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Take Your Chances
100
What is the literary device used below: The thunder rocked the house all afternoon.
personification
100
What expression best describes this pattern? 11, 22, 33, 44, 55 ...
n + 11
100
Which organizer can you use to write a report about fish?
four square
100
During the past 2 weeks, a total of 378 cartons of juice were sold in the school cafeteria. Each carton costs $0.75. Find the total cost of the juice that was sold?
$283.50
100
Veronica can type 28 words per minute. At this rate, how many words can Veronica type in 5.5 minutes?
158 words
200
What is the literary device used below: The cat bought the farm when it ate from Mr. Hample's trash can.
idiom
200
Create a pattern that divides by 2 and adds 4.
Possible response: 16, 12, 10, 9
200
Which organizer should you draw to compare and contrast?
Venn Diagram
200
Allison lives 1 mile from the park. She walked at a rate of 2 miles per hour directly from her house to the park. If Allison left her house at 1:00 P.M., at what time did she arrive at the park?
1:30
200
At a school, there are 704 desks to place into 22 classrooms. If the same number of desks is placed in each classroom, how many desks will be in each room?
32 desks in each room
300
What is the definition of simile?
A sentence that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
300
Deena learned the population of her town is 5,342. What is 5,342 rounded to the nearest hundred?
5,300
300
Draw the organizer Mrs. Keller showed you for answering an extended response question in reading.
See Mrs. Keller's drawing...
300
Ana is 12 years old. She is twice as old as Marco. Lizzy is half as old as Marco. How old is Lizzy?
Lizzy is 3 years old.
300
To earn money for summer camp, James walks dogs and helps paint houses. He earns $6 for each dog he walks and $4 for each hour he helps paint houses. James needs to earn $60 for his trip to summer camp. Determine a combination of the number of dogs James needs to walk and the number of hours he needs to paint to earn exactly $60. Show all your work and explain why you did each step.
Answers vary ... Possible response: Walk 5 dogs ($30), and paint for 8 hours ($32). $30 + $32 = $62 ... $62 is enough money to pay for summer camp.
400
What is the literary device used below: The dry river bed was a snake that slithered into the horizon.
metaphor
400
Which is the closest estimate of 11 × 287?
3,000
400
How can you keep your scrap paper organized for the math test so that other problems don't confuse your work?
parking lot paper
400
Bonnie and Saleem are playing a game where they earn points. The pattern below shows the number of points Bonnie has after each of the first five rounds of the game. 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, ... Which rule explains the pattern of Bonnie's points?
The pattern is multiply 2.
400
A waiter receives a tip that equals 15% of a customer’s bill. If the bill is $20, how much is the tip?
$3.00
500
What literary devices are used below: The big banana balked at being picked.
onomatopeoia AND personification
500
Four students simplify the expression below. 6 + 4 × 5 ÷ 2 Aimee's solution is 25, Dario's solution is 46, Jimmy's solution is 13, and Lani's solution is 16. Who simplified the expression correctly?
Lani
500
Which organizer would we use to write a descriptive paragraph about monkeys?
web
500
It takes Joe 10 minutes to skate from home to school. He lives 2 miles from the school house. If it takes 35 minutes for Joe to skate to the park, how far away is the park?
7 miles
500
Draw a scalene triangle, then show the 3 transformations.
See Mrs. Keller's drawing ...