs about 250 pounds. A school bus weighs about 25,000 pounds. How many times greater is the weight of a school bus than the weight of a motorcycle?
100
Cathy bought 2 notebooks that were $2.25 each, and a box of markers that was $3.68. What is the total cost of her notebooks and markers?
$8.18
Bryson measured the length of one side of his square bedroom. The side was 5 1/2 yards. What is the area of Bryson's bedroom?
30 1/4 square yards
There are 1,860 fifth graders participating in Math Olympiads. They are put into teams with 7 boys and 8 girls on each team. How many teams will be created?
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124
Amalia’s new puppy weighs 7,305 grams. How many kilograms does the new puppy weigh? (Note: 1 kilogram = 1000 grams
7.305
Sarah had 2 containers of liquid for a Science experiment. The first container had 34.8 milliliters. The second container had 52.93 milliliters. Before she mixed the two liquids together, she spilled 12 milliliters out of the second container. What is the total amount of liquid she has after mixing both liquids together?
75.73
Kayatta has a Chromebook and an iphone. Her Chromebook weighs 1.04 kilograms. Her iPhone weighs 0.177 kilograms. How many more kilograms does Kayatta’s Chromebook weigh than her iphone?
0.863
The florist ordered 72 daisies to sell in her shop. 1/4 of the daisies are white and the rest were yellow. How many yellow daisies did the florist have to sell?
54
The Boy Scouts have 4,872 bottles of water to divide equally among 24 shelters. How many bottles of water will each shelter get?
203
A fifth grade class received a large donation of pencils at the beginning of the school year.
• The school received 63 packs of 15 pencils.
• There are 27 students in the class.
If each student uses the same number of the donated pencils during the school year, how many pencils will each student use?
35
Logan ate 20 M&Ms, and Mara ate 1 M&M.
· There are 17.5 grams of sugar in 20 M&Ms.
· There are 0.875 grams of sugar in 1 M&M.
How many more grams of sugar did Logan eat than Mara?
16.625
Ms. Greene bought 9 gallons of orange juice for a big breakfast with her friends and family. Each gallon of orange juice cost $2.43. How much money did she spend on orange juice altogether?
$21.87
Lina has 1/2 quart of orange juice. She wants to split it so that she drinks an equal amount at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. How much of a quart can she drink at each meal?
1/6
A group of 6 friends ordered 4 pizzas. If each friend eats an equal share of the pizzas, how much pizza will each friend eat?
2/3
1/3 of the fifth-grade students at Panthers Elementary are in the school math club. 3/4 of the fifth-grade math club members are girls. What fraction of the fifth-grade students at Panthers Elementary are girls who are in the math club?
1/4
Juan drank 2.5 apple juice boxes for breakfast. Each juice box had 0.16 liters of juice. How many liters of juice did Juan drink for breakfast?
0.4