Dave lives farthest from Denver; Sally 2nd farthest
1. Sally lives 128 miles from Denver. Dave lives 114 miles from Sally’s house Dave lives the farthest distance from Denver. Mark lives 235 miles from Denver. Which list orders the distances, in miles from Denver, from least to greatest?
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4. Each month 26,018 copies of a magazine are sold. About how many copies are sold in a year?
5. Melanie lives 1/8 of a mile from school. Micah lives 5/9 of a mile from school. Tamara lives .83 miles from school. List the distances from school in order from greatest to least.
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9. There are 96 students on your team. 54 of them have blue eyes. What is the fraction of blue eyed students to all students in simplest form?
10. An adult male elephant weighs 5340 pounds. An adult female elephant weighs 3670 pounds. Rounded to the nearest hundred, ABOUT how much more does the male elephant weigh than the female elephant?
11. The XBOX 360 games Madden ’08, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band are on sale at Circuit City. Madden “08 is on sale for $34.99, Guitar Hero is on sale for $54.99, and Rock Band is on sale for $43.89. About how much less is Madden ’08 than Guitar Hero?
12. Bricklayers used 3,281 bricks on steps in front of the new bank. If they used 97 bricks for each step, ABOUT how many steps did they make?
13. There are 33 desks in each classroom. There are 118 classrooms. How many desks are there in all?
14. Miguel bought 4.8 pounds of apples at Kroger. If he spent $6, how much did each pound cost?
15. You use .8 gallons of gas to get to school in the morning and back home in the afternoon. How many trips can you make on 19.2 gallons of gas?
16. Your friend buys 6 tickets to the Riverkings hockey game. He spent $38.70. If you give him $7 for you ticket, how much change will you get back?
20. What operation would you use to solve this problem? Molly spent $25 on a game. The week before it was $43. What was the amount of change in the price?
23. This is an example of what property? 2 (x + 4) = 2x + 2(4)
24. What would not be affected by adding 35 to the data set? (range, mode, median, mean) 43, 57, 43, 64, 45
25. What is the greatest common factor (GCF) of 264 and 192?
26. Napkins are sold in packages of 8 and plates are sold in packages of 6. What is the least number of packages of plates and napkins that must be bought to have an equal number of plates and napkins?
27. Cara has 42 apples and 36 oranges. If she wants to put the fruit into bags with each bag having the same number of apples and the same number of oranges, what is the GREATEST number of bags she can make? How many apples and how many oranges would be in each bag?
28. Caroline sold 3 1/5 pound packages of cookie dough for a fund raiser. If she sold 18 packages, how many pounds of cookie dough did she sell?
29. A carpenter cuts piece of lumber that is 8/9 meters long into 7 equal pieces. How long is each piece of wood?
30. You ride your bike 2.4 miles to the park. At the park there is a bike trail that is 5.8 miles long. You go around the trail 3 times and then ride home. What is the total distance you rode on your bike?
31. You put 4/5 cup of kool aid into a thermos. You drink ¼ of that. Later you put another 2/3 cup of kool aid into the thermos. How much kool aid is in the thermos?
32. ¾ of the earth’s surface is covered with water. What percent of the earth’s surface is water?
38. True or False: To divide a fraction, you must multiply by the reciprocal.
39. Triangle HJK has side lengths of 12m, 8m, 4m. If triangle abc is similar to HJK, could its sides measure 3m, 2m, and 1m? Explain why or why not.
40. Skylar’s basketball team outscored it’s opponents 2:1 this season. If they scored an average of 24 points a game, what was the average scored by their opponents?
41. 5 of the Foo Fighters first 8 singles hit number one. If they still have this ratio of number one singles to singles released, how many of their 56 singles have hit number 1?