Problem Solving

A large box contains 18 small boxes and each small box contains 25 chocolate bars. How many chocolate bars are in the large box?

• 400

• 470

• 450

• 500

It takes John 25 minutes to walk to the car park and 45 to drive to work. At what time should he get out of the house in order to get to work at 9:00 a.m.?

• 7:50 a.m.

• 8:00 a.m.

• 8:15 a.m.

• 7:30 a.m.

Kim can walk 4 kilometers in one hour. How long does it take Kim to walk 18 kilometers?

• 4 hours 10 minutes

• 3 hours 50 minutes

• 4 hours 30 minutes

• 4 hours 4 minutes

A factory produced 2300 TV sets in its first year of production. 4500 sets were produced in its second year and 500 more sets were produced in its third year than in its second year. How many TV sets were produced in three years?

• 12,600 TV sets

• 11,300 TV sets

• 11,800 TV sets

• 11,900 TV sets

Linda bought 3 notebooks at $1.20 each; a box of pencils at $1.50 and a box of pens at $1.70. How much did Linda spend?

• $7.20

• $6.80

• $8.40

• $9.60

Tom and Bob have a total of 49 toys. If Bob has 5 more toys than Tom, how many toys does each one have?

• Tom: 22, Bob: 27

• Tom: 21, Bob: 28

• Tom: 23, Bob: 26

• Tom: 20, Bob: 29

John can eat a quarter of a pizza in one minute. How long does it take John to eat one pizza and a half?

• 7 minutes

• 5 minutes

• 5 minutes 30 seconds

• 6 minutes

John can eat a sixth of a pizza in two minutes. It takes 3 minutes for Billy to eat one quarter of the same pizza. If John and Billy start eating one pizza each, who will finish first?

• Bob

• John

• Same time

• Neither - both will get sick from too much pizza.

John read the quarter of the time that Tom read. Tom read only two-fifth of the time that Sasha read. Sasha read twice as long as Mike. If Mike read 5 hours, how long did John read?

• 1 hour 30 minutes

• 2 hours

• 40 minutes

• 1 hour

Jim, Carla and Tommy are members of the same family. Carla is 5 years older than Jim. Tommy is 6 years older than Carla. The sum of their three ages is 31 years. How old is each one them?

• Jim: 5 years , Carla: 10 years , Tommy: 16 years

• Jim: 4 years , Carla: 9 years , Tommy: 18 years

• Jim: 6 years , Carla: 8 years , Tommy: 15 years

• Jim: 6 years , Carla: 12 years , Tommy: 13 years