3rd Grade PSSA Review 1 - from 2013-14 released items

Mrs. Jackson has 47 boxes of crayons. There are 8 crayons in each box. To estimate the total number of crayons, she uses the steps shown below.

• round 47 to the nearest ten

• multiply the new number by 8

What is Mrs. Jackson’s estimate of the total number of crayons?

• 320

• 400

• 450

• 580

George bought 9 cases of bottled water. Each case had 18 bottles of water in it.

To estimate the number of bottles of water he bought, George rounded 18 to the nearest ten and then multiplied that number by 9.

What is George’s estimate of the number of bottles of water he bought?

• 90

• 180

• 209

• 290

Kelly is planting groups of seeds.

She places 4 seeds into each group.

She plants 22 groups of carrot seeds and 38 groups of lettuce seeds.

How many total seeds does Kelly plant?

• 240

• 200

• 300

• 640

Three students were comparing how many times they each jumped on a trampoline. Jorge jumped 345 times.

Keisha jumped 356 times.

LeVar jumped more times than Jorge and fewer times than Keisha.

When each student’s total was rounded to the nearest hundred, Jorge’s total and LeVar’s total were the same.

Which value could be the number of times LeVar jumped on the trampoline?

• 305

• 347

• 350

• 362

The table below shows the number of loaves of bread baked at a bakery on three days.

Which list shows the days in order of total number of loaves of bread baked from least to greatest?

• Monday Tuesday Wednesday

• Tuesday Monday Wednesday

• Wednesday Tuesday Monday

• Tuesday Wednesday Monday

In Sierra’s third-grade class, 3/8 of the students are boys. Which number line has a point on the fraction of the students that are boys?

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Bill and Cindy ate some pieces from the same pie.

Bill ate 3/8 of the pie.

Cindy ate 1/8 of the pie.

Which statement is true?

• Bill ate more pie than Cindy.

• Cindy ate more pie than Bill.

• Bill and Cindy ate the whole pie.

• Bill and Cindy ate the same amount of pie.

Fatima drew the figure shown below and shaded part of it.

Which fraction is equal to the amount Fatima shaded?

• 2/10

• 2/8

• 2/6

• 3/1

There are 8 players on a basketball team. There are 4 girls on the team.

What fraction of the players on the team are girls?

• 1/5

• 1/4

• 1/3

• 1/2

Lou bought 6 doughnuts.

There were 2 doughnuts with sprinkles. Which fraction represents the doughnuts Lou bought that had sprinkles?

• 1/5

• 1/3

• 2/4

• 6/10