A Whole Lot
At the farm, the goats are fed 1/2 of a barrel of corn each day. The chickens are fed 1/2 as much corn as the goats.
How many barrels of corn are the chickens fed each day?
1/4 barrels of corn
Solve.
6(3s - 2.5 - 5s)
-12s - 15
Riley bought 30 fall festival tickets for his friends and paid $150. How much did each ticket cost?
$5 each
12 students play on the school's basketball team and 36 students play on the football team. What is the ratio of basketball players to football players in simplest form?
1:3
Vanessa sells 65 crab cakes every day. How many cakes will she sell in 20 days?
At the Bronx Zoo, 3/5 of the animals are primates. Of the primates, 3/4 are monkeys.
1. What fraction of the animals at the zoo are monkeys?
2. What fraction of the animals at the zoo are NOT monkeys?
9/20 are monkeys.
11/20 are NOT monkeys.
Solve.
2 (3 + 4y +5)
8y + 16
A total of 108 students participated in the Spring ballet recital. If 12 students were part of each ballet performance, how many ballet recitals took place in all?
9 ballet recitals
The ratio of students getting an "A" in math to students getting a"B" is 1:2. If 22 students received an "A", how many received a "B"?
44 students received a "B"
Michelle has 21 photos on her phone. If Brandon has 15 times more photos than Michelle does, how many photos does he have?
315 photos
Of the students on the track team, 4/5 do jumping events. Of the students who do jumping events, 3/5 do the long jump.
What fraction of the students on the track team do the long jump?
What fraction of the students on the track team do NOT do the long jump?
12/25 do the long jump.
13/25 do NOT do the long jump.
Solve.
-9 (9 + 6n - 4)
-54n - 36
Marian is having a huge party. She made 1080 bite-sized pretzels. If one serving is equal to 12 pretzels, how many servings of bite-sized pretzels was Marian able to prepare?
90 servings
60 students are in first grade, but only 30 students are in kindergarten. What is the ratio of first graders to kindergarteners in simplest form?
2:1
If a basket contains 34 strawberries, how many strawberries would 19 such baskets contain?
646 strawberries
A baker is making croissants. He has 18 pounds of dough. Each croissant is made from 1/8 pounds of dough. How many croissants can he make?
144 croissants
Solve.
3/10 (4m - 8) + 9m
10 1/5m - 2 2/5
Bob's Bakery is famous for its oatmeal raisin cookies. If bakers can place 12 cookies on a tray at a time, how many trays will they need to prepare 2,760 oatmeal cookies this week?
230 trays
Lucia ate 15 cookies in 45 minutes. How many cookies did she eat per minute?
3 cookies per minute
Matt sold 528 sets of dishes in a year. If each set contained 14 pieces, how many pieces were sold in all?
7392 pieces in all
Each batch of cupcake mix requires 1/3 of a cup of milk. According to the recipe, the batch can make 12 small cupcakes or 8 large cupcakes. If Emma makes a batch of large cupcakes, how much milk is used for each cupcake?
1/24 cup of milk
Solve.
2.25 - 2 (7.5 - 4h)
8h - 12.75
Alice has 1,248 apples and wants to distribute them equally to her 32 friends. How many apples will each friend receive?
39 apples each
Joe paid $12 for 2 pounds of apples. How much did he pay per pound?
$6 (what a rip off!)
A salesman sells 972 pieces of furniture. If he gets 23 reward points for each piece sold, how many points does he earn?
22,356 points