Problem Solving

The cafeteria has 217 pounds of apples. Each pie they make needs 3 pounds of apples. Any apples not used will be placed on the teacher food area. How many pounds are placed on the teacher area?

• 1 pound

• 3 pounds

• 2 pounds

• Zero pounds

The Hawkeye Soccer team scored a total of 15 points. Four players scored 2 points each. How many points id the other players on the team score?

• 6 points

• 9 points

• 7 points

• 8 points

Hector sold 72 magazines. Janet sold 6 magazines. How many times as many magazines did Hector sell than Janet?

• 9 times more

• 12 times more

• 66 times more

• 8 times more

One turkey drinks 346 mL of water a day. There are 7 turkeys on a farm. How much water did all the turkeys drink in one day?

• 50 mL

• 49 mL

• 2,422 mL

• 2,322 mL

You read 5 times longer this week than you did last week. If you read for 20 minutes this week, how long did you read last week?

• 125 minutes

• 15 minutes

• 100 minutes

• 5 minutes

One dime has a width of 17 mm. Rosa lined up 64 dimes end to end on her table. What was the combined width of all of her dimes?

• 1,000 mm

• 80 mm

• 1,088 mm

• 81 mm

Mrs. Roberts baked 62 chocolate chip cookes and 77 sugar cookies. She is going to box the cookies 9 to a tin. She will give the tins to teachers at Gwin Oaks. How many teachers will receive a tin of cookies?

• 15 teachers

• 3 teachers

• 16 teachers

• 14 teachers

Mrs. Davis has 5 times less seashells than Mrs. Capps. If Mrs. Capps collected 446 seashells, ABOUT how many did Mrs. Davis collect?

• about 65 seashells

• about 75 seashells

• about 100 seashells

• about 50 seashells

One half-dollar weighs 11 grams. Tracey has 86 half-dollars in her piggy bank. About how muh do all of her half dollars weigh?

• about 9,000 grams

• about 100 grams

• about 900 grams

• about 90 grams

Nick paid $124 for 6 games. About how much did Nick pay for each game?

• about $15 per game

• about $30 per game

• about $20 per game

• about $21 per game