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- Jada keeps
Jada keeps bees on her farm. This morning, she collected 2 pounds of honey. She is putting the honey in jars to sell at her farm stand. Each jar holds 5/9 of a pound of honey. How many jars worth of honey does Jada have? - Six friends
Six friends who live inland decide to take a road trip to the closest beach, which is 661 1/2 kilometers away. They decided to share the driving equally. How many kilometers will each person have to drive - A man 15
A man owns a piece of land worth 0.6 million. He taxed in 3/4 of its value at the rate of ₱7.00 per 1000. How much is he paying for the tax on his property? - Water balloon
Tracy and her friends decided to have a water balloon fight! They got 20 water balloons and used 6 liters to fill them equally. How much water was in each balloon? Write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number.
- A container
A container with 2 1/2L of water is being poured into other containers that can hold 1 1/3L of water. Each container has to be filled, so how many L of water will the last container hold? - Smoothies
Kristin is making strawberry smoothies. She has 5 cups of yogurt; it takes 3/4 of a cup to make one smoothie. How many smoothies can she make? Write a number sentence that describes this situation. Then, draw a model to demonstrate your understanding. - A hill
Juan is walking up a hill at 130 3/4 feet above sea level when he kicks a pebble. If the pebble falls to the base of the hill, which is 18.5 feet below sea level, what is the vertical distance that the pebble fell? - Usain
Usain and Kyle rented a house together for 3 years. Usain paid more rent because he had a bigger room. They always split the rent at a ratio of 4:3. They paid £30247 in rent over this period. How much of this did Usain pay? - An Airbus
An Airbus A380 has one first-class section, one business-class section, and 4 economy-class sections. The first-class section of the Airbus A380 has 14 seats, 5/7 are being used. The business-class section has 64 seats. 5/16 is being used. Each Economy-cl
- Anneta
Anneta wants to buy a piece of land for farming; she wants to use 1/3 of the land to plant cocoa, 2/7 for a Palm plantation, and the rest for a vegetable plantation. 1). Find the fractions of the land used for vegetable plantation 2). If one wants to use - 3 gifts
Chad had 30 dollars to spend on 3 gifts. He spent 9 1/4 dollars on gift A and 3 4/5 dollars on gift B. How much money did he have left for gift C? - Multiply 17
Multiply each of the following fractions. Show your work and write your answer as a fraction in simplest form and as a mixed number. You may or may not use the mixed number boxes. Multiply the Fractions ; Result of Multiplying ; Simplest Form ; Mixed Numb - A high
A high school track team's long jump record is 23 feet, 11 3/4 inches. Paul's best long jump is 23 feet and 3 1/2 inches this year. If long jumps are measured to the nearest quarter inch, how much farther must jump to break the record? - Quarter of 60 grams
For a science experiment, students need to find 25% of 60 grams. John says " I can find this by calculation 1/4 of 60" Andre says: 25% of 60 means 25/100 times 60. Do you agree with either of them? Show your reasoning
- Bird houses
Lucy is in charge of a nature camp this summer. She will be making birdhouses with her campers. She has 5 boards that are each a meter long. Each birdhouse requires 1/4 meter of wood. How many birdhouses can she make out of her wood? - Cooking classes
Ms. Wright's two cooking classes are making a total of 60 sweet potato pies. Each pie requires 2 1/4 sweet potatoes. Her first class makes 1/3 of the total number of pies needed. Exactly how many sweet potatoes will her second class need in order to make - Three 232
Three out of eleven working mothers in a major US city have at least one child under the age of Five(5). If there are 2,250 mothers employed in that city, how many have at least one child under the age of five? (round to nearest whole number) - Online music sharing
Regina spent $45.50 over 6 1/2 months on music downloads. If she spent the same amount each month, how much did Regina spend per month on music downloads? Choose the equation that can be used to represent the situation. - Small and large bread
Kipton's aunt bakes a large loaf of bread and a small loaf of bread. She cuts each loaf into tenths and gives Kipton 2 tenths of each loaf to take home. Kipton writes the equation 2/10 + 2/10 = 4/10 to show the amount of bread he takes home. Explain Kipto
Kevin makes a list of the tasks he has to do after school and how long it will take him to do each task. Task Time; (hours) Read ; 1/3 Do homework ; 3/4 Play soccer ; 4/6 Practice piano ; 1/2 How long will it take Kevin to complete all of his tasks? Show Do you have homework that you need help solving? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.
