Word Problems
The owner added a second floor to his house. The second floor is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide with ceilings that are 9 feet tall. What is the volume of the second floor?
13,500 cubic feet
5.7*10^1
57
12.6*8.7
109.62
Diane played a card game called Hearts. Her scores on 8 hands of the game were:
1 point,1 point,2 points,1 point,2 points,4 points,3 points,2 points
What was the mean score for all of her hands?
2 points
Roger's Dessert offers its customers 8 dessert options. What is the mode of the set of prices? The prices are:
$2.00
$3.00
$4.00
$2.00
$5.00
$5.00
$5.00
$4.00
$5.00
A rectangular one-story house covers an area of 3,700 square feet. The ceiling is 8 feet high. What is the volume of the house?
29,600 cubic feet
9.3*10^3
9,300
53.7*98.3
5,278.71
What is the mean?
14,15,14,15,12
14
For 6 nights, Lacey tracked the number of pages she read in her book before going to bed:
6 pages, 5 pages, 5 pages, 8 pages, 9 pages
7 pages
What is the range of numbers?
4 pages
A camel is carrying a pack that weighs 294 kg. A traveler adds a piece of straw to the pack that weighs 370 mg. What is the total weight of the camel's pack now? (1 kg = 1,000,000 mg)
294.00037 kg or 294,000,370 mg
12.8 div 10^2
.128
8.6 div 3
2.86
What is the mean?
1, 2, 8 ,10, 2, 0, 5, 7,1
4
Brian sold 5 old books in online auctions. The winning bids were:
$7.00, $6.00, $4.00, $6.00, $2.00
What was the median winning bid?
$6.00
Marissa is making necklaces for her friends. She has string for each necklace that is 1.3 meters in length. She folds the bottom of the string up to make each necklace 8 centimeters shorter. How long is each necklace after Marissa has shortened them? (Hint* How many centimeters are in a meter?)
122 centimeters or 1.22 meters
158.3 div 10^4
.01583
6.3 div 0.9
7
Find the mean:
17 , 17 , 11 , 10 , 1 , 20 , 17 , 17
13.75
What is the median?
5, 2, 2, 1, 6,1,8,3, 7, 5,6, 9
5
Vanessa has a fish tank that is 14 inches long and 18 inches wide. She filled the tank so that the water is 12 inches high. Then she placed a sand castle decoration in the tank and the water lever rose to 13 inches. What is the volume of the sand castle?
252 inches cubed
1056.387*10^3 and 1056.387 div10^3
What is the difference of answers?
1056385.943613
16.32 div 1.36
12
Find the mean:
12 , 18 , 5 , 8 , 15 , 2 , 9 , 17 , 1
9.66
Find the median, mode, and range of this set of numbers:
45, 37, 17, 93, 67, 75, 33, 68, 93
mode 93
range 76
median 67