Formative Assessment: Apply math skills to solve word problems

Sarah's class is having a bake sale. She bakes 7 trays of cookies with 8 cookies on each tray. If she sells half of all the cookies, how many cookies does she have left?

• 24 cookies

• 28 cookies

• 30 cookies

• 32 cookies

Tom has a piece of ribbon that is 1 meter long. He cuts it into 4 equal pieces. His friend gives him another piece that is half the size of his original ribbon. What is the total length of ribbon Tom has now?

• 1 meter

A bakery makes 24 cupcakes every hour. If they work for 6 hours and sell cupcakes to 8 different customers who each buy an equal amount, how many cupcakes does each customer get?

• 12 cupcakes

• 18 cupcakes

• 24 cupcakes

• 36 cupcakes

• 1 ounce

• 2 ounces

• 3 ounces

• 4 ounces

A school orders 72 pizzas for a party. If they are equally divided among 9 classrooms, and each classroom then divides their pizzas equally among 24 students, how many pizzas does each student get?

• 18 apples

• 20 apples

• 22 apples

• 24 apples

A toy store receives a shipment of 120 toys. They put 5 toys in each display box. If they fill 4 shelves with an equal number of display boxes, how many display boxes are on each shelf?

• 5 boxes

• 6 boxes

• 7 boxes

• 8 boxes

A rectangular playground is 45 feet long and 20 feet wide. The school wants to put a fence around it, leaving a 3-foot wide path inside the fence. What will be the area of the path?

• 234 square feet

• 351 square feet

• 390 square feet

• 468 square feet

Jack has three types of coins in his piggy bank: quarters, dimes, and nickels. He has twice as many dimes as quarters, and three times as many nickels as dimes. If he has 12 quarters, what is the total value of all his coins?

• $6.60

• $7.20

• $7.80

• $8.40

• 3 pens

• 4 pens

• 5 pens

• 6 pens