5th Grade Word Problem Practice

Of the 95 children in 6th grade, 3/5 went to holiday parties. How many students went to holiday parties in all?

• 285 students
• 75 students
• 57 students
• 258 students

Amy has 72 sweets in a bag. She keeps ¼ of them for herself and shares the rest with friends. How many sweets will she give to her friends? 

• 72 sweets
• 54 sweets
• 18 sweets
• 4 sweets

30 people watched the soccer game last night. Tickets cost $2.75 each. Half of these fans bought a program at $1.50 each. How much money was collected altogether? 

• $82.50
• $22.50
• $125.00
• $105.00

An electrician has 6 feet of copper wire. He needs to cut the wire into pieces that are each 3/4 foot long. How many pieces of wire can he cut from the 6-foot wire

• 4   1/2
• 8
• 9  1/2 
• 10 

Eddie has 985 songs on his iPad. If Eddie divides his songs equally into 70 albums, how many songs will be in each album?

• 14 songs with 5 songs left over
• 15 songs with 0 left over
• 14 songs with 4 songs left over
• 14 songs with 0 left over

Degan has 617 students. Each class has between 28 and 32 students. Which of the following is a reasonable estimate of the number of classes in the school?

• 30
• 14
• 60
• 20

Sybil had three boxes of pencils.  Each box contains eight pencils.  Sybil divides all of the pencils evenly between four of her friends.  How many pencils does each of her friends get?

• 24
• 6
• 4 R 4

Suzy bought 2 pounds of grapes for $2.49 per pound and 3 muffins for $0.75 per muffin.  How much did she pay for the grapes and the muffins?

• $3.24

• $7.23
• $6.48
• $10.72

There are 13 episodes in the first season of Heartland and Every episode is 44.5 minutes long. If you watched every episode in season 1, how many minutes did you watch?

• 178

• 178.5

• 578.5

• 5785

Lou has to travel back and forth from New York City to Heartland. The flight takes her 2.5 hours. If she has to take this trip 14 times per month, how much time does she spend flying back and forth each month?

• 35.0

• 350

• 330

• 33.0