Volume & Powers of 10
Coleman is using a paper bag to go trick or treating. The dimensions are 14 inches by 6 inches by 20 inches. What is the volume of his bag?
1,680 cubic inches
Austen bought a Mario costume for $24.99 and his brother Sawyer bought a Luigi costume for $19.99. How much did they spend in all?
$44.98
Zack grew a huge pumpkin. It weighed 145.625 pounds. Round that number to the nearest tenth and hundredth.
tenth - 145.6
hundredth - 145.63
6 is in the tenths place. The 2 is not big enough (less than 5) to bump up the 6. So, it stays a 6.
2 is in the hundredths place. The 5 is big enough to bump up the 2. So, it will turn into a 3.
This year, Lorenzo’s family doubled last year’s corn harvest. If Lorenzo’s family harvested 177,124 pounds of corn last year, how much corn did they harvest this year?
354,248 pounds of corn
Doubled means x2
177,124 x 2
Alexandra grew giant pumpkins. Her largest one weighed 978.632 pounds. What place value is the 3 in? What is the value of the digit 3?
The 3 is in the hundredths place.
The 3's value is 3 hundredths or 0.03
In Isabella’s pumpkin field, each row has 10¹ pumpkins. There are 10² rows in the field. How many pumpkins are in the whole field?
1,000 pumpkins
Savannah Harmis brought in a yellow leaf. It weighed 0.89 ounces. Ashley brought in a red leaf. It weighed 0.91 ounces. How much heavier was the red leaf?
0.02 ounces
Kollyn’s pumpkin weighed six and forty-five hundredths pounds. Lydia’s pumpkin weighed six and fifty-four thousandths pounds. Write an inequality showing how the numbers are related. (>, <, =)
6.45 > 6.054
Kollyn - 6.45, Lydia - 6.054
The tenths place is the first place value that is different. 4 tenths is greater than 0 tenths.
Jason and his family carved 5 pumpkins. He found 163 seeds in each pumpkin. How many total seeds did he find?
815 seeds
163 x 5
During a fall festival, Mr. Alwine participated in an apple pie eating contest. He won the contest with a record time of 14.271 seconds. Write Mr. Alwine’s time in word form.
fourteen and two hundred seventy-one thousandths
Alexandra got 4.3 x 102 pieces of candy during the Fall Festival parade. How many pieces of candy did she get in standard form?
430 pieces of candy
Rowan bought 6.32 pounds of red apples and 7.41 pounds of green Granny Smith apples. How many more pounds of Granny Smith apples than red apples did she buy?
Rowan bought 1.09 pounds more Granny Smith apples than red apples.
The list below shows the cost of several fall decoration items. Ailin claims that two items cost the same when rounded to the nearest tenth. Which 2 items prove that her statement is true?
Pumpkin - $6.02
Corn Stalks - $5.90
Banners - $5.95
Wreath - $6.09
Pumpkin and Banners
Pumpkin - 6.0
Corn Stalks - 5.9
Banners - 6.0 (the 5 in the hundredths will bump the 9 to a 10 which will bump the 5 whole to 6.)
Wreath - 6.1
Zane bought 15 bags of candy to share with his soccer team. If there were 135 pieces of candy in each bag, how many pieces of candy did he have in all?
2,025 pieces of candy
135 x 15
Lydia and her mom made twenty-six and three hundred forty-seven thousandths pounds of apple butter. Write that number in standard form. Circle the digit in the tenths and underline the digit in the thousandths place.
26.347
Tenths - 3
Thousandths - 7
Austin is stacking hay bales to build a small fall display. Each hay bale measures 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 1 foot high. If the total volume of all the hay bales used is 160 cubic feet, how many hay bales did Austin use?
20 hay bales
(Each hay bale is 8 cubic feet. 160/8)
Savannah Merryman and Caia went to Maize Quest. If they each spent $15.65 on tickets, how much change will they get from a $50.00 bill?
$18.70
Both their tickets cost $31.30. Then subtract from 50.00.
Connor has played fall baseball for 3 years. Each year, Connor had a different batting average.
0.186, 0.367 and 0.019
Put the averages in order from least to greatest.
0.019, 0.186, 0.367
Hershey’s snack-size milk chocolate bars are sold in packs of eight. If Kollyn buys 12 packs and divides the chocolate bars equally into six piles, how many chocolate bars would be in each pile?
16 bars in each pile
12x8 = 96
96/6
Isabella weighed her bag of candy. It weighed (8x1) + (7 x 1/100) + (3 x 1/1000) pounds! Write that number in standard form.
8.073
Jason wants to create a creepy Halloween display. He has 173 cubic inches of monster slime. Will that fill an aquarium that is 10 inches long, 2 inches wide, and 6 inches tall? If so, how much slime does he have leftover?
Yes, Jason has enough slide to fill the aquarium. He has 53 cubic inches leftover.
The aquarium is 10x2x6 = 120 cubic inches
173-120=53
Zane made fruit punch to serve at a fall party. He mixed together these ingredients to make the punch:
4.5 gallons of pineapple juice
1.26 gallons of orange juice
3.85 gallons of lemonade
He has a punch bowl that holds 10 gallons of juice. Will his ingredients overflow the punch bowl?
No, the ingredients will only make 9.61 gallons. His bowl will hold 10 gallons. 9.61 is less than 10.
Maddie was decorating pumpkins. She had four pumpkins that weighed 6.083, 6.8, 6.25 and 6.253 pounds. Put the weights in order from greatest to least.
6.8, 6.253, 6.25, 6.083
Lorenzo is setting up for his annual Monster Bash Halloween party! He puts out 7 bowls of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Each bowl has 121 pieces. He also puts out 5 bowls of Twix. Each bowl has 93 pieces. How many more pieces of Reese’s than Twix does Lorenzo put out for his party?
Lorenzo has 382 more Reese's than Twix.
Reese's - 7 x 121 = 847
Twix - 5 x 93 = 465
847-465
Caia had 128,546 sprinkles on her amazing donut costume.
The digit 8 in the ____________ place is worth _________ times the
4 in the _________ place.
thousands
200 (8,000/40)
tens