1. Each of the 18 students brought 6 cans to the food drive. How many cans of food were collected

2. Last Saturday Jen dug 42 dandelions out of the lawn and was paid 5 cents per plant. The previous Saturday she dug 60 plants, and the Saturday before that she dug 33 dandelions. On average, how many plants did she dig each week

3. According to the pie chart, what percent of Zach’s day is spent on eating, chores, and recreation?

4. Suppose Eva has 12 3/4 pounds of flour. The day’s baking will require triple that amount. How much flour will Eva need

5. Jacob divided the sum of 6 and -2 into the difference of 22 and 10. What was his answer

6. It took Morgan 90 minutes to mow and edge the lawn. How many hours is this

7. Add:  _______ (decimal answer).

8. A hexagonal plot of land measures 280 feet long on a side. If you use grass seed at a rate of 50 pounds per acre, how many pounds of grass seed will be needed to seed the entire plot? The area of a hexagon can be found using the formula , where a is the length of a side.

9. On a floor plan drawn at a scale of 1:100, the area of a rectangular room is . What is the actual area of the room?

10. Carina consigns her children's outgrown clothing at a local consignment shop that awards her 40% of the total sales price. She uses $28 from the proceeds to purchase new clothing for her children and goes home with $64 in cash. How much did her children's old clothing sell for

11. Lucy opened a roll of dimes and counted seven dollars.
How many dimes is this

12. Including tax, Jon’s total cost at the theater came to $17.83. If he paid with a $20 bill, how much change should he receive

13. The four siblings each spent ¼ of an hour cleaning their rooms. How much time did they spend altogether

14. In the 1600’s, Galileo Galilei studied the motion of pendulums and discovered that the period of a pendulum, the time it takes to complete one full swing, is a function of the square root of the length of its string: , where L is the length of the string and g is the acceleration due to gravity.  Consider two pendulums released from the same pivot point and at the same angle, . Pendulum 1 has a mass of 100 g, while Pendulum 2 has a mass of 200 g. If Pendulum 1 has a period four times the period of Pendulum 2, what is true of the lengths of the pendulums’ strings?

15. If Sara can read 15 pages in 10 minutes, how long will it take her to read 45 pages

16. A certain exam has 30 questions. A student gets 1 point for each question he gets right and loses half a point for a question he answers incorrectly; he neither gains nor loses any points for a question left blank. If C is the number of questions a student gets right and B is the number of questions he leaves blank, which of the following represents his score on the exam

17. A five-pound bag of tangerines is $6.95 and a three-pound bag of navel oranges is $4.50. Alyssa needs 15 pounds of the cheaper fruit. How much will she pay

18. A charity organization is preparing a fundraising dinner. The goal is to raise $27,000. They must pay costs of $1,000 to rent the hall for the evening, plus $2,500 in wages for staff and $25.00 per plate of food served. If tickets to the dinner cost $150, how many tickets must the organization sell in order to reach their goal

19. David has a board that is 10 and a half feet long. He needs a piece that is 8 feet and 10 inches for a project. How much should he cut off his board

20. A can has a radius of 1.5 inches and a height of 3 inches. Which of the following best represents the volume of the can

21. Chan receives a bonus from his job. He pays 30% in taxes, gives 30% to charity, and uses another 25% to pay off an old debt. He has $600 remaining from his bonus. What was the total amount of Chan’s bonus

22. Sharon was multiplying a recipe by ½ to get a smaller batch. What decimal should she multiply by each measurement

23. Lucy was given the following problem: . She lined up the numbers by their final digit as shown below and obtained an answer of 2.291. What was her mistake?

	2.	1	3	5
+		1	5.	6
	2.	2	9	1

 

24. Matt was picking plums to fill baskets. His first basket held 27 plums, his second basket held 24 plums, and his third basket held 31 plums. How many plums did Matt pick

25. An Olympic sprinter can run a mile in approximately 4 minutes. On average, how fast must he run to achieve this time? Give your answer in kilometers per hour