Problem Solving 3

Jana received $5 a week for her allowance. Every other week she earns an extra $4 for babysitting her cousins. If she saves all the money she earns, how much will she have in 8 weeks?

• $19
• $28
• $33
• $56

Mia drove 5 miles to pick up her friend Claire. Together they drove 11 miles to go to the movies. After the movies, the two girls drove 7 miles back to Mia’s house. What is the total distance that Mia traveled?

• 13 miles 
• 16 miles
• 18 miles
• 23 miles

Carla has 6 baseball cards. Ed and Carla together have 16 baseball cards. Judith and Ed together have 25 baseball cards. How many baseball cards does Judith have? 

• 6
• 9
• 15
• 20

Aryeh had 9 rows of 5 pegs each on a game board. He removed 3 rows of pegs. Which is a correct way to find how many pegs were left on the board?

• Multiply 9 times 5 and then add 3 to the answer
• Add 9 and 3 and then multiply the answer by 5 
• Multiply 9 times 5 and then subtract 3 from the answer
• Subtract 3 from 9 and then multiply the answer by 5 

Mrs. Key’s class planned to make cascarones, confetti-filled eggshells, for the spring fair. The class collected 156 dozen eggshells for this project. Which expression will give the answer closest to the number of eggshells the class collected?

• 58 divided by 12
• 1600 divided by 12
• (10 x 160) + (2 x 160)
• (16 x 100) + (60 x 100)

On a field trip students are put into equal groups. There are 5 students in each group except for one group, which has 3 students. If the total number of students who went on the field trip is between 30 and 35, how many went on the field trip?

• 30
• 32
• 33
• 36

Jim drove 5 miles to work. Kari drove 3 times as many miles as Jim. Sondra drove 4 times as many miles as Kari. How many more miles did Sondra drive than Kari?

• 10
• 15
• 45
• 60

A building with 284 windows and 45 doors needed cleaning. A window-washer charged $9.00 per window to clean windows and completed half of the windows in one day. How much did the window washer earn that day?

• The window washer cleaned half of the windows.
• There were 284 windows that needed to be cleaned.
• There were 45 doors that needed to be cleaned.
• The window washer charged $9.00 per window.

Janet read that there are 468,945 people living in her city and the 4 other cities nearest her home combined. If each city has the same population, how many people live in each city?

• 93,789
• 93,799
• 93,803
• 94,189

A grocery store received a shipment of 5 cases of crackers. Each case contains 25 boxes of crackers. The store also has 8 boxes of crackers in stock. How many boxes of crackers does the store now have altogether?

• 165
• 133
• 125
• 11